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Article I. General Provisions and Assessments
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For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

“Council” means the City Council of Millersburg, Oregon.

“Local improvement” means:

(1) The grading, graveling, paving or other surfacing of any street, or opening, laying out, widening, extending, altering, changing the grade of or constructing any street;

(2) The construction or reconstruction of sidewalks;

(3) The installation of ornamental street lights;

(4) The installation of underground wiring or related equipment;

(5) The reconstruction or repair of any street improvement mentioned in this section;

(6) The construction, reconstruction or repair of any sanitary or storm sewer or water main;

(7) The acquisition, establishment, construction or reconstruction of any off-street motor vehicle parking facility;

(8) The construction, reconstruction or repair of any flood control dike or dam;

(9) The construction, reconstruction, installation and equipping of a park, playground or neighborhood recreation facility; and/or

(10) Any other local improvement for which an assessment may be made on the property specially benefitted.

“Lot” means lot, block or parcel of land.

“Owner” means the owner of the title to real property or the contract purchaser of real property, of record as shown on the last available complete assessment roll in the office of the County Assessor.

“Real property”:

(1) May be described by giving the subdivision according to the United States survey when coincident with the boundaries thereof, or by lots, blocks and addition names, or by giving boundaries thereof by metes and bounds or by reference to the book and page of any public record of the county where the description may be found, or by designation of tax lot number referring to a record kept by the assessor of descriptions of real properties of the county, which record shall constitute a public record, or in such other manner as to cause the description to be capable of being made certain. Initial letters, abbreviations, figures, fractions and exponents, to designate the township, range, section or part of a section, or the number of any lot or block or part thereof, or any distance, course, bearing or direction, may be employed in any such description of real property.

(2) If the owner of any land is unknown such land may be assessed to “unknown owner” or “unknown owners.” If the property is correctly described, no assessment shall be invalidated by a mistake in the name of the owner of the real property assessed or by the omission of the name of the owner or the entry of a name other than that of the true owner. Where the name of the true owner, or the owner of record, of any parcel of real property is given, the assessment shall not be held invalid on account of any error or irregularity in the description if the description would be sufficient in a deed of conveyance from the owner, or is such that, in a suit to enforce a contract to convey, employing such description a court of equity would hold it to be good and sufficient.

(3) Any description of real property which conforms substantially to the requirements of this section shall be a sufficient description in all proceedings of assessment for a special improvement district, foreclosure and sale of delinquent assessments, and in any other proceeding related to or connected with levying, collecting and enforcing special assessments for special benefits to such property.

“Recorder” means Clerk and Recorder. (Ord. 22 § 1, passed 12-14-1976; Code 2014 § 34.15)