If, after the final settlement with the contractor for any improvement and after full payment of all vouchers or bonds issued on account of that improvement, there is any surplus remaining in the special assessment above the specified payments and above the amount necessary for the payment of interest on these vouchers or bonds, the proper authorities of the county shall declare at once a rebate upon each lot, block, tract or parcel of land assessed, of its pro rata proportion of that surplus. Such rebate shall be paid to the owner of record of each such lot, block, tract or parcel at the time of the declaration of such rebate. The Committee shall keep and exhibit publicly in its office, an index of all warrants upon which rebates are due and payable and upon proper proof, the warrants shall be repaid to the persons entitled thereto.
55 ILCS 5/5-32058