§ 134-27. Authority of council for improvements not petitioned for.

(a)

The council may cause improvements to be made, including paving or surfacing, sanitary sewers, sidewalks, curbs, curbs and gutters and driveways, to any one or more streets, alleys or public ways, including those designated, accepted or otherwise created, anywhere within the corporate limits of the city and assess the full cost of these improvements upon the real property abutting on each side of the street, alley or public way so improved. The improvements can be caused to be made by the council solely within its discretion and in the absence of a petition from abutting property owners for the improvements.

(b)

The chief financial officer is authorized to permit deferred or installment payments of assessments and liens by the persons owning and living on property abutting those streets where improvements are made when financial circumstances of all or certain of those persons invite relief. Determination of eligibility for the deferred or installment payments shall be in accordance with standards and guidelines set forth in this section and subject to amendment by the council.

(c)

The chief financial officer is authorized, upon council authorization for the work, to accept application and payment from property owners assessed for those improvements and to permit deferred or installment payments by an owner or occupier of property abutting the street, public alley or public way.

(Code 1977, § 9-3055(a)—(c))