Owner
Any individual, partnership, company, corporation, association,
firm, organization, administration, department, institutional organization,
or any other group of individuals or any person or employee thereof
that owns, occupies, manages, or controls real property in the Village.
Village
The Incorporated Village of Sands Point.
If any Owner of real property located within the Village is
required by ordinance or general, special, or local law to make any
improvement or repair, perform any work, or do any act on such property
or on driveway aprons, paths, or public or private thoroughfares in
front of or abutting upon such property or property between the property
line and the gutter in the interest of the public safety, health,
comfort, and general welfare and such Owner shall fail to make the
improvement or to perform the work or act required, the Village Board
shall cause such improvement or repair, work, or act to be done on
such property or on driveway aprons, paths, or public or private thoroughfares
abutting upon such property or on property between the property line
and the gutter or a contract shall be awarded therefor by the Village
Board, and the cost of such improvement or repair, work, or act may
be levied and collected as provided herein.
If, because of circumstances arising out of a fire, flood, storm,
or other disaster, and in order to protect life or property, the Village
Board causes emergency action to be taken on the property of an Owner,
the cost of such improvement, repair, work, or act may be assessed,
levied, and collected as provided herein.
The Village Board shall meet at the time and place specified
in the notice and shall hear and determine all objections that shall
be made to such assessment, including the amount thereof, and shall
assess upon the real property the amount which it may deem just and
reasonable, not exceeding, in case of default, the amount stated in
the notice.
If the amount so assessed is not paid within 15 days after such
assessment, an action to recover the amount due may be maintained
by the Village, or a special warrant may be issued by the Village
Board for collection of such assessment, or the amount thereof may
be included in the next annual tax levy.
No action or proceeding to review an assessment made hereunder
may be maintained against the Village, its officers, or employees
more than 15 days after such assessment is made.
Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the financing
of unpaid assessments pursuant to the Local Finance Law.