Sec. 13a-83. Assessment of benefits by municipalities.
               	 		
      Sec. 13a-83. Assessment of benefits by municipalities. The proper authorities of 
any city or borough and the selectmen of any town, unless otherwise provided in its 
charter, may assess, or cause to be assessed, the benefits accruing to any person by the 
layout, grading or alteration of any highway therein, upon giving written notice to the 
parties to be benefited of the time and place of meeting therefor, and order such benefits 
to be paid by the parties assessed, respectively, to the town, city or borough, as the case 
may be, within such time as they appoint. Such benefits may be collected in the same 
manner as town taxes are collected.
      (1949 Rev., S. 2145; 1958 Rev., S. 13-29; 1959, P.A. 674, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 83.)
      History: 1959 act added towns to the purview of this section; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
      Landowner's special and local benefits from public improvements to be deducted from his damages. 23 C. 189; 32 C. 
475. Assessment for benefits must be joint or several as the landed interest assessed is joint or several. 60 C. 112. Does 
not apply to removal of grade crossing by order of railroad commissioners. 77 C. 500.
      Cited. 11 CS 429.