Section 32-11-660 - Assessment of public property(1) When the urban district, any public body, or the federal government (except the federal government in the absence of its consent by congress to assessment) owns any tract or holds the title to any tract not used as a street or other public right-of-way of the urban district or other public body, which if owned by a private person would be liable to assessment for benefits to pay for any project mentioned in this article, an assessment shall be made against such tract as though such tract were the property of a private person.(2) The urban district, the public body, or the federal government, in the case of such consent, shall pay the amount of each such assessment by the levy of taxes or from other funds available therefor.L. 69: p. 807, § 173. C.R.S. 1963: § 89-21-173.