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Editor's Note: For taxing districts in general, see Art.
II.
(Sp. Laws 1953, No. 566, § 2.)
The territory of the City of Norwalk which is included within
the following boundaries shall be the Sixth Taxing District of said
City of Norwalk as follows: starting at a point on the boundary line
between Darien and Norwalk; thence running east in a direct line to
the westerly end of the southerly boundary of Union cemetery, so called;
thence running along the southerly boundary of said Union cemetery
to the westerly side of Rowayton Avenue; thence running northerly
along said westerly side of Rowayton Avenue to a point that is upon
a production westerly of a line drawn 200 feet, measured at right
angles, northerly from the northerly side of Sheffield Road, so called;
thence running easterly upon said line 200 feet, measured at right
angles, northerly from the northerly side of Sheffield Road to the
westerly side of Lenox Road, so called; thence running easterly across
Lenox Road to the corner formed by the intersection of the easterly
side of Lenox Road with the southerly side of Winter Street, so called;
thence running along said southerly side of Winter Street to the westerly
side of Vanderbilt Avenue, so called; thence running upon a production
easterly of said southerly side of Winter Street across Vanderbilt
Avenue and easterly to a point 200 feet, measured at right angles,
from the easterly side of Vanderbilt Avenue; thence running southerly
along a line 200 feet easterly from and parallel to said easterly
side of Vanderbilt Avenue to land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company; thence running along said land of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to the easterly side of Highland
Avenue at Gaynor's Bridge, so called; thence running southerly
along said easterly side of Highland Avenue to the southerly boundary
of land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company;
thence running easterly along said southerly boundary of land of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to a point 600 feet
east of the easterly side of Highland Avenue, said distance measured
at right angles with the easterly side of Highland Avenue; thence
running southeasterly in a straight line to a point which is 100 feet
northwest of the most northwesterly side of the twenty-foot strip
reserved for highway purposes, measured at right angles, and is 400
feet northeast of the northeasterly side of Witch Lane, measured at
right angles; and thence continuing on a prolongation of the aforesaid
line to a point 200 feet, measured at right angles, from the northerly
side of Witch Lane, so called; thence running easterly along a line
200 feet, northerly from and parallel to said northerly side of Witch
Lane to the westerly side of other land of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad Company; thence running southerly along said
westerly side of other land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company across said Witch Lane and across Wilson Road, so
called, to the mean highwater mark of Wilson's Cove, so called;
thence running along the mean high-water mark of the northerly and
westerly boundary of Wilson's Cove to the mean high-water mark
of Long Island Sound; thence running along said mean high-water mark
of Long Island Sound to the entrance to Five Mile River; thence running
westerly across said entrance to Five Mile River to the boundary line
between Darien and Norwalk; thence running in a general northerly
direction along said boundary line between Darien and Norwalk to the
starting point or place of beginning.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 2.)
All electors of this state dwelling within the territorial limits
of the Sixth Taxing District are hereby constituted a body politic
and corporate by the name of the Sixth Taxing District of the City
of Norwalk, and by that name shall be capable of suing and being sued,
pleading and being impleaded, purchasing, holding, selling and conveying
any property, real or personal, and having a common seal for the purpose
of contracting for street lighting, sewers or any other needed civic
improvement voted by such district, including Rowayton Public Library.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 3.)
All inhabitants and property within the limits of the Sixth Taxing District shall be liable to taxation to defray any expenses or liability said taxing district may incur under §§ 1-135 to 1-141. The Board of Estimate and Taxation may lay and collect taxes for the purpose of paying the debts of said district or any part thereof and of establishing a sinking fund for that purpose. The avails of such taxes shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Sixth Taxing District for application for said purposes only. The Board of Estimate and Taxation shall lay a tax to defray the expenses of the Rowayton Public Library to the amount appropriated by said district at any annual or special meeting of said district.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 4; Sp. Laws 1955, No.
438, § 2; Charter Amendment 6-19-1974.)
Beginning in the year 1956, the annual meeting of the electors
residing in said taxing district shall be held on the first Wednesday
of March, for the purpose of hearing the reports of the Commissioners
of said district, and acting on such matters as may be properly brought
before such meeting. Notice of the time and place of said meeting
shall be given by said Board of Commissioners by publishing the same
in a newspaper having a circulation in said district at least 10 days
before said meeting, which notice shall set forth all matters to be
considered in said meeting. Special meetings in said district may
be called in like manner by said Board and shall be called upon written
request of 25 electors of said district to consider matters as set
forth in such notice or publication. Beginning in the year 1975, the
fiscal year of the Sixth Taxing District of the City of Norwalk shall
begin on the first day of July and terminate on the last day of June.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 5.)
