5540 Utility Improvements Grounds of KWU & Sunrise AdditionORLIP;ANCE NO. 5540
(Published in the Salina Journal 1951)
AN ORLIP11NCE creating and defining certain lateral sanitary sewer districts in the City
of Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer Districts numbered 260 and
261, and providing for the construction of Lateral Sanitary Sewers in said Lateral
Sanitary Sewer Districts numbered 260 and 261, so created and providing for the pay-
ment of the cost thereof and for the levying of special assessments against the prop-
erty in said districts for the payment of the cost of such construction and for the
issuing of bonds to pay the cost thereof.
EE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas,
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 260. That there be and there is
hereby created Lateral Sanitary Sewer District in the City of Salina, Kansas, which small
be and it is hereby designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 260 and which
district shall include all of the following described property in the City of Salina,
Kansas, to -wit:
Benefit District Lateral 260 - All of Block 4, all of Block 6
and Lots 62, 64, 66 and 68 on Jewell Avenue in Addition to
Grounds of Kansas Wesleyan University to the City of Salina,
Kansas.
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereb 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 260 as created by Section 1 of this ordinance along the following course, to-Trit:
An 8 inch clay pipe sewer, beginning at an existing manhole
at the northeast corner of Lot 11, Block 3, Sunrise Addition,
thence in a southeasterly direction along right-of-way for
utilities to the north west corner of Lot 3, Block 4, Sunrise
Addition; thence south along right-of-way for utilities to the
southwest corner of Lot 31 Block 6, Sunrise Addition at which
location a manhole will be constructed which will be terminus
of Lateral Sewer 260.
Section 3, Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 261. 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 261 and which
district shall include all of the following described property in the City of Salina,
Kansas, to wit:
Benefit District Lateral 261 - Lots 8, 91 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18 and 19, all in Block 5, Sunrise Addition to the City
of Salina, Kansas.
Section 4. 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 261 as created by Section 3 of this ordinance along the following course,
to -wit:
An 8 inch clay pipe sewer, beginning at an existing manhole
at the northwest corner of Lot 7, Block 5, Sunrise Addition,
thence south along right-of-way for utilities 330 feet more
or less to thr_southwest corner of Lot 12, Block 51 Sunrise
Addition, at which point a manhole will be constructed which
will be terminus of Lateral 261.
Section 5. That the City Engineer shall on or before Larch 19th 1951,
prepare and file in the office of the City Clerk, plans and specifications for the con-
struction of the lateral sanitary sewers provided for in the preceding sections of this
ordinance which shall be of proper character to serve the property lying within the dis-
trict within which such sewers are to be constructed and shall on or before the same
date prepare and submit to the Board of Commissioners a detailed esti_:.ate under oath
of the cost thereof. That thereafter the City Clerk shall advertise or three consecu-
tive days in the official city paper for sealed proposals for the building and construc-
tion of such sewers 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
sewers to the lotiiest and best responsible bidder or bidders therefor, if there be any
whose bid does not exceed the estimated cost thereof, but said Board shall reserve the
right to reject any or all such proposals, and if no bid shall be received within such
estimate, theoard of Commissioners shall have the power to do such work and make such
improvements within the estimated cost thereof as provided by law.
Section 6. That for the cost of building and constructing such sewers, special assess-
ments shall be made for the full cost thereof on all lots and pieces of land within the
sewer districts within and for which such sewers shall be built, according to the appraised
value thereof, without regard to the improvements or buildings thereon.
Section 7. After the passage and publication of this ordinance, the Board of Com-
missioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers, who having taken an oath to
make a true and impartial appraisement of all lots and pieces of land 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 such districts
liable to assessment and taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the buildings
or im-
provements thereon, and after making such appraisements shall return to the Board of Com-
missioners of said city and said Board shill designate a time for holding a special meet-
ing of said Board for the purpose of hearing any complaints that may be made as to the
value of any lots or pieces of land appraised as aforesaid, of which special session due
notice shall be given in the official city paper, and 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 Ray be by the
paid person liable
therefor in four approximately equal annual installments but the owner of amy property
liable to such assessment may within thirty days from the date of ik determining
the amount
assessed against the property pay the sum in full and his property shall not be liable
for assessment 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 _s fixed.
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Sectyon 9. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements in this
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ordinance provided for, the Board of Comrv.ssioners are hereby authorized and directed
to issue bonds of the City of Salina in an amount not to exceed the cost of such improve -
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ments and to run for a period of four years and be payable in four approximately equal
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annual installments, together with interest not to exceed five per cent per annum, which
ibonds 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 and payable, the Board
of Commissioners shall apportion and assess against the lots or piece of land within the
taxing district of such i:.�provements, special assessments covering the cost of such
improvement and apportionment therein contained shall hold good for all of the install-
ments that are to be collected from the specific property chargeable with such improvements
such assessment and apportionment ordinance shall contain the total amount of tax appor-
tioned 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 other taxes are certified, certify to the
County Clerk of Saline County, Kansas, a full list of all property liable to 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 installments and interest on all
unpaid balances for one year at the rate of not to exceed five per cent per annum, on such
amount so certified, which shall be collected as othertaxex are collected.
Section 10. This ordinance stall take effect and be in force from and after its adop-
tion and publication once in the official city paper.
Introduced, February 26, 1951
(SEAL)
Passed, larch 5, 1951
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