(65 ILCS 5/9-2-73) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-73)
Sec. 9-2-73.
No special assessment or special tax shall be held invalid
because levied for work already done, if it appears that the work was done
under a contract which has been duly let and entered into pursuant to an
ordinance providing that such an improvement should be constructed and paid
for by special assessment or special tax, and that the work was done under
the direction of the board of local improvements and has been accepted by
that board. It shall not be a valid objection to the confirmation of this
new assessment that the original ordinance has been declared invalid or
that the improvement as actually constructed does not conform to the
description thereof as set forth in the original special assessment
ordinance, if the improvement so constructed is accepted by the board of
local improvements. The provisions of this section shall apply whenever the
prior ordinance is held insufficient or otherwise defective, invalid, or
void, so that the collection of the special assessment or special tax
therein provided for becomes impossible. In every such case, when such an
improvement has been so constructed and accepted, and the proceedings for
the confirmation and collection of the special assessment or special tax
are thus rendered unavailing, the corporate authorities shall pass a new
ordinance for the making and collection of a new special assessment or
special tax, and this new ordinance need not be presented by the board of
local improvements.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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