[Approved by the General Assembly 6-14-1913 by S.A. 268;
approved by Town 6-25-1913; amended by the General Assembly 4-25-1957
by S.A. 112]
Section 1. The selectmen of the town of Windsor Locks are hereby
authorized to construct, maintain, alter, and repair curbs and sidewalks
in such of its streets and highways as have been or shall be graded,
paved, macadamized, or otherwise hardened.
Section 2. The cost of constructing such curbs and sidewalks
in the first instance shall be paid by the town. The selectmen shall,
after its completion, assess two-thirds of such cost, in such amounts
as they shall deem reasonable, upon the owner or owners of land specially
benefited and improved by the work and abutting on that side of the
street or highway on which the work was done. The cost of maintaining,
altering and repairing such curbs and sidewalks shall be paid by the
town. The owner or owners of property abutting a street or highway
shall not be assessed or charged for such alteration, maintenance
or repair.
Section 3. Upon completion of the assessment the selectmen shall
forthwith give each land owner written notice of the amount of his
assessment, and within ten days after receiving such notice he may
appeal to the judge of the court of common pleas for Hartford county,
by petition and citation returnable in fifteen days from date and
served on one of the selectmen six days before the return day. Said
judge may confirm or change such assessment and award costs at his
discretion, according to the practice of said court, and issue execution
therefor.
Section 4. Every such assessment shall be a lien on the land
on account of which it was assessed, from the time of the land owner's
receiving the selectmen's notice prescribed in section three,
and shall have priority of all mortgages and other liens except tax
liens, provided such lien shall not continue longer than three months
from the time of such notice, unless a certificate, signed by the
first selectman, shall within said period have been filed in the town
clerk's office.
Section 5. All such assessments shall become due at the time
of delivery of the selectmen's notice aforesaid and shall be
paid to the town treasurer. If an assessment shall not have been paid
within sixty days, it shall bear interest at six per centum per annum
from the time it became due.
Section 6. Said liens may be foreclosed by the town treasurer
in the name of the town in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure
of tax liens.
Section 7. This act shall take effect at the expiration of one
month after its approval, provided it shall within said period have
been accepted by the town in a meeting warned and held for that purpose,
otherwise it shall be void.
