Where public sewers or water mains have been constructed and the cost thereof has been wholly or partly paid out of the funds of the City, or financed through the issuance of bonds, and the owner of any property abutting upon such sewers or water mains makes application to tap the sewers or water mains, no permit shall be issued to the abutting property owner to make the connection unless he or she has paid or is presently paying into the City Treasury that portion of the cost of the sewers or water mains for the property which was formally charged in the form of an assessment, but which the City has been unable to collect, either in full or in part, due to defects in procedure or the failure to obtain an assessment lien for such cost. However, where a portion of the cost of such sewers or water mains to which connections are desired to be made has been assessed against the abutting property and a valid assessment lien imposed for the cost, the permit to make the connection shall be issued upon the payment of the remaining portion of the cost which was not previously paid by assessment.
(Ord. 1964-27. Passed 6-8-64.)