Chapter 3
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES

Sections:

12-3.01    Acquisitions.

12-3.02    Improvements.

12-3.01 Acquisitions.

“Incidental expenses”, when referring to proceeding for an acquisition, shall mean and shall include:

(a)    The amounts awarded to the defendants by the interlocutory judgments;

(b)    The costs of the defendants;

(c)    The compensation and expenses of the referees as allowed by court;

(d)    All other costs of the plaintiff in such action and expenses incurred by it in the trial thereof, including the compensation paid expert appraiser and witnesses;

(e)    All expenses necessarily incurred in connection with such proceedings for the publication, mailing, and posting of resolutions, notices, and orders in any of the proceedings;

(f)    All expenses incurred for maps, plots, surveys, searches, and certificates of the title to the property to be acquired;

(g)    The compensation of the attorney;

(h)    The compensation of the engineer;

(i)    The clerical, stenographic, and printing expenses incident to the actions;

(j)    The estimated cost of preparing and selling the bonds; and

(k)    Any other expenses incurred by authority of this Code or incidental to the completion of the acquisition in the manner herein specified.

(§ 1, Ord. 339 C-M, eff. November 7, 1974)

12-3.02 Improvements.

“Incidental expenses”, when referring to proceedings for an improvement, shall be deemed to mean and shall include all expenses necessarily incurred in the proceedings:

(a)    For the publication, mailing, and posting of resolutions, notices, and orders in any such proceedings;

(b)    The compensation of the attorneys;

(c)    The compensation of the superintendent of work;

(d)    The compensation of the engineers;

(e)    The estimated cost of preparing the bonds; and

(f)    Any other expenses incurred by authority of this Code or incidental to the completion of the improvement in the manner herein specified.

(§ 1, Ord. 339 C-M, eff. November 7, 1974)