§ 20.16.050. Regrading—Assessment of costs.  


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  • Whenever, whether for the benefit of the public at large or for the enhancement of the value and improvement of property adjacent or tributary to any district, the regrade of the district is desired, and by reason thereof it becomes necessary to adjust or reconstruct water mains in the district which specially benefit and furnish water to the property abutting or adjacent to the streets to be regraded, the entire cost of such adjustment or reconstruction, up to and including twelve (12)-inch mains, shall be assessed against the property lying within the bounds of such district, and the cost of adjusting mains in excess of twelve (12) inches, and up to twenty-four (24) inches in size, shall be as follows: a sum equal to the cost of adjusting, re-laying or reconstructing twelve (12)-inch mains, together with fifty (50) percent of the excess cost by reason of the increased size of the main shall be assessed to the abutting property; provided, that the resolution and ordinance ordering the work and creating the district shall specify the cost as provided in this section, but no charge or assessment shall be made upon property lying within the district for the adjusting, re-laying or reconstruction of mains where they exceed twenty-four (24) inches in size for that proportion of the cost caused by the excess of twenty-four (24) inches.

(Ord. 27209 § 5, 1911.)