Chapter 14.12 — CONNECTIONS TO MAINS WHERE STREETS TO BE IMPROVED

Whenever the city council shall determine by resolution of intention under the general streets laws of the state of California to improve the roadway of any street or alley in the city, and after the hearing is held and the council obtains jurisdiction to order the proposed work, all owners of property whether such property be improved or unimproved on said proposed improvement, where the same has not already been done, shall and are required to install and/or connect with sanitary sewer and/or water lines in said property, and to make such connection at least to property line, and are required to install and/or connect with sanitary sewer and/or water lines in said property, and to make such connection at least to property line. The only exception to this requirement shall be for those property owners to whom the city council has granted the issuance of a septic system permit. Such connections shall be made for every lot, and only where land has been divided into lots, and is not held as acreage property, provided, however, that corner lots where neither or none of the streets adjoining such lots have been permanently improved, the property owner may exercise his choice as to the street the connection shall be made on, but he must inform the street superintendent in writing of his choice as to the particular street in that regard, before the city shall have obtained the jurisdiction or order said work and improvement done; otherwise the street superintendent shall select the street on which connections shall be made.

(Ord. 722 N.S. § 4, 1997)

Where property owners on said proposed improvement either fail to install and/or connect with the sanitary sewer and/or water lines or fail to commence work to make such connections before the proposed work and improvement on said street is begun, the street superintendent, after the council shall have obtained jurisdiction to order such work and improvement done, shall proceed forthwith to install and/or connect up all the property with the sanitary sewers and/or water lines to the property line on said proposed improvement of all owners who have heretofore failed to make connections as required under this chapter.

(Ord. 251 N.S. § 2, 1962)

Upon the completion by the street superintendent of all such installations and/or connections with the sanitary sewers and/or water lines on said proposed improvement, he shall return to the city council a report of such work setting forth therein, the name of each property owner, a description of the property connected with the sanitary sewer and/or water lines and the cost of each such connection.

(Ord. 251 N.S. § 3, 1962)

The city council shall thereafter fix a time for hearing and passing upon such report and shall give notice thereof, and to the property owners interested, of the time, place and hour of such hearing, and shall embody such report of the street superintendent in said notice and make such report a part of the same. Such notice shall be published for a period of five days in a newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in the city, and designated by the council for that purpose.

(Ord. 251 N.S. § 4, 1962)

Upon such hearing the council shall either accept or modify such report of the street superintendent and such report as accepted or modified shall be confirmed by the council and thereafter such amounts of the costs for installing and/or connecting the respective lots or parcels of land with the sanitary sewers and for water lines to the property line mentioned in said report, shall constitute special assessments against such respective lots or parcels of land, and after thus made and confirmed, shall constitute a lien on said property for the amount of such assessments respectively.

(Ord. 251 N.S. § 5, 1962)

After the confirmation and report a copy of such report shall be given to the assessor and to the tax collector of the city of El Paso de Robles, whereupon it shall be the duty of said officers to add the amounts of the respective assessments to the next regular bills for city taxes levied against the said respective lots and parcels of land for municipal purposes, and thereafter said amounts shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be subjected to the same penalties and the same procedure under foreclosure for sale in case of delinquency as provided for in ordinary municipal taxes.

(Ord. 251 N.S. § 6, 1962)