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ORDINANCE NUMBER 6491
(Published in The Salina Journal tvwyly�� 1960)
AN ORDINANCE creating and defining a certain lateral sanitary sewer district in the City of',
Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 426, and providing for',
the construction of a Lateral sanitary sewer in said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number',
426, 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 Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 426. 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 426, and which
district shall include all the following described property in the City of Salina, Kansas,
to -wit:
Benefit District:
Lots 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, East Gardens
Addition, City of Salina, Saline County, Kansas.
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereby ordered that an eight inch V. C. P.
Lateral Sanitary Suwer with all necessary connections manholes, flushing tanks and other
appurtenances be constructed and built in and to serve said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
Number 426 as created by Section 1 of this ordinance along the following course, to -wit:
An 8 inch clay pipe sewer beginning at an existing
manhole in Chester Avenue and the north right-of-
way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
(1) thence east to a point 20 feet west of the east
line of Francis Avenue,
(2) thence north 400 feet in Francis Avenue to a point
10 feet north of the south line of York Avenue,
(3) thence east in York Avenue to a point 5 feet
west of the west line of Ohio Street where a manhole
will be built which will be terminus of Lateral 426.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before the 15th day of November, 1960
prepare and file in the Office of the City Clerk, plans and specifications 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 paper 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 Commissioners
may let a contract for the building and construction of such sewer to the lowest and best
responsible bidder or bidders therefore, if, there be any whose bids do not exceed the
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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 improvement 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 thea;
appointment proceed to appraise all of the lots and pieces of land within the district liab:
to assessment and taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the buildings or improvements
thereon, and after making such appraisement shall return to the Board of Commissioners of
said City and said Board shall designate a time for a special meeting of said 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 paper, 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
to 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 assessmenrs 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 improvement, and to run for a period of ten years and be payable in ten approximately
equal annual installments together with interest not to exceed five per cent per annum which)
bonds shall be issued and payhble 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
improvement 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
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improvements; such assessments and apportionment ordinance shall contain the total amount
of tax apportioned to such tract, piece or parcel of land within the taxing district and
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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 improvement, 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 five per cent
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 paper.
Introduced: November 1, 1960
Passed: November 8, 1960
( SEAL)
Attest:
City Clerk
Mayor