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ARTICLE 2. GENERAL PROCEDURE 2.01. Maintenance Districts. Whenever the city council determines that the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any or all public improvements of a local nature have not been adequately financed and provided for, proceedings therefor may be undertaken pursuant to this ordinance. 2.02. Council Powers. The city council may, in its resolution declaring its intention to order work done or improvements made or by separate resolution, declare its intention to order that the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any or all public improvements of a local nature, including the cost of necessary repairs, replacements, fuel, power, electrical current, care, supervision, and any and all other items necessary for the proper maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed, either partly or wholly, upon such district as the city council shall determine will be benefited by the maintenance and operation of the public improvements proposed to be maintained; the amounts so assessed to be collected in the same manner and by the same officers as taxes for city purposes are collected. 2.03. Applicable General Law. When the city council has declared its intention pursuant to Section 2.02, the applicable provisions of Chapter 26 of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, excepting Sections 5850 to 5853, inclusive, shall apply. ARTICLE 3. ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR THE LEVY OF BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS 3.01. Purpose. The purpose of this article is to provide an alternative procedure by which the city council may provide for the payment of the whole or any part of the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any public improvements which are local in nature, payable from annual benefit assessments apportioned among the several lots or parcels of property within the maintenance district established therefor, the nature and formula or formulae for which is to -2- --.-.-