In addition to the method for the payment of the cost of construction of sewers and sewer systems provided by Sections sixty-two and sixty-two-a of the Charter of the City of Dunbar, the Council may order any sewer or sewer system so constructed and laid, in any block, street, avenue, alley or in any right of way or easement, or portion thereof, and the Council may order the Mayor and City Clerk to issue a certificate for each installment of the amount of the assessment to be paid by the owner of any lot or fractional part thereof fronting on such streets, avenues, alleys, rights of way or easements in which such sewer system is constructed and laid, and the amount specified in said assessment certificates shall be a lien as aforesaid in the hands of the holder thereof upon the lot or part of lot fronting on such street, avenue, alley, right of way or easement, and such certificate shall draw interest from the date of said assessment and the payment may be enforced in the name of the holder of said certificate by proper suit in equity in any court having proper jurisdiction to enforce such lien; the Council shall fix the amount of such assessment, advertise for bids and do all other things in connection therewith as is provided in Section sixty-one of said Charter for paving or permanently improving any street or alley or any portion thereof, the costs of which shall be apportioned against the several properties fronting upon the street, avenue, alley, right of way or easement or portion thereof in which the sewer or sewer system is laid according to the provisions of Section sixty-two or section sixty-two-a, as the case may be. Such certificates shall be issued in the following number of installments.
When the assessment shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) the assessment and certificates issued thereon shall be in five equal amounts or installments, due and payable on the first day of May succeeding after completion and acceptance of said work, and one on the first day of May of each year thereafter for the next four succeeding years. If more than fifty dollars ($50.00), the assessment and certificates issued thereon shall be in ten equal amounts or installments, the first of which will be due on the first day of May next after the completion and acceptance of said work, and one on the first day of May of each year thereafter for the next nine years; and the term "equal amounts" herein shall mean as nearly equal as practicable, that is, four certificates being expressed in terms of dollars each, and, when practical, in multiples of five, the cents and odd amounts being covered by the first certificate.
Every such certificate shall be a lien in the hands of the holder thereof upon the particular lot against which it is assessed in the same way and manner that assessments are liens under Sections sixty-two and sixty-two-a of this Charter. And nothing in the Charter of the City of Dunbar shall be construed as imposing a time limit upon the enforcement by appropriate suit of any lien for public improvements heretofore or hereafter created.
Certificates authorized by this section may be issued, sold or negotiated to the contractor during the work, or to any other person if the Council deems it expedient; provided, the City in issuing such certificate shall not be held as guarantor or in any way liable for the payment thereof, except upon the direct action of the Council, expressed by resolution of record before sale. Certificates so issued shall contain a provision to the effect that in the event of default in the payment of any one of said certificates, when due, said default continuing for a period of sixty days, then all unpaid certificates shall become due and payable and the holder of said certificates may proceed to collect all of such unpaid certificates in the manner hereinbefore provided; provided, that no sewer or sewer system shall be constructed or laid pursuant to this section except and unless two-thirds of the members elected to the Council shall concur in the passage of the ordinance providing therefor, and the vote thereon shall be taken by ayes and noes, and duly entered upon the record.