(a) Cost; Records. Whenever any property owner constructs, at his or her own cost, within the streets or public thoroughfares of the Village, pursuant to a permit and authority received from the Board of Trustees, a sanitary or storm sewer or waterline extension, in accordance with Village standards and specifications, inspected and approved by the proper official of the Village, and when properties other than the property of the person constructing such improvement intervene and abut upon that section of the street within which such improvement lies, then, when the constructing owner furnishes certification and satisfactory evidence of the cost of such improvement, the Village Clerk and/or the Village Manager, together with the Village Engineer, shall investigate the reasonableness thereof in accordance with existing prices. When the corporate authorities are satisfied as to such reasonableness, the Clerk shall make an appropriate record of the nature, extent, location and cost of such improvement.
(Ord. 377. Passed 7-25-72; 1976 Code § 19-39.)
(b) Waiver of Liability. The improving owner shall, prior to the commencement of work upon the improvement, deposit with the Clerk and/or the Manager a waiver of liability of, or right of reimbursement from, the Village of the cost of such improvement.
(Ord. 377. Passed 7-25-72; 1976 Code § 19-40.)
(c) Payment by Intervening Property Owner.
(1) Whenever the owner of any intervening property shall thereafter apply to the Village for a right to tap into or make connection with a privately constructed sewer or water line extension, the Clerk and/or the Manager shall compute and certify to such applicant the pro-rata cost of construction of that section of such line abutting the applicant's property, and shall, before issuing a permit to tap into or connect therewith, receive such pro-rata contribution for reimbursement. Upon receipt thereof, the Clerk and/or the Manager shall remit the same to the person constructing such extension, as set forth in subsection (a) hereof. The determination of the Clerk and/or the Manager as to the amount of such contribution shall, in the absence of willful fraud and misconduct, be conclusive as between the Village and the person having constructed such extension.
(Ord. 377. Passed 7-25-72; 1976 Code § 19-41.)
(2) The sums contributed by any such intervening owner shall be in addition to and exclusive of fees required and fixed by ordinance as inspection or permit fees for connection with or tapping into Village sewer and water lines.
(Ord. 377. Passed 7-25-72; 1976 Code § 19-42.)
(d) Criteria Determining Extension of Improvement. When an owner of property contiguous to the property of an owner who has previously constructed a private improvement, as provided for in subsection (a) hereof, wishes to connect to and extend the sewer or water line within the public streets, such extension shall be permitted only if, in the opinion of the Village Engineer, or an engineer acting for the Village, the existing facility is adequate for such purpose and provided that such extension is made along the total frontage of the property of the applicant owner abutting upon the street.
(Ord. 377. Passed 7-25-72; 1976 Code § 19-43.)