(A) This section shall provide standards, establish uniform practices and implement cooperative administration between the cities of Maplewood and North St. Paul in all matters pertaining to sewers and other utilities lying upon streets located along their continuous common borderlines.
(B) Sanitary sewers shall be installed on the centerline of borderline streets, and the service therefrom shall be available to properties in both municipalities. Water and gas lines shall likewise be installed in such a manner as to provide service to properties in both municipalities.
(C) All plans adopted for any improvement within the dedicated right-of-way of any borderline street common to both municipalities shall be subject to approval of the engineering department of both municipalities.
(D) Whenever any improvement can be jointly undertaken by both municipalities, such procedure will be followed so that all benefitted property can be assessed. If the improvement must be done by one city instead of both, the benefit to property in the adjoining city which cannot be assessed by the city which has undertaken the improvement will be subject to connection fees in an amount equal to what the original assessment would have been had the property been subject to assessment, provided that as to street construction no such charge as a connection charge shall apply. Whenever property in one municipality is subject to a connection charge by the other municipality, as hereinbefore provided, the municipality in which such property is located shall not issue a building permit or other privilege to the owner of said property without first notifying the other municipality. Failure to give such notice shall render the municipality in which the property is located subject to and liable for payment of such connection charge to the other municipality if the property owner fails to pay same.
(E) All users of utilities shall pay service charges for the use thereof to the municipality which maintains
the utility lines; provided that existing users of a sanitary sewer in North St. Paul, whose property is located in North St. Paul, shall pay no greater charge for sewer service than what the City of North St. Paul charges its resident sanitary sewer users. It is intended that SERVICE CHARGE, as used in the preceding sentence, means the total of the annual maintenance charge payable to the Metropolitan Council, the annual service charge payable to the Metropolitan Council and the local annual maintenance charge imposed by North St. Paul.
(F) Storm sewer facilities for area drainage affecting or involving borderline streets shall be subject to approval by both municipalities. The cost of such storm sewers shall be shared by both municipalities. The basis upon which the costs of such storm sewers shall be distributed and shared between these municipalities shall be proportional to the amount of square footage of the respective drainage areas lying within the separate municipalities.
(`89 Code, § 160.160)