(A) Whenever the Board of Public Works and Safety awards a contract for the permanent improvement of any street, alley, or part thereof in the city, with any of the kinds of modern city pavements, all persons owning real estate abutting on the street, alley, or part thereof to be improved, shall lay therein and extend to the inside curb line thereof all gas and water service pipes for house connections within a period of 30 days from the day on which the contract is awarded.
(B) In case any owner of real estate fails or refuses to cause these pipes to be laid, then the city, by its proper officers, shall cause the pipes to be laid. When the work has been completed, the expenses, including the cost of the materials used, shall become a lien upon the abutting real estate owned by the person whose duty it was, under the provisions of (A) above, to cause the pipes to be laid. These expenses shall be collected in the same manner as is now provided by law for the collection of the costs and expenses of other street and sewer improvements.
(`81 Code, § 51.03) Penalty, see § 50.999
Statutory reference:
Collection of rates and charges; liens, see I.C. 36-9-23-25, 36-9-23-26, 36-9-23-28, 36-9-23-30 and 36-9-23-34