The management, operation and control of the wastewater facilities of the Village of Neshkoro is vested in the Village Board; all records, minutes and all written proceedings thereof shall be kept by the Village Clerk-Treasurer; the Village Clerk-Treasurer shall keep all the financial records.
The Village Board shall have the power to construct sewer lines for public use and shall have the power to lay sewer pipes in and through the alleys, streets and public grounds of the Village and, generally, to do all such work as may be found necessary or convenient in the management of the wastewater facilities. The Village Board shall have power by itself, its officers, agents and representatives to enter upon any land for the purpose of making examination in the performance of its duties under this chapter, without liability therefor, and the Village Board shall have power to purchase and acquire for the Village any real and personal property which may be necessary for construction of the wastewater facilities or for any repair, remodeling or additions thereto.
The property owner shall maintain the building sewer from the street main to the house and including all controls between the same, without expense to the Village, except when they are damaged as a result of negligence or carelessness on the part of the Village. All building sewers must be maintained free of defective conditions, by and at the expense of the owner or occupant of the property. When any building sewer is to be relaid and there are two or more buildings on such service, each building shall be disconnected from such sewer and a new building sewer will be installed for each building.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
Whenever any real estate or any easement therein or use thereof shall, in the judgment of the Village Board, be necessary to the wastewater facilities, and whenever, for any cause, an agreement for the purchase thereof cannot be made with the owner thereof, the Village Board shall proceed with all necessary steps to take such real estate, easement or use by condemnation in accordance with the Wisconsin Statutes and the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of 1970, if federal funds are used for the project associated with the real estate or easement.
All property, real, personal and mixed, acquired for the construction of the wastewater facilities, and all diagrams, papers, books and records connected therewith said wastewater facilities, and all buildings, machinery and fixtures pertaining thereto, shall be the property of the Village of Neshkoro.