Whenever an ordinance is hereafter passed by the city council for the filling, grading, curbing and paving of any street, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to ascertain whether the street or streets upon which such improvement is ordered contains a sufficient number of houses to pay a permanent annual revenue to the city of seven percent of the estimated cost of laying water main on such street or streets, and if the commissioner finds that such water main will pay such revenue to the city, he shall at once notify the city council as hereinafter provided.
(Prior code § 185-18; Amend Coun. J. 12-4-02, p. 99026, § 1.12)