(A) Water mains will not hereafter be laid in any street of the city without an assessment therefor, except in those streets where the city may order increased size water mains for additional water distribution or for fire protection. Sewer lines will not hereafter be laid in any street of the city without an assessment therefor. All such assessments shall be made in accordance with the applicable provisions of G.S. Chapter 160A pertaining to assessments for water and sewer line extensions.
(`84 Code, 5-3001)
(B) All parties on a city street or other such passway desiring an extension of the city water system or the city sewer system must present a signed petition to the Board of Commissioners, the signers constituting a majority both in number and in property footage abutting on the proposed water or sewer extension in order to obtain Board approval of the sewer main extension. Forms for petitions will be furnished by the City Clerk’s office.
(`84 Code, § 5-3002)
(C) Upon completion of construction of a water or sewer extension under an approved petition, property owners abutting the extension will pay for the entire cost to the city of the water or sewer main, including manholes and connection portions of the mains necessary to serve the line, according to their respective front footage. Any exemptions granted under divisions (D) and (E) of this section shall be treated as a part of the total cost of the line under this division.
(`84 Code, § 5-3003)
(D) (1) In the case where a property owner is located on a street corner and has access to, and has paid for, or has been assessed for his or her property footage abutting on a sewer main on one street, and developments require that a sewer main be constructed on the other street, in order to avoid unduly penalizing this property owner due to assessment, the city will absorb 100 feet of the last sewer main constructed.
(2) Where the property owner’s property extends through an entire city block and fronts on two streets, the depth being as much as 200 feet, then, in the event that a sewer main is petitioned and approved and constructed on both the street on the front and the street on the back of the property, the property owner will be assessed for his or her property footage on both streets and must pay on the second street when he or she connects to the sewer line situated there.
(`84 Code, § 5-3004)
(E) (1) Where a property owner abuts on a street which is served by a sewer main installed subsequent to the adoption of this policy for the purpose of conveying sewerage from a petitioned sewer main along the route to the point of its disposal, the cost of this line having been borne by the city, upon connecting, this property owner will be required to pay his or her part of the cost of the sewer main on the footage basis as if he or she abutted on a petitioned and approved sewer main.
(2) Any property owner having access to a sewer main such as an outfall or other sewer other than a city sewer by easement or abutment shall, upon connection of the sewer main, pay a flat fee in an amount as established from time to time by action of the Board of Commissioners, plus the usual tapping charges.
(`84 Code, § 5-3005)
(F) Whenever an individual property owner or group constructs at his or her expense a sewer main on a street, the city will uphold the right of the owners to recover a just payment from any property owner abutting on this sewer main on a pro-rata front foot basis who did not participate in the payment of the construction of the sewer main, should the latter desire to connect to it.
(`84 Code, § 5-3006) (Ord. passed 2-23-82)