(Sp. Laws 1913, No. 352, § 4; Sp. Laws 1929, No.
82, § 1.)
Said city is divided into six taxing districts. The First and
Second Wards[1] shall be the First and Second Taxing Districts.[2] So much of the territory of said city as is included within
the boundaries of the East Norwalk Fire District, as the same existed
at the passage of the consolidation act, shall be the Third Taxing
District.[3] So much of the territory of said city as is included in the First, Second and Third Wards, together with such additional territory situated in the Fourth or Fifth Wards as may at any time hereafter be designated, defined and specified by the Council of said city, as provided in § 1-17 shall be the Fourth Taxing District. The Fifth Taxing District shall be the entire city.
(Sp. Laws 1913, No. 352, § 4; Sp. Laws 1929, No.
82, § 2; Sp. Laws 1949, No. 399.)
The Council of said City of Norwalk is empowered to extend the
limits of said Fourth Taxing District to include any part or parts
of the Fourth or Fifth Wards of said city. Notice of such proposed
action by said Council shall be given by publication thereof, at least
10 days prior to any such meeting, in a newspaper published in said
city, which notice shall describe the territory so to be included.
If the territory of said Fourth or Fifth Wards to be included in the
extension of the limits of said Fourth Taxing District shall be connected
by sewer or sewers with said Fourth Taxing District, such extension
may be made at the will of said Council after notice as aforesaid.
In case the territory so to be included shall not be connected by
sewer or sewers with said Fourth Taxing District, the limits of said
Fourth Taxing District shall not be extended by said Council to include
such proposed additional territory unless a petition for such extension
and inclusion, signed by a majority of the electors of said city residing
in the territory so to be included, shall be filed with the City Clerk
of said city.
The Council of the City of Norwalk is empowered to exclude from
the Fourth Taxing District any territory of the Fourth and Fifth Wards
of said city, if such territory shall not be connected by sewer or
sewers of said Fourth Taxing District. Notice of such proposed action
by said Council shall be given by publication thereof, at least 10
days prior to such meeting, in a newspaper published in said city,
which notice shall describe the territory so to be excluded.
(Sp. Laws 1913, No. 352, § 10; Sp. Laws 1915, No.
367, § 1.)
All inhabitants and property within the limits of the Fifth
Taxing District shall be liable to the burdens and expenses heretofore
borne by the Town of Norwalk and herein imposed upon the city by this
act to the same extent as they would be liable if said burdens, expenses,
duties, and powers had not been transferred from the Town of Norwalk
to the city, and in addition thereto, for the expenses of the Board
of Health, and the salaries of all elective officials of the city,
and the clerical and incidental expenses of their respective offices,
except the Commissioners and Treasurer elected in the First, Second,
and Third Taxing Districts of said city. All expense of permanent
improvement of the highways in the Fourth Taxing District, including
paving and the care of the same, shall be borne by said Fourth Taxing
District. All other burdens and expenses of the city shall be met
by taxes levied upon the inhabitants and property within the limits
of the Fourth Taxing District, and it shall be the duty of the assessors
to indicate in the completed list of the city, and by separate lists,
the property and amount thereof taxable in each of the several taxing
districts herein created, and the money derived from the taxation
of the inhabitants and property of each of the aforesaid taxing districts
shall not be used for any other purpose than to defray the burdens
and expenses of such taxing districts as herein imposed.
(Sp. Laws 1937, No. 283, § 1; Sp. Laws 1939, No.
183; Sp. Laws 1945, No. 265, §§ 1, 2; Sp. Laws 1955,
No. 438, § 1.)
The fiscal year[1] of the First Taxing District, of the Second Taxing District
and of the Third Taxing District, respectively, of the City of Norwalk
shall begin on the first day of January and terminate on the last
day of December. Beginning in the year 1956, the annual meeting of
each of said districts shall be held on the first Wednesday of March,
and notice of each such meeting shall be given in the same manner
as is provided in the Charter of said city.
(Sp. Laws 1937, No. 283, § 2.)
Any provisions of §§ 1-23, 1-77 or 1-116[1] of an act, approved June 6, 1913, entitled "An Act consolidating
the Town of Norwalk with the Cities of Norwalk and South Norwalk and
the East Norwalk Fire District, and incorporating the City of Norwalk,"
inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is [are] repealed.
(Sp. Laws 1941, No. 445; Sp. Laws 1959, No. 93)
To relieve congestion on the highways of the First, Second and
Third Taxing Districts of the City of Norwalk, said taxing districts
are authorized to acquire, by lease, deed or gift, such real estate
in said districts as to the Commissioners of said districts shall
appear necessary to provide suitable spaces or places for the parking
of automobiles and other vehicles, and to make any necessary appropriation
of funds for such purposes. In the event that said districts, acting
through their said Commissioners, shall be unable to agree with any
property owners whose land shall be deemed necessary for such parking
spaces or places, on the price to be paid therefor, said Commissioners,
for and in the name of said districts, may acquire the same by condemnation
proceedings, in which case said districts shall follow the same procedure
for acquiring said land as is prescribed and set forth in the Charter
of the City of Norwalk to be followed by the First and Second Districts
for the acquisition of land for the uses of the water department of
said First and Second Districts.
