Special frontage assessment
123(1)The council may, on its own initiative, cause a notice of its intention to undertake a work to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper published or having general circulation in the municipality.
123(2)The notice shall be in the form prescribed by by-law.
123(3)Unless a majority of the owners of abutting parcels proposed to be specially assessed, having a value of at least one-half of all the abutting parcels proposed to be specially assessed, petition the council within two weeks of the last publication of the notice against proceeding with the proposed work, the council may by by-law passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the whole council at any time within three years
(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.
123(4)Where a sufficient petition is presented against a proposed work, except as provided in section 124, the council shall not within one year from the filing of such petition give a second notice of intention with respect to the same proposed work.
1966, c.20, s.123; 1971, c.50, s.16