§ 36-9-9-13 — Additional hours of lighting; petitions; assessment of costs

Indiana § 36-9-9-13

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 9: TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
• Ch. 9: Municipal Street Lights

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(a) Whenever:
(1) a lighting service has been established in accordance with this
chapter or under another contract or arrangement; and
(2) at least sixty percent (60%) of the property owners upon one
(1) side of the street on a city block or blocks lighted by the
service file with the municipal works board their petition
requesting that the lighting service be maintained on that side of
the street in the block or blocks each night for a designated
number of hours in addition to the number of hours of service
prescribed by the current contract, arrangement, or plans and
specifications;
the works board shall grant the petition. The cost of the additional
lighting shall be charged to and assessed against all of the lots or
parcels of real property on the side of the street and on the city block
or blocks on which additional lighting service is maintained.
(b) All proceedings for the establishment of additional service, the
payments to the utility for additional service, and the making and
collection of assessments and liens for additional service are governed
by this chapter in the same manner as other proceedings, payments,
assessments and liens.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
19-5-24-13.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.82.