[Adopted 8-1-1989 by Ord. No. 49-89]
[Amended 2-2-1993 by Ord. No. 57-93; 2-10-1998 by Ord. No.
104-98; 1-4-2000 by Ord. No. 118-00; 2-1-2001 by Ord. No.
127-01]
All customers of the York Water Company owning
property, whether or not exempt from taxation under existing law,
abutting upon said highways, streets, roads and alleys or portions
thereof within 780 feet of any fire hydrant in the district benefited
thereby shall annually pay an assessment of 0.170 mil for the placing,
replacing, operating, maintaining and repairing of said hydrants.
All such assessments for fire protection shall
be filed with the Township Tax Collector who shall give 30 days' written
or printed notice that the assessments are due and payable, stating
the due date to each party assessed either by service on the owner
of the property or by mailing such notice to the owner at his or her
last known post office address. The Township Tax Collector shall be
entitled to the same commission for the collection of such assessments
as he or she is entitled to by law for the collection of the Township
road tax.
[Amended 12-5-1995 by Ord. No. 83-95]
If the assessments or any of them remain unpaid
at the expiration of not exceeding 90 days, the exact time to be fixed
by the Township Supervisors, they shall be placed in the hands of
the Township Solicitor or his or her designee for collection. The
Township Solicitor shall collect the same, together with 5% as attorney's
commission and interest from the date such assessments were due, by
a municipal claim filed against the property of the delinquent owner
in like manner as municipal claims are by law filed and collected.
Where an owner has two or more lots against
which there is an assessment for the same year, all such lots may
be embraced in one claim.
