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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />..$29.011 LOCAL L\1PROVEMENfS. SPECIAL ASSESSl\ffi."'ITS <br /> <br />62S <br /> <br />the movement, safety. security, convenience and enjoyment of pedestrians and benefit the <br />city and adjoining properties. <br />Subd. I I. Special lighting system. "Special lighting system'" means lights or light dis- <br />plays of any type located within or without the public right of way. <br />Subd. 12. Acquire. "Acquire'" includes, but is not limited to, the obtaining by purchase, <br />condemnation, or leasing rights or interests in the areas above or below the surface of the <br />ground of real property or structures or improvements thereon. <br />Subd. 13. Public mall, plaza, or courtyard. "Public mall. plaza. or courtyard'" means <br />any wholly or partly opened or enclosed public area adjacent to or attached to a wall, fence, <br />commercial structure, hotel, or any other building and designed as a place for passive recre- <br />ation, public entertainment, exhibition and education, ot a pedestrian walk. <br />Subd. 14. Fire protection system. "Fire protection system'" means pipes. standpipes, <br />sprinklers, control systems and other devices and equipment installed in or outside a building <br />for the primary purpose of eliminating or reducing the spread offire in the building or provid- <br />ing for safe evacuation of the building, whether the devices and equipment are publicly or <br />privately owned. <br />Subd. 15. Highway sound barriers. "Highway sound barriers" means sound abate- <br />ment walls erected along highways to reduce noise levels attributable to vehicular traffic. <br />Subd. 16. On-site water contaminant improvements. "On-site water contaminant <br />improvemc;nts" means pipes, wells, and other devices and equipment installed in or outside a <br />building for the primary purpose of eliminating water contamination caused by lead or other <br />toxic or health threatening substances in the water, whether the improvements so ins~alled <br />are publicly or pri vatel y owned. <br />History: 1953 c 398 s /; 1961 c 338 s 1; 1969 c 741 s 1-3; 1971 c 617 s 1-4; 1973 <br />c 123 art 5 s 7; /973 c 636 s 1; 1973 c 702 s 22; 1974 c 233 s 1; 1976 c 147 s 1; 1978 c <br />634 s 1.2; /979 c 330 s /; /983 c 9 s 1; /984 c 478 s 1; 1984 c 591 s 1; 1986 c 315 s 1; <br />1987c/38s /; /988c 564 .I' 1; 1994c6/4s5 <br /> <br />429.02 [Repealed. 1953 c 398 s J3 subd I] <br /> <br />429.021 LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS, COUNCIL POWERS. <br />Subdivision I. Improvements authorized. The council of a municipality shall have <br />power to make thej<J!lowing improvements: <br />(1) To acquire, open, and widen any street, and to improve the same by constructing, <br />reconstructing, and maintaining sidewalks, pavement, gutters, curbs, and vehicle parki?g <br />strips of any material. or by grading, graveling, oiling, or otherv./ise improving the same,In- <br />c1uding the beautification thereof and including storm sewers or other street drainage and <br />connections from sewer, water, or similar mains to curb lines. <br />(2) To acquire, develop, construct, reconstruct. extend. and maintain storm and sanitary <br />sewers and systems. including oUllets. holding areas and ponds. treatment plants, pumps, lift <br />stations, setvice connections, and other appurtenances of asewer system, within and without <br />the corporalc limits. <br />(3) To construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain steam heating mains. <br />(4) To install. replace. extend, and maintain street lights and street lighting systems and <br />special lighting systems. <br />(5) To acquire, improve, construct, reconstruct, extend. and maintain water works sys- <br />tems. including mains, valves, hydrants, service connections, wells, pumps. reservOlrs. <br />tanks, treatment plants, and other appurtenances of a waterworks system. within and without <br />the corporate limits. <br />(6) To acquire, improve and equip parks. open space areas, playgrounds, and recreation- <br />al facilities within or without the corporate limits. <br />(7) To plan.t trees on streets and provide for their trimming, care., and removal. <br />~ (8) To abate nuisances and to drain swamps, marshes. and ponds on public or private <br />property and to ftll the same. <br />(9) To construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain dikes and other flood control wades. <br /> <br />629 <br /> <br />(10) To construct. recons <br />(II) To acquire. construe <br />promote a pedestrian skyway' <br />suant to section .+19.031. sub<. <br />(12) To acquire. construe <br />ground pedestrian concourses <br />(13) To acquire, construe <br />lic malls, plazas or courtyard' <br />(14) To construct. recon' <br />(15) To construct. recon; <br />tion systems in existing buildi <br />division 3. <br />(16) To acquire. constru. <br />sound barriers. <br />(17) To improve. eonstn <br />tion facilities owned by a mlJ <br />Subd. 2. Combiningim' <br />more types of improvement i <br />cluded in one proceeding an, <br />Subd. 3. Relation to ch <br />provement is defrayed by spe <br />be followed unless the counci <br />ter does not prescribe the pr< <br />ments financed without the l <br />If the council detennim <br />such provisions shall be dee <br />ments inform property owne <br />to appeal the assessments to <br />the provisions of sections 43 <br />established pursuant thereto <br />Charter provisions shal <br />make any improvement, it sl <br />of the work done by day labc <br />one year after the adoption, <br />time limit is specifically sta <br />History: /953 c 398 s <br />s 2; 1974 c3/4 s 1; 1976c <br />c548 .4; 1984 c 582 s 3; 1 <br /> <br />429.03 [Repealed, 1953 c 3 <br /> <br />429.031 PRELIMINARY <br />Subdivision I. Prepst <br />'awards a contract for an imp <br />ity may assess any portion <br />agreement with the state or <br />improvement. the council s' <br />ing two publications in the n <br />general nature of the impro' <br />.The two publications must <br />the second publication. Not <br />also be mailed to the owner <br />to give mailed notice or any <br />purpose of giving mailed r. <br />. COunty auditor or, in any co <br />- .the records of ,he county tr <br />