5763 Utility Improvements - Grounds of KWUORDINANCE NUMBER
(Published in the Salina JournalC __- __, 1953)
AN ORDINANCE creating and defining a certain lateral sanitary sewer district in
the City of Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number
295, and providing for the construction of a lateral sanitary sewer in said
Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 295, 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 Commissionrrs of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer District 295• 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 295 and which district shall include all.the following described property
in the City of Salina, Kansas, to -wit=
All of the Replat of Block 3, Claflints Addition
to the Grounds of the Kansas Wes1pYan 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 295 as created by Section 1 of this ord-
inance along the following course, to wit:
An 8 inch clay pipe sewer beginning at an existing
manhole in the center line of Roach Street and the
center line of utility easement of Replat of Block
3, Claflints Addition to the Grounds of Kansas
Wesleyan University, City of Salina, Saline County,
Kansas; thence east in utility easement an approxi-
mate 600 feet, more or less, to a manhole to be
constructed, being the terminus of Lateral Sanitary
Sewer Number 295•
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before the 16th day of
March , 1953, prepare and file in the office of the City Clerk,
plans and specifications for the construction of the lateral sanitary sewer
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provided for in the preceding sections of this ordinance which shall be of the
proper character to serve the property lying within the district 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 budding 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 comtruction of such sewer to the lowest and best responsible
bidder or bidders thereforl if there be any whose bids do not exceed the esti-
mated cost thereof, but said Board shall reserve the right to reject any or
all such proposals, and ii no bid 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 cors tructing 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 improvements or buildings thereon.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinance, the Board
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of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers, who having taken
oath to make a true and impartial appraisement of all lots and pieces of land
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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 such district liable to assessment and taxation as
aforesaid, without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon, and after
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making such appraisements, shall return to the Board of k Commissioners of said
city and said Board shall designated 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
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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.
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Section 6. The special assessment herein provided for may be paid by the
person liable in four approximately equal annual installments bu t 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 shall not be liable for any assessments for the cost of such
improvements, and bonds as hereinafter provided for shall be issued in the
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
ordinance provided for, the Board of Commissioners may and are hereby authorized
and directed to issue improvement bonds of the City of Salim, Kansas, in an
amount not to exceed the cost of such improvements, and to run for a period of
four years and be payable in four approximately equal annual installments, togehher
with interest not to exceed five per cent per annum, which bonds shall be
issued and payable according to law; and for the purpose of paying the princiapal
and interest on said bonds as they severally become due and payable for 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
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from the specific property chargeable; such assessment and apportionment ord-
inance 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
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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 Mable for such
work and improvements, together with the respective amounts due on each of said
tracts, pieces or parcels of land, which amounts shall include the annual install-
ment 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 shall bv
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: March 2., 1953
Passed: March 9., 1953
Attest:
Cit Clerk
Mayor