7-12-4303. Notice of resolution of intent to create lighting district. (1) Upon having passed the resolution required by 7-12-4302, the council shall give notice of the passage of the resolution of intention. The notice of the passage of the resolution must be published for 5 days in a daily newspaper or in one issue of a weekly newspaper in the city or town or, in case no newspaper is published in the city or town, then by posting for 5 days in three public places in the city or town. A copy of the notice must be mailed to every person, firm, or corporation having property within the proposed district, as listed on the current property tax record, at the property owner's address as the address is listed on the current property tax record, on the same day that the notice is first published or posted.
     (2) The notice must describe the general character of the improvement proposed to be made, state the estimated cost of the improvement and the estimated cost of maintaining the lights and supplying the electrical current for the improvement and lights within the district for the first year, and designate the time when and the place where the council will hear and pass upon all protests that may be made against the making of the improvement or the creation of the district. The notice must refer to the resolution on file in the office of the city clerk for a description of the boundaries.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 143, L. 1915; re-en. Sec. 5261, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 143, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 5261, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-2247(2); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 127, L. 1997.