8429 Utility ImprovementsORDINANCE NUMBER 8429
Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block 1, Wights Addition
to the City of Salina, Saline County, Kansas
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereby ordered than an eight inch
sanitary pipe sewer with all necessary connections, manholes, flushing tanks and
other appurtenances be constructed and built in and to serve said Lateral Sanitar
Sewer District Number 531 as created by Section 1 of this ordinance along the
following course, to -wit:
An eight inch (811) clay sewer pipe beginning at an
existing manhole located at the northeast corner of
Lot 6, Block 1, Wights Addition to the City of Salina,
Saline County, Kansas; thence running west along the
rear of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block 1, Wights
Addition a distance of Two Hundred Twenty-five feet
(2251) where a manhole will be built which will be
terminus of Lateral Sanitary Sewer 531.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before the 5th day of
May, 1975, prepare and file in the Office of the City Clerk, plans and specificatilons
for the construction of the Lateral Sanitary Sewer provided for in the preceding
sections of this ordinance which shall be of the proper character to serve the
property lying within the district for which such sewer is to be constructed and
shall on or before the same date prepare and submit to the Board of Commissioners
a detailed estimate, under oath, of the cost thereof. That thereafter the City
Clerk shall advertise for three consecutive days in the official city newspaper
for sealed proposals for the building and construction of such a sewer according
to such plans and specifications, which proposals shall be filed with the City
Clerk on or before the time fixed in such notice, at which time the Board of
(Published in The Salina Journal dpi i 2,,5 1975)
AN ORDINANCE CREATING AND DEFINING A CERTAIN LATERAL SANITARY SEWER
DISTRICT IN THE CITY OF SALINA, KANSAS, DESIGNATED AS LATERAL SANITARY SEWER
DISTRICT NUMBER 531, AND PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LATERAL SANITARY
SEWER IN SAID LATERAL SANITARY SEWER DISTRICT NUMBER 531, SO CREATED AND PROVIDING
FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE COST THEREOF AND FOR THE LEVYING OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
AGAINST THE PROPERTY IN SAID DISTRICT FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE COST OF SUCH
CONSTRUCTION AND FOR THE ISSUING OF BONDS TO PAY THE COST THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 531. That there be
and there is hereby created Lateral Sanitary Sewer District in the City of Salina,
Kansas, which shall be and it is hereby designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer
District Number 531, and which district shall include all the following described
property in the City of Salina, Kansas, to -wit:
Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Block 1, Wights Addition
to the City of Salina, Saline County, Kansas
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereby ordered than an eight inch
sanitary pipe sewer with all necessary connections, manholes, flushing tanks and
other appurtenances be constructed and built in and to serve said Lateral Sanitar
Sewer District Number 531 as created by Section 1 of this ordinance along the
following course, to -wit:
An eight inch (811) clay sewer pipe beginning at an
existing manhole located at the northeast corner of
Lot 6, Block 1, Wights Addition to the City of Salina,
Saline County, Kansas; thence running west along the
rear of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block 1, Wights
Addition a distance of Two Hundred Twenty-five feet
(2251) where a manhole will be built which will be
terminus of Lateral Sanitary Sewer 531.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before the 5th day of
May, 1975, prepare and file in the Office of the City Clerk, plans and specificatilons
for the construction of the Lateral Sanitary Sewer provided for in the preceding
sections of this ordinance which shall be of the proper character to serve the
property lying within the district for which such sewer is to be constructed and
shall on or before the same date prepare and submit to the Board of Commissioners
a detailed estimate, under oath, of the cost thereof. That thereafter the City
Clerk shall advertise for three consecutive days in the official city newspaper
for sealed proposals for the building and construction of such a sewer according
to such plans and specifications, which proposals shall be filed with the City
Clerk on or before the time fixed in such notice, at which time the Board of
Section 4. That for the cost of building and constructing such sewer,
special assessments shall be made for the full cost thereof on all lots and
pieces of land within and for which such sewer shall be built, according to the
appraised value thereof, without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinance, the
Board of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers, who after
having taken oath to make a true and impartial appraisement of all lots and
pieces of land liable to taxation for the cost of such improvements shall within
five days after having been notified of their appointment proceed to appraise
all of the lots and pieces of land within the district liable to assessments and
taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the building or improvements thereon,
after making such appraisement shall return to the Board of Commissioners of the
City and said Board shall designate a time for a special meeting of the Board
for the purpose of hearing any complaints that may be made as to the value of any
lot or piece of land appraised as aforesaid, of which special session due notice
shall be given in the official city newspaper, at which special session said
Board may alter any valuation of any lot or piece of land, if, in their opinion
the same has been appraised too high or too low.
