If any provision of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provision or such other application of such provision which can be given effect without such provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this title are declared to be severable.
(Prior code App. A, § 160)
All objections not made within the time and manner provided in this title are waived.
(Prior code App. A, § 161)
All decisions and determinations of the Council, upon notice and hearing, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons entitled to appeal, as to all errors, informalities, omissions and irregularities which might have been avoided, or which might have been remedied during the progress of the proceedings, or which can be remedied, and as to illegalities not amounting to a want of due process of law.
(Prior code App. A, § 162)
The notice to pay assessments under the Street Opening Act of 1903, or Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and a notice of confirming assessment or reassessment under any other procedure in this title shall have like curative effect as the notice of award under the Improvement Act of 1911.
(Prior code App. A, § 163)
This title shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purpose. No error, irregularity, informality, omission or illegality, and no neglect or omission of any officer in any procedure taken under this title, which does not directly affect the jurisdiction of the legislative body to order the work or improvement, shall void or invalidate such proceeding or any assessment for the cost of any work or acquisition hereunder. The exclusive remedy of any person affected or aggrieved thereby shall be by appeal to the Council in accordance with the provision hereof.
(Prior code App. A, §164)
No step in any proceeding shall be invalidated or affected by any error or mistake or departure from the provisions of this title as to the officer or person posting or publishing or mailing, or procuring the publication or posting or mailing, of any notice, resolution, order or other matter when such notice is actually given for the time required.
(Prior code App. A, § 165)
No assessment, reassessment, supplemental assessment, warrant, diagram or bond, or any of their levy or issuance, and no proceedings for same, shall be held invalid by any court for any error, informality, omission, irregularity, illegality or other defect in the same, where the resolution of intention or notice of improvement have been actually published as provided in this title.
(Prior code App. A, § 166)
No proceedings shall be held to be invalid upon the ground that the property upon which the work or improvement or part thereof is to be or was done, had not been lawfully dedicated or acquired, provided the same shall have been lawfully dedicated or acquired or an order of immediate possession and use thereof shall have been obtained at any time before judgment is entered in any legal action.
(Prior code App. A, § 167)
No action, suit or proceedings to set aside, cancel, void, annul or correct any assessment or reassessment, or to review any of the proceedings, or to question the validity or to enjoin the collection of any assessments, supplemental assessments, reassessments, reapportionment of benefits or any modification made in regard to any thereof, or other determination made on notice and hearing, shall be maintained by any person unless such action, suit or proceedings have been commenced within 30 days after the acquisition or improvement had been ordered or such assessment had been confirmed or other action taken.
(Prior code App. A, § 168)
When bonds are to be issued pursuant to a bond plan other than one in which the bonds represent fixed amounts which are a lien on the properties assessed, no action, suit or proceeding to set aside, cancel or void the jurisdiction of the Council in said proceeding or to order the issuance of the bonds or to issue the bonds, or to levy any annual assessment to pay the principal and interest of the bonds, unless such suit, action or proceeding has been commenced within 30 days after the Council has ordered the acquisitions and improvements.
(Prior code App. A, § 169)
The City Council, at any time after the adoption of the resolution of intention, the proposed contractor, at any time after the award of the contract to him, or the proposed purchaser of the warrant or any bonds to be issued, at any time after the assignment of said warrant or award of said bonds to him, may bring an action in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County in which it is situated, to determine the validity of any such proceedings and of such proposed contract, or of the assessment or tax levied or to be levied, or of said bonds issued or to be issued.
(Prior code App. A, § 171)