[Adopted 12-10-1979 by Ord. No. 440 as
Secs. 25-1 to 25-4 of the 1979 Code]
All persons owning real estate within the Town
abutting on any of the public streets, highways, courts or lanes of
the Town and entitled to the installation of water lines in accordance
with the provisions of Chapter 122 of the Public Laws of 1961 may
cause to be installed, upon the approval of the Town Council, water
lines in accordance with Chapter 122 and shall pay to the Town the
entire cost thereof, and the Town, by vote of its Town Council, may
thereupon assume and pay to the City of Providence such cost of installation.
In any case wherein the Town Council shall collect
from any one owner of real estate the total charges for installation
of water lines in accordance with this article, it shall thereafter
be unlawful for any other person to connect or tie into such water
line unless and until such person desiring to tie in or connect to
such water line shall pay to the persons who have paid to the Town
the cost of the original installation their proportionate share of
the cost based upon the street frontage of the lot concerned.
If any person owning real estate within the
Town, abutting on any of the public streets, highways, courts or lanes
of the Town and entitled to the installation of water lines in accordance
with the provisions of Chapter 122 of the Public Laws of 1961, shall,
at their own and complete expense, cause to have installed, upon approval
of the Town Council, water lines in accordance with Chapter 122 and
shall pay to the City of Providence the complete cost and charges
of such installation, the inspector of plumbing shall thereafter not
issue to any person or persons desiring to tie in or connect on such
water line or lines until such inspector of plumbing shall have been
furnished with written notification from the Town Clerk that the person
applying to tie in or connect to such water lines shall have paid
to the person who has paid the original cost of installation of the
water line or lines concerned, to the City of Providence, their proportionate
share of the original cost of installation, with interest at the rate
of 6% to be reckoned from the date of the original payment of the
initial charges to the City of Providence by the persons causing to
have been made the original installation. The proportionate share
shall, as in the case of original payment by the Town, be based upon
the street frontage of the lot concerned.
A.
A sum not exceeding $50,000 is appropriated for the
purpose of defraying expense of the installation of water lines and
to impose an assessment for the purpose of recouping such expense.
B.
To raise this amount, the Treasurer, with the approval
of the Town Council, is authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding $50,000
pursuant to R.I.G.L. § 45-12-2; that each loan hereunder
shall be repaid in equal or diminishing annual installments commencing
no later than one year from its date and ending no later than 10 years
from its date; that notes in anticipation of the loans authorized
hereby may be issued payable within one year from their date; and
that notes issued for a shorter period may be refunded from time to
time by the issue of new notes provided that each issue of refunding
notes shall be payable within one year from the date of the original
notes being refunded.
C.
Stipulation: that the amounts to be allowed per individual
application will be $2,500 and that the allowance from
this article be allowed to private uses only and not contractors.
All applications must be presented to Council for its approval.
