§ 154-167. Amount where sewer laid in street; right of abutting property owners to connect.  


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  • (a)

    If a sewer is constructed by or under the authority of the city in any street, except those sewers designated as outfall sewers, the cost thereof shall be assessed upon the property and estates respectively abutting on the street, on each side of the street in which the sewer is laid or constructed. The cost shall be calculated based on the time and materials required for the installation and inspection.

    (b)

    Each lot or parcel of property abutting on the sewer shall be assessed according to its frontage on the street. In consideration of the payment of the assessment, the owners of the property and estates shall have the right to connect their drains from the abutting property and estates for the discharge of sewage into the sewer upon payment of the rates for connection then in effect and subject to availability of sewer capacity and the terms and conditions set forth in this chapter.

    (c)

    When a property owner or lessee requests that the city construct a connection to an existing sewer, the charge for such connection shall be assessed at the rate established by ordinance.

(Code 1977, § 9-3160; Ord. No. 2005-01, § 14, 1-10-05)