§ 36-9-39-18 — Sewage works adapted for receiving sewage from collateral sewers; assessments

Indiana § 36-9-39-18

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 9: TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
• Ch. 39: Barrett Law Funding for Municipal Sewers

Text

(a) The municipal works board shall make
a division of the costs of the sewage works under subsection (b) if the
municipal works board finds that a sewage works to be constructed or
an enlargement of sewage works already constructed, is intended and
adapted for the following:
(1) Use by abutting property owners along the line of the works.
(2) Receiving sewage from collateral sewers that have been or
may be constructed.
(b) If the conditions of subsection (a) are satisfied, the works board
shall make a division of the costs of the sewage works in the following
manner:
(1) That part of the cost that is equivalent to the cost of
construction of adequate local sewage works not adapted to
receive sewage from collateral sewers shall be primarily assessed
against the abutting property owners. The assessment shall be in
the same manner and to the same extent as assessments are
primarily made against property owners for local sewage works
under sections 15 through 17 of this chapter.
(2) The excess of cost above the cost described in subdivision (1)
shall be primarily assessed against each lot or parcel of land in the
district to be drained. The assessment shall be in the proportion
that the area of each lot or parcel bears to the total area of the
district, including abutting property owners and the owners not
situated on the line of the works.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.98-1993, SEC.10.