The Collector of Taxes and Assessments of the City of Norwalk
shall be Ex Officio Treasurer of the Sixth Taxing District[1] and all taxes levied upon property in said district shall
be collected by said Collector of Taxes and Assessments, and said
Collector shall whenever necessary file with the Town Clerk his certificate
for the continuation of any liens for taxes levied upon property located
in said district, and may bring suit for the foreclosure of any such
tax lien in the name of said Sixth Taxing District in the manner provided
by law for the foreclosure of tax liens, and shall have the same powers
and duties in relation to the collection of taxes in said Sixth Taxing
District as he has under the provisions of the Charter of said City
of Norwalk, in relation to all other taxes and assessments of said
city.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289; § 6;[1] Sp. Laws 1967, No. 175.)
Said district shall elect a Board of Commissioners, all of whom
shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of their duties and shall hold
their office as hereafter provided and shall receive such compensation
as the electors of the district shall decide. Said Commissioners shall
appoint a Clerk who shall receive reasonable compensation as determined
by said Commissioners. It shall be the duty of said Clerk to keep
a record of all transactions of said district and of said Board of
Commissioners and discharge such duties as said Board may prescribe.
Said Commissioners may employ such mechanics, experts and laborers
as may be necessary in the exercise of their powers and duties.
(Sp. Laws 1967, No. 176, §§ 1-3.)
A.
The Board of Commissioners of the Sixth Taxing District shall manage
the affairs and business of said district.
B.
The duties of said Commissioners shall include, but not be limited
to, the care, maintenance and repair of all the property of said district.
They may lease, alter, improve or move the same, and sell personal
property, and negotiate to sell, exchange or raze real property subject
to elector approval. The Commissioners may execute and deliver on
behalf of said district all documents which may be necessary or proper
to effectuate such letting, sale, other change or exchange, delivering
the income and proceeds therefrom in such manner as the electors of
the district may authorize, and may exercise any other powers necessary
to carry out the provisions of this act or conferred upon them by
said district.
C.
A majority of said Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 7.)
The Sixth Taxing District shall annually appropriate $100 or
more toward the support of Rowayton Public Library, and the Board
of Estimate and Taxation of the City of Norwalk shall appropriate
annually the sum of $100 toward the support of such library.
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Editor's Note: As to library appropriations see Art.
XIX.
(Sp. Laws 1921, No. 289, § 8.)
§§ 1-135 to 1-141 shall not take effect unless approved by the qualified electors residing within the limits of said Sixth Taxing District at a special meeting to be called on the last Monday of June 1921, and in the warning for said special meeting notice shall be given to the electors of said district that the question of the approval or disapproval of this act will be voted upon. The electors who are in favor of approving this act will give in their ballots with the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and those opposed will give in their ballots with the word "No" written or printed thereon, and said ballots shall be furnished by the City Clerk of said City of Norwalk. If the majority of the ballots so given have the word "Yes" printed or written thereon, this act shall take effect. A ballot box for the reception of said ballots at said meeting shall be provided by the City Clerk of said City of Norwalk, and shall remain open from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the Rowayton Hose House in said district, when it shall be closed and the ballots sorted and counted and the result declared. The registry list of the Fifth Ward of said City of Norwalk last made and completed shall be used to determine the electors residing in said Sixth Taxing District, and the ballots shall be polled under the same regulations as govern elector's meetings in the Town of Norwalk. If the majority of said ballots shall be in favor of approving this act, a certificate of said approval signed by the said Clerk of said City of Norwalk shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, who shall record the same.
(Sp. Laws 1923, No. 410, § 1.)
There shall be held on the last Monday of June 1923, a special
meeting of the qualified voters of the Sixth Taxing District of the
City of Norwalk, to elect three Commissioners for said district, one
to serve until his successor shall be elected at the regular biennial
election of city and town officers in the year 1925, one to serve
until his successor shall be elected at the regular biennial election
in the year 1927 and one to serve until his successor shall be elected
at the regular biennial election in the year 1929, or until their
several successors shall be elected and qualified. The City Clerk
of the City of Norwalk shall give due and regular warning of said
special election, shall provide printed ballots bearing the names
of the candidates for office of Commissioner, which names shall have
been daily attested to him as nominated at the party caucuses held
prior to said special election, and shall provide a ballot box for
the reception of said ballots, which shall be polled under the same
regulations as govern elector's meetings in the Town of Norwalk.
Such special election shall be held at the Rowayton Hose House in
said district, and the ballot box for the reception of ballots shall
remain open from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., then it shall be closed,
the ballots sorted and counted and the result declared. In 1925, and
biennially thereafter, at the regular election of town and city officers,
there shall be elected by the electors of the Sixth Taxing District,
one Commissioner who shall hold office for the term of six years and
until his successor shall be elected and qualified. The term of office
for each Commissioner shall begin on the Wednesday following his election.
Said Commissioner shall perform such duties as from time to time shall
be required of or imposed upon them by vote of said district.
(Sp. Laws 1923, No. 410, § 2.)
(Sp. Laws 1925, No. 191, § 1.)
The election of three Commissioners of the Sixth Taxing District
of the City of Norwalk at the election of the City of Norwalk held
on the first Monday of October, 1923, is validated and confirmed.
