(A) The city, for the purpose of maintaining, enlarging, extending, constructing, and repairing sewage facilities, and for paying the interest and principal on revenue bonds issued for the construction of sewage facilities, may levy, by general ordinance, a just and reasonable service charge, upon a front- foot, volume-of-sewage, number-of-outlets, or other equitable basis on:
(1) An improved or unimproved lot or land which adjoins a street in which a sewage collection system exists or which is accessible to a sewage collection system; and
(2) Premises and improvements otherwise situated, but connected to the sewage collection system.
(B) Any charge is a lien co-equal with a similar water lien and superior to all other liens, except general property taxes upon the property so charged, and is a personal liability of the owner of the property so charged. The lien shall be enforced as provided in NMSA §§ 3-36-1 through 3-36-6.
(1981 Code, § 23-6) (Ord. 615, passed 4-30-1973)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see NMSA § 3-26-2