Changes to Existing Law

Annual front foot assessment for maintenance and repairs. The township board of supervisors or, in the case of any township which is no longer organized, the board of county commissioners, prior to the assessment of real property within the township, or unorganized township, for the next fiscal year, may levy annually for the purpose of maintaining or repairing street surfaces, whether of a permanent type or not, a special front foot assessment not to exceed two four dollars per front foot upon the real property fronting and abutting the situated within three hundred feet of an asphalt roadway and not to exceed two dollars per front foot upon the real property situated within three hundred feet of a non-asphalt roadway. Such assessment shall be apportioned on a front foot basis and shall be levied pursuant to § 31-13-52. If the board of county commissioners is levying a special assessment on real property pursuant to this section, the board of county commissioners shall perform the duties, as applicable, that are required of the township board of supervisors pursuant to §§ 31-13- 32 to 31-13-54, inclusive. 18