§ 19-61. Authority to levy; improvements enumerated.

The city in Broward County, Florida, by its city council hereby adopts and incorporates by reference Florida Statutes, Chapter 170, Supplemental Method of Making Local Improvements, as existing or may be amended. The council shall have the power and authority to cause local improvements to be constructed wholly or in part at the cost of the property owners benefitted thereby and shall satisfy the cost of said construction and improvements by levying and collecting special assessments for the following improvements.

(1)

To extend, enlarge or improve its sanitary sewer system by constructing additional sanitary sewerage mains, pumping stations, laterals, storm sewers and other drains and sewers and necessary appurtenances thereto;

(2)

To extend its waterworks systems into new territory and to improve the existing waterworks system in developed areas by the construction of additional water mains, pumps and waterlines and by the improvement to the existing waterworks system, including but not limited to repair and/or replacement of existing water mains, pumps and waterlines and the laying or relaying of same together with the necessary appurtenances thereto, either inside or outside of the corporate limits or partly inside and partly outside;

(3)

To pave, repave, grade, regrade, macadamize, remacadamize, hard-surface, improve, layout, open, widen, close, curb, extend, demolish, rebuild and otherwise improve streets, alleys, boulevards, avenues, lanes, sidewalks, including any bridges, culverts, fills, grades or other appurtenances which may constitute or form a part of same, or any parks, promenades, piers, wharves, docks, seawalls, adjacent or contiguous thereto; to build, demolish, rebuild or otherwise improve any bridges, grades, fills, culverts and appurtenances; and any one (1) or more of such purposes may be combined in the same improvement;

(4)

To drain, fill in and redrain waterfront property, swamps, marshes and overflowed lands for the purpose of protecting the health of the inhabitants of the city, rendering such lands usable and constructing bulkheads, promenades, streets, parking places and other improvements in connection therewith;

(5)

To fill unsanitary excavations and depressions, to remove dilapidated and unsightly buildings which constitute a nuisance or a menace to the health or safety of the inhabitants of the city;

(6)

To provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair, paving, repaving, hard surfacing, rehard surfacing, widening, guttering and draining of streets, boulevards and alleys and for grading, regrading, leveling, laying, relaying, paving, repaving, hard surfacing and rehard surfacing of sidewalks;

(7)

To order the construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, excavation, grading, stabilization and upgrading of greenbelts, swales, culverts, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, outfalls, canals, primary, secondary and tertiary drains, water bodies, marshlands and natural areas, all or part of a comprehensive stormwater management system, including the necessary appurtenances and structures thereto and including but not limited to dams, weirs and pumps;

(8)

To provide for the drainage and reclamation of wet, low or overflowed lands;

(9)

To provide for offstreet parking facilities, parking garages or similar facilities;

(10)

To provide for mass transportation systems; and

(11)

To provide for the payment of all or any part of the costs of any such improvements by levying and collecting special assessments on the abutting, adjoining, contiguous or other specially benefited property.

(Ord. No. 82-132, § 1, 7-27-82; Ord. No. 84-156, § 1, 8-13-84; Ord. No. 90-140, § 1, 7-16-90)