§ 105. Improvements defined; special assessments authorized.

The city commission is hereby authorized, by resolution to regulate, provide for and require the opening, widening, grading extending and improving the streets, avenues, parks and other public places, and the construction, repair and maintenance of sidewalks, street pavements, curbs and street lights; the draining, dredging and filling in of low or marshy places, dangerous to public health; the cleaning up, clearing, underbrushing and putting into proper condition of places requiring such work to be done to promote the public welfare or to protect adjacent property against the danger of fire, breeding of mosquitoes and harboring snakes, etc.; to construct and maintain water mains, sewers and drains; and may by resolution provide for the payment of cost of the same, in whole or in part by special assessment against the property abutting or benefited or the property cleaned up, cleared, underbrushed, drained, dredged or filled in and may by resolution provide for the making of the assessment a lien against the property so benefited, cleaned up, cleared, underbrushed, drained, dredged or filled in. The city commission shall have power by resolution to provide for the levying and collection of a frontage tax for water and sewer mains based upon the front footage of the property bounding or abutting upon the improvement.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 99-477, § 1)