Section 6. The special assessments herein provided for may be paid by
the person liable therefor in ten approximately equal installments, but the owner
of any property liable for such assessment may, within thirty days from the date
of determining the amount assessed against the property, pay the same in full,
and his property so paid on shall not be liable for any assessments for the cost
of such improvements, and bonds as hereinafter provided for shall be issued in
an amount of the cost of such improvements remaining unpaid at the end of thirty
days from the time such assessments are fixed.
Commissioners may let a contract for the building and construction of such sewer
to the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders therefor, if, there be any
whose bids do not exceed the estimated cost thereof, but said Board shall reserve
the right to reject any or all such proposals, and if no bids shall be received
within such estimate, the Board of Commissioners shall have the power to do such
work and make such improvements within the estimated cost thereof, as provided by
law.
Section 4. That for the cost of building and constructing such sewer,
special assessments shall be made for the full cost thereof on all lots and
pieces of land within and for which such sewer shall be built, according to the
appraised value thereof, without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinance, the
Board of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers, who after
having taken oath to make a true and impartial appraisement of all lots and
pieces of land liable to taxation for the cost of such improvements shall within
five days after having been notified of their appointment proceed to appraise
all of the lots and pieces of land within the district liable to assessments and
taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the building or improvements thereon,
after making such appraisement shall return to the Board of Commissioners of the
City and said Board shall designate a time for a special meeting of the Board
for the purpose of hearing any complaints that may be made as to the value of any
lot or piece of land appraised as aforesaid, of which special session due notice
shall be given in the official city newspaper, at which special session said
Board may alter any valuation of any lot or piece of land, if, in their opinion
the same has been appraised too high or too low.
Section 6. The special assessments herein provided for may be paid by
the person liable therefor in ten approximately equal installments, but the owner
of any property liable for such assessment may, within thirty days from the date
of determining the amount assessed against the property, pay the same in full,
and his property so paid on shall not be liable for any assessments for the cost
of such improvements, and bonds as hereinafter provided for shall be issued in
an amount of the cost of such improvements remaining unpaid at the end of thirty
days from the time such assessments are fixed.
Section 7. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements in
this ordinance provided for, the Board of Commissioners may and are hereby
authorized and directed to issue improvement bonds of the City of Salina, Kansas,
in an amount not to exceed the total cost of such improvements, and to run for a
period of ten years and be payable in ten approximately equal annual installments
together with interest not to exceed seven percent per annum which bonds shall be
issued and be payable according to law; and for the purpose of paying the
principal and interest on said bonds as they severally become due and payable
the Board of Commissioners shall apportion and assess against the lots and pieces
of land within the taxing district for such improvements, special assessments
covering the cost of such improvements and apportionment therein contained shall
hold good for all of the installments that are to be collected from the specific
property chargeable therefor with such improvements; such assessments and
apportionment ordinance shall contain the total amount of tax apportioned to
each tract, piece or parcel of land within the taxing district and shall state
the number of annual installments in which such tax is to be collected; and
thereafter the City Clerk shall annually, at the same time that other taxes are
certified, certify to the County Clerk of Saline County, Kansas, a full list of
all property liable for such work and improvements, together with the respective
numbered amounts due on each of said tracts, pieces or parcels of land, which
amounts shall include the annual installments and interest on all unpaid balances
for one year at the rate of not to exceed seven percent per annum on such amounts
so certified, which amounts shall be collected as other taxes are collected.
Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from
and after its adoption and publication once in the official city newspaper.
Introduced: April 14, 1975
Passed: April 21, 1975
W. M. Usher, Mayor
(SEAL)
Attest:
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D. L. Harrison, City Clerk