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202.14 202.15 Subd. 3. Procedure for Assessment: Any special assessment levied under subdivision 2 above sha11 be payable in single installment or by up to ten (10) equal annual installments as the Council may provide. With this exception, Sections 202.10, 202.11 and 202.16 of this Chapter shall apply to assessments made under this Section. However, nothing sha11 prevent the property owner or other person served to pay the City directly such charges when due prior to the assessment herein being authorized and certified. Subd. 4. Issuance of Obligations: After a contract for any of the work enumerated in subdivision 2 of this Section has been let or the work commenced, the Council may issue obligations to defray flle expenses of any such work financed, in whole or in part, by special charges and assessments imposed upon benefited properiy under this Section. Section 202.19 of this Chapter sha11 apply to such obligations with the following modifications: a. Such obligations sha11 be payable not more than two (2) years from the date of issuance; b. The amount of such obligations issued at one time sha11 not exceed the cost of such work during the ensuing six (6) months as estimated by the Council; c. A separate improvement fund shall be set up for each of the enumerated services referred to in subdivision 2 and financed under this Section. Proceeds of special charges as well as special assessments and taxes sha11 be credited to such improvement fund. Any balance of the proceeds of any obligations remaining therein may be used to pay the cost, in whole or in part, of any other improvement instituted pursuant to this Chapter or may be transferred to the fund established under Section 203.02 of this Title. (1988 Code $26.14) 202.15: SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AGAINST PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENTAL i1NITS: Subd. 1. Authority to Assess: The City may levy special assessments against the properiy of a governmental unit benefited by an improvement to the same e�tent as if such properiy were privately owned, but no such assessments, except for storm sewers and drain systems, sha11 be levied against a governmental unit for properties used or to be used for highway rights of way. A"governmental unit" means a county, city, public corporation or a school district. If the amount of any such assessment, except one against properiy of the State, is not paid when due, it may be recovered in a civil action brought by the City against the governmental unit owning the properiy so assessed.