The procedure for levying, collecting, and enforcing special assessments to be charged against real property for public improvements or other services shall be governed by ordinance.
The procedure for making, altering, vacating, or abandoning a public improvement shall be governed by general ordinance, or, to the extent not so governed, by the applicable general laws of the state. Action on any proposed public improvement, except a sidewalk or except an improvement unanimously declared by the council to be needed at once because of an emergency, shall be suspended for six months upon a remonstrance thereto by the owners of two-thirds of the property to be specially assessed therefor. For the purpose of this section "owner" shall mean the record holder of legal title to the land, as shown on the current county assessment roll, except that if there is a purchaser of the land according to a recorded land sale contract or according to a verified writing by the record holder of legal title to the land filed with the city manager or manager's designee, the said purchaser shall be deemed the "owner."