Authorizing the Board of Public Works to Require the Making of Private Connections with Sewer, Gas, Electric & Water Mains

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ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS TO REQUIRE THE MAKING OF PRIVATE CONNECTIONS WITH SEWER, GAS, ELECTRIC AND WATER MAINS IN ADVANCE OF PERMUMT BE IT ORbAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana: Section I - That whenever the Board of Publiv Works or the Park Board shall desire to improve any street, alley or other public place by paving the same and shall have adopted a resolution to that effect, the owners of the property abutting on such street, alley or public place are hereby required to make private connec- tions with the sewer, gas, electric and water mains on such street, alley or public place. Such Board shall cause plans and speci- fications to be prepared and placed on file with said Board showing the number and location of such service pipe or private connections which they may deem necessary to accomodate the abutting property an4 shall designate the material to be used and the manner of making such connections. Such owners of property are further hereby required to replace or put in repair all existing service connections for sewer, gas, electric and water upon proper written notice from the City Engineer. The Board adopting such resolution shall at once give notice by publication in a daily newspaper of the -City for two successive days to the owners of such abutting property to make such connections within twenty days from the last publications of such notice. Section II - On default of any of such owners to make any such oonnions, the said Board of Public Works is hereby authorized to cause such connections to be made, either by their own officers, agents,;employees, or by contract; Provided, however, that when in the opinion of the Board of Public Works, the making of oonn eotions with mains of any public utility shall be attended with danger, and that when other persons than such utility are unprepared to do such work with safety, then the Board may let such contract for making such connections to such utility for the actual cost of making the same. The cost of making such connections shall be a lien on the real estate of any such owners, and said Board shall cause such cost to be assessed against such real estate. That the .Board shall after the.completion of such work, cause an assessment roll to be prepared which shall have set opposite each name and description of property the assessment against each piece of property. And the Board shall cause one notice of a hearing upon such assessment roll to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City stating that on a day named therein the Board will hear all persons whose lands are affected by such assessments; the notice shall also give the name and terminal of the street in which such connections were made. And on the day fixed the Board shall re- ceive and hear- =all remonstrances, and shall confirm or modify in whole or in part such assessments. And thereafter a copy of such roll shall be filed with the finance department and the County Treasurer, acting as City Treasurer, shall receive and collect such assessments. Such assessment shall be payable on or before thirty days after the adoption of such assessment roll, and after which same shall be delinquent, and the same shall be foreclosed by the City Attorney, or by the attorney representing the person making such connections, in the same manner as liens for street assess-