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Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana
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Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend,
Approved and signed by me
Clerk
of Common Council
Clerk
Mayor
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-
ments are foreclosed, as provided in section 8714 of Burns Revised
Statutes of 1914,
Section III That all proceedings heretofore had and begun by
e Board of Public Works of this city for requiring or making
of any of such connections, are hereby ratified.$ confirmed and
approved.
Section iv -
the That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect
wafter its passage and legal publication and signature by
Mayor •
Section V - That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in so far
as they conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed.
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Ist & 2nd READING / 7 ' 9 -
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE /-2-) 4- 3 ^�
PUBLIC HEARING
3rd READING
NOT APPROVED
REFERRED
PASSED