Special frontage assessment
122(1)A work payable in whole or in part by special frontage assessment may be undertaken pursuant to petition or notice as hereinafter provided.
122(2)Upon presentation of a petition to the council praying that a work be undertaken, signed by at least two-thirds in number of the owners of the abutting parcels proposed to be specially assessed, and having a value of at least one-half of all such abutting parcels, the council may take all necessary steps to undertake such work and by by-law passed on the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the whole council
(a)
authorize and direct the undertaking of such work, and
(b)
order that the cost thereof or such portion of the cost as may be fixed by a general by-law shall be raised by special frontage assessment.
122(3)The council may at any time within three years of the presentation of a petition undertake either the whole or part of the work sought.
122(4)The council may not undertake a part only of the work sought unless the petition is sufficient with respect to such part.
1966, c.20, s.122; 1971, c.50, s.15; 2003, c.27, s.53