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AN ORDINANCE TO FUND FROM THE GENERAL LEVY THE STREET SYSTEM MAINTENANCE UTILITY, AMENDING ARTICLE XIII OF CHAPTER 45 OF THE DULUTH CITY CODE, 1959, AS AMENDED.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That Article XIII of Chapter 45 of the Duluth city code, 1959, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Article XIII. Street System Maintenance Utility.
Sec. 45-109. Policy and purpose.
The city council finds that all persons, businesses, institutions and organizations in the city benefit from the use of the street system across the entire city for the development and maintenance of economic, cultural and community vitality as well as for the general health, safety and welfare of the city's residents. The council further finds that the loss of the previous funding sources for street maintenance and reconstruction has had a significant adverse impact on the city's ability to maintain its street system at an acceptable level of repair. Therefore the city council has determined that, in order to provide a safe, well maintained street system which will promote the economic vitality of the city and the general health, safety and welfare of its residents, it is in the best interests of the city and its residents, businesses and institutions that the city create and operate a city-wide street system maintenance utility. The city council further has determined that the operation and maintenance of such a utility benefits each and every property within the city. The city council has therefore determined that it is fair, appropriate and reasonable that the costs of such operation be paid for on a fair and reasonable basis by all taxable of the property in the city so benefitted and that the costs thereof should be charged to and collected from all such benefitted properties.
Sec. 45-110. Definitions.
For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given them in this Section:
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