Sec. 17-194. - Assessments.

(a)

Required amount; computation. Whenever any sewer main shall be constructed, an assessment shall be made upon all estates abutting upon that portion of the street in which such sewer main shall be located at a rate of $5.75 for each front foot of such estates upon such streets, provided that where any estate is situated at the intersection of two streets or between two streets wherein such sewer mains are constructed, then 80 percent of the footage on that one of which such streets has the greater footage, shall be exempt from such assessment and if the footage is equal on both the streets, then 80 percent of the footage of either of the streets shall be exempt, except that in no case shall an exemption of more than 80 feet be allowed.

(b)

Procedure; payment. The director of public works shall make all assessments to be made under the authority of this article and shall make a report in writing to the city council of all such assessments, which assessments after being confirmed by the city council, shall be certified to the tax assessor by the city clerk, and the clerk shall also within ten days after such confirmation give notice to the owners of the estate so assessed of such assessment by advertisement in some public newspaper published in the city or in such other manner as the city council may direct. Whenever the sewer assessment, so certified, shall have been confirmed for at least 60 days, such assessments shall be effective and payable on December 15 next succeeding the aforesaid 60-day period. Unless the owner of any estate, within 30 days after the city clerk shall have given notice to the owners as specified, shall notify the city council in writing not to apportion the sewer assessment, the city council shall apportion it into ten equal parts and cause such apportionment to be certified to the assessor, and the assessor shall certify one of such parts to the tax collector for collection for each of the ten years next ensuing and shall add to each of such parts interest at the rate of four percent on the unpaid balance of the assessment beginning the second installment, provided that nothing in this section shall prevent any owner from paying in full the unpaid balance of the assessment plus the current interest. The sewer assessments shall be and remain a lien upon such land, shall draw interest from the time the bill for the first of the ten annual installments is sent out by the tax collector until the entire assessment shall have been paid and shall be collected in the same way as city taxes assessed upon land in the city.

(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 17-194)