5954 Utility Imp - Claflin Addi
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ORDINANCE NUMBER 5954
(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 316 and providing
for the construction of a lateral sanitary sewer in said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
Number 316, so created, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof and for the levy-
ing 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 316. 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 316 and
which district shall include all the following described property in the City of Salina,
Kansas, to -wit:
Benefit District; All of Block 8 of the Replat of
Blocksan6— d-8� Claflin 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.
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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 316 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 the center of Chio Street and on the
center line of easement for utilities in Block 8
of the Replat of Blocks 6 and 8, Claflin Addition
to the Grounds of Kansas Wesleyan University,
thence west along center line of said easement 610
feet to a manhole to be constructed which will be
terminus to Lateral 316.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before May 10th. 1955, pre-
pare 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 sub-
mit 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 proposls shall be filed with City Clerk on or before
thetime 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 exceedthe 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.
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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 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 beennotified of their
appointments proceed to appraise all of the lots and pieces of land within the district
liable to assessment and taxation as aforesaid, without the regard to the buildings or im-
provements thereon, and after making 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 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 assessment herein provided for may be paid by the person
liable therefore in four approximately equal annual installments but the owner of any
property liable to such assessment may within thirty days from the date of determning 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 re-
maining 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 ordinance
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
approximately equal annual installments, together with interest not to exceed five per cent
per annum, which bonds shall be issuedand payable according to law; and for the purpose
of paying the principal and interest on said bonds as they severally become due and pay-
able the Board. of Commissioners shall apportion and assess against the lots and pieces of
land within the taxing district 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 collected from the specific property chargeable therfore, with
such improvements; such assessment and apportionment ordinance shall contain the total
amount of tax apportioned to such 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 improvement, together with the respective numbered amounts due on each
lof said tracts.,pieces or parcels of land,, which amounts shall include the annual install -
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Iments 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 force from and after its
:publication once in the official city paper.
Introduced:_April 262 1955
Passed: may 3, 1955
Acting Mayor
(SEAL)
Attest:
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City Clerk
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