§ 3. Local Improvements Assessed.

At any time within three (3) months after any park, street, highway, alley or other way, ditch, drain or gutter is laid out, opened, altered, widened, graded, paved, curbed, extended, dug, constructed or discontinued in the City of Orlando, when in the opinion of the City Council any real estate shall receive any benefit and advantage therefrom beyond the general advantage to all real estate in the City, the City Council may adjudge and may assess on such real estate a proportionate share of the expense of the said improvement, but in no case shall such assessments exceed one-half (½) of the amount of such expense, the balance to be borne by the general tax or by bonds issued for the purpose according to law.

But the City Council may assess up to one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of such improvement upon the abutting real estate by ordinance published and adopted as provided by law or whenever the owners of fifty-one percent (51%) of the front footage of the abutting real estate shall petition for such improvement.

As soon as practicable after making the assessments, which shall be forthwith entered on the minutes, the City Council shall cause a notice of such assessments to be printed in some newspaper published in the said City, with a description of the real estate assessed sufficient to identify it, but the names of the owners need not be given therein. Such notice shall fix a place, and a day and hour not less than ten (10) days from the date of publication at which the City Council will hear any complaints which the owner or other person interested in any real estate assessed, may wish to make against the assessment thereon. If there be no complaint, the assessments as originally made shall stand confirmed at the adjournment of said meeting, but if any corrections be made upon complaint, the assessments as corrected shall then stand confirmed.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 7210(1915), § 1; Laws of Fla. ch. 26090(1949), § 1; Ord. of 4-14-1975, § 4)