§ 19-109 — SAME - ERRORS; CORRECTIONS; REASSESSMENTS

SEC. 19-109. SAME - ERRORS; CORRECTIONS; REASSESSMENTS.

No error in any proceeding under this article, or in the description of property, or in the name of its owner, shall invalidate an assessment, which shall, nevertheless, be in effect as against the real and true owner and his property. Whenever the city council or special commissioners are advised of such error, they shall correct the same, and shall at the request of any interested party reassess any owner of property erroneously assessed, after lawful notice and hearing and in accordance with benefits as provided in this article as to original assessments, and may fix the time and terms of payment of the sums so reassessed, and issue assignable certificates evidencing the same as provided in this article as to original assessments. The right to make such reassessments shall continue until the expiration of 15 years from the date of the ordinance making the original assessment. But if the same shall have been resisted or brought in question in any action of law, the time consumed in such action shall be excluded in computing such term of 15 years. In making such reassessments it shall not be necessary to do any act, or take any step, or again perform any prerequisite already legally done or performed with reference to the original assessment, but the city council may in its discretion proceed without again taking steps already validly taken or performed; provided, that no reassessment shall be made until after notice and hearing and in accordance with benefits, as provided in this article. (Code 1941, Art. 128-9)