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ORDINANCE NUMBER 5938
(Published in the Salina Journal.��` 1955)
AN ORDINANCE creating and defining a certain lateral sanitary sewer district in the City of
Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 314 and providing for
the construction of a lateral sanitary sewer in said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number
314, 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 issueing 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 314. 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 314 and
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which district shall include all the following described property :in the City of Salina,
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Kansas, to -wit:
Benefit District: All of Block 6 of zhe Replat
of Blocks 6 and 8, Claflins Addition to the
Grounds of Kansas Wesleyan University, 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 sewer with all necessary connections, manholes, flushing tanks and other
appurtenances be constructed and built in and to serve said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
Number 31.E as created by Section 1 of this ordinance along the following course, to -wit:
An 8" clay pipe sewer beginning at an existing
manhole in the center of Ohio Street and on the
center line of easement for utilities in Block
6 of the Replat of Blocks 6 and 8, Claflin
Addition to the Grounds of Kansas Wesleyan Un-
iversity, thence west along center line of said
easement 610 feet to a manhole to be constructed
which will be terminus of Lateral 314.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before March 8th , 1955, 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 proceeding 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 there-
after the City Clerk shall advertise for three consecutive days in 'the official city paper
for sealed proposals for the building and construction of such 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 estimated cost thereof, but said Board
shall reserve the right to reject any or all such proposals, and if no bids shall be rectived
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 construction of 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 ui ltt'� according to the appraised balue thereof, without regard
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to the buildings or mprovements tYlereon.
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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
jmake 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
,appointments proceed to appraise all of the lots and pieces of land within the district liable,
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Ito assessment and taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the buildings or improvements
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'thereon, and after makeing such appraisements, 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 of-
ficial city paper, at which special session said Board may alter any valuation of any lot or
piece of land, if, in theik opinion, the same has been appraised too high or too low.
Section 6. The special assessment herein provided for may be paid by the person
liable therfore in four approximately equal annual installments but the owner of any property
liable to such assessment may within thirty days from the date of determining the amount as-
sessed 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 pro-
vided for shall beissued inan amount of the cost of such improvements remaining unpaid at the
end of thirty days from the time such assessment is fixed.
Section 7. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements in this ordin-
ance provided for, the Board of Commissioners may and are hereby authorized and directed to
issue improvement bonds of the City of Salina, Kansas, on an amount not to exceed the total
cost of such improvement, and to run for a period of four years and be payable in four approx-
imately equal annual installments, together with interest not to exceed five per cent per an-
num, which bonds shall be issued and payable according to law; and for the purpose of paying,
the principal and interest on said bonds as they severally become due andpayable the Board of
,ommissioners shall approtion and assess against the lots and pieces of land within the taxing j
listrict of 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
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collected from the specific property chargeable therfore, with such improvements; such asses-
�ment and approtionment ordinance shall contain the total amount of tax apportioned to such
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tract, piece or parcel of land within the taxing district and shall state the number of an nuall
.nstallments in which such tax is to be collected; and thereafter the City Clerkshall annually
it the same time that other taxes are certified, certify to the Coun:,y Clerk of Saline County, j
;ansas, a full list of all property liable for such work and improvement, together with the
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•espective numbered amounts due on each of s&i.d tracts, pieces or parcels of land, which I
Lmounts shall include the annual installment and interest on all unpaid balances for one year
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Lt the rate of not to exceed five per cent per annum on such amounts so certified, which
mounts shall be collected as other taxes are collected.
Section $. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its
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ublication once in the official city paper J
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Introduced: February 15, 1955
Passed: March 1, 1955
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Acting Mayor