Jackson v. Board of Education

The authority to levy an assessment upon abutting property to pay for street improvements in a municipality is found in Section 3812 of the General Code, and no other author^ exists. That section provides, in part, as follows: “The council of any municipal corporation may assess upon the abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited lots or lands in the corporation, any part of the entire cost and expense connected with the improvement of any street, * * * by * * * paving, # * * which the council may declare conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare, by any of…