Chapter 13.16
WATER AND SEWER FACILITY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

Sections:

13.16.010    Connection contracts.

13.16.010 Connection contracts.

A.    In accordance with the Laws of the State of Washington of 1959, Chapter 261 (RCW 35.91.010 through 35.91.050), the city council may from time to time as it deems necessary and advisable, contract with owners of real estate for the construction of storm, sanitary or combination sewers, pumping stations and disposal plants, water mains, hydrants or appurtenances, hereinafter called “water or sewer facilities” within the corporate limits of the city or within four miles of the corporate limits connecting with the public water or sewerage system to serve the area in which real estate of such owners is located, and to provide for a period of not to exceed fifteen years for the reimbursement of such owners and their assigns by any owner of real estate who did not contribute to the original cost of such sewer or water facilities, and who subsequently tap on to or use the same of the fair pro rata share of the cost of construction of the water or sewer facilities, including not only those directly connected thereto, but also users connected to laterals or branches connecting thereto, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the city council may provide or contract, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law. The provisions of such contract shall not be effective as to any owner of real estate not a party thereto unless such contract shall have been recorded in the office of the county auditor for Thurston County prior to the time such owner taps into or connects to the water or sewer facilities.

B.    In connection with the terms of the contract and the enforcement thereof, all of the terms of Chapter 261, as amended after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section derives, shall apply.

(Ord. 397, Added, 08/02/1960)