249.939. Plans, specification and assessment role filed with city or county clerk--notice--publication, content--hearing to be held--notice mailed to assessed property owners. - Missouri Statutes

Plans, specification and assessment role filed with city or countyclerk--notice--publication, content--hearing to be held--noticemailed to assessed property owners.

249.939. The plans and specifications for the improvement and theproposed assessment roll shall be filed with the city or county clerk andshall be open for public inspection. Such clerk shall thereupon, at thedirection of the governing body of the city or county, publish notice thatthe governing body will conduct a hearing to consider the proposedimprovement and proposed assessments. Such notice shall be published in anewspaper of general circulation at least once, not more than twenty daysand not less than ten days before the hearing, and shall state the projectname for the improvement, the date, time and place of such hearing, thegeneral nature of the improvement, the revised estimated cost or, ifavailable, the final cost of the improvement, the boundaries of the sewageor storm water facility improvement district to be assessed, and thatwritten or oral objections will be considered at the hearing. At the sametime, the city or county clerk shall mail to the owners of record of theproperty made liable to pay the assessments, at their last knownpost-office address, a notice of the hearing and a statement of the costproposed to be assessed against the property so owned and assessed. Thefailure of any owner to receive such notice shall not invalidate theproceedings.

(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 13 subsec. 2)