SEC. 9-161. PROTESTS:
Objections may be made to ordering improvements or acquisitions, to grades, to an assessment, to the extent of the district, to any supplemental assessment or reassessment to the legality of any act or proceedings, to changes, or to any part of any thereof.
SEC. 9-162. FORM:
Protests shall be in writing, signed by the protestant, contain a description of the property owned by him sufficient to identify same, and state his interest therein and the grounds of protest, and be filed with the City Clerk at or before the hour set for hearing thereon. The Clerk shall endorse thereon the day and hour of filing.
SEC. 9-163. LEGALITY:
Objections to legality shall specify the illegality claimed and no other illegalities need be considered.
SEC. 9-164. MAJORITY PROTESTS:
The Council, by the affirmative vote of four-fifths of its members, may find that the public necessity requires the acquisition or improvement and overrule protests by the owners of more than half the area to be assessed, provided that proceedings have been had as provided in Article 1 of Division 5 of this Code, or its application is avoided by petition or otherwise.
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