(Sp. Laws 1925, No. 191, § 2.)
All meetings of said Sixth Taxing District held pursuant to
call issued by the District Commissioners and all acts, votes and
resolutions passed at such meetings and all appropriation made by
such meetings are validated and confirmed.
(Sp. Laws 1925, No. 191, § 3.)
At the election to be held in 1925 for town and city officers
for the Town and City of Norwalk and the several taxing districts
thereof, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the
electors of the Sixth Taxing District a Treasurer, who shall hold
office for the term of two years and until his successor shall have
been elected and qualified. Such Treasurer shall, in and for said
district, have the same authority given to and shall perform the same
duties as are required of the Treasurer of the First Taxing District,
of the Second Taxing District and of the Third Taxing District of
the City of Norwalk under the provisions of the Charter of said city.
(Sp. Laws 1925, No. 191, § 4.)
So much of § 1-138, amending 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, approved May 19, 1921, as requires the Collector of Taxes and Assessments of the City of Norwalk to be, Ex Officio, Treasurer of the Sixth Taxing District, is repealed.
(Sp. Laws 1951, No. 369, § 1.)
The Commissioners of the Sixth Taxing District of the City of
Norwalk shall have power to formulate and to adopt and enforce rules
and regulations in the manner hereinafter provided for governing the
frequenting and use of Bayley Beach, so called, the property, buildings
and equipment appurtenant thereto. Any person violating any such rule
or regulation shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not
more than 30 days, or both.
(Sp. Laws 1951, No. 369, § 2.)
Before passing any rule or regulation, said Commissioners shall
hold a hearing thereon, notice of which shall be given by publishing
the proposed rule or regulation and the time and place of such hearing
in some newspaper having a circulation in the Sixth Taxing District
of the City of Norwalk, at least five days before the time fixed for
the hearing.
(Sp. Laws 1951, No. 369, § 3.)
If a majority of the electors of the Sixth Taxing District of
the City of Norwalk present and voting at such hearing oppose the
adoption of a proposed rule or regulation, the question of its adoption
shall be submitted to the electors of the Sixth Taxing District of
the City of Norwalk at its next regular or special meeting, and in
such event such rule or regulation shall not become effective unless
a majority of the electors voting at such meeting shall vote in favor
thereof.
(Sp. Laws 1951, No. 369, § 4.)
(Sp. Laws 1951, No. 369, § 5.)
(Sp. Laws 1943, No. 64, § 1.)
The Commissioner of the Sixth Taxing District of the City of
Norwalk are authorized, when in legal meeting assembled, by a majority
of votes of the members of said Commission, to issue bonds or notes
on behalf of said taxing district to an amount not exceeding in the
aggregate $50,000, registered or with coupons attached, or both, bearing
interest at a rate not exceeding 5% per annum, payable semiannually.
(Sp. Laws 1943, No. 64, § 2.)
Such bonds or notes shall be serial in form and payable in such
substantially equal annual installments that the entire amount thereof
shall be paid with 10 years from the date of issue.
(Sp. Laws 1943, No. 64, § 3.)
The proceeds of such bonds or notes shall be used (a) for the
purpose of such of Roton Point, so called, as the Commissioners see
fit, for a site for a public park for said taxing district and (b)
to defray the expense of improving the same for such purpose.
(Sp. Laws 1943, No. 64, § 4.)
The Commissioners of said taxing district, subject to the limitations of §§ 1-153 to 1-156, shall determine the form of such bonds or notes, the several and aggregate amounts thereof, the time or times and place or places of payment of both principal and interest, the manner of signing, countersigning, selling, exchanging or otherwise disposing thereof and the person or persons who shall execute, negotiate and deliver the same for said district.
(Sp. Laws 1943, No. 64, § 5.)
Said bonds or notes when so executed, issued and delivered,
shall be obligatory upon said district, and upon all the inhabitants
and property thereof.
(Sp. Laws 1955, No. 67, § 1.)
The Commissioners of the Sixth Taxing District of the City of
Norwalk are authorized, when in legal meeting assembled, by a majority
of votes of the members of said Commission, to issue bonds or notes
on behalf of said taxing district to an amount not exceeding in the
aggregate $50,000, registered or with coupons attached or both, bearing
interest at a rate not exceeding three 3% per annum, payable semi-annually.
(Sp. Laws 1955, No. 67, § 2.)
Such bonds or notes shall be serial in form and payable in such
substantially equal annual installments that the entire amount thereof
shall be paid within 10 years from the date of issue.
(Sp. Laws 1955, No. 67, § 3.)
The proceeds of such bonds or notes shall be used to defray
the expense of improvement to Bayley Beach.
(Sp. Laws 1955, No. 67, § 4.)
The Commissioners of said taxing district, subject to the limitations of §§ 1-158 to 1-162, shall determine the form of such bonds or notes, the several and aggregate amounts thereof, the time or times and place or places of payment of both principal and interest, the manner of signing, countersigning, selling, exchanging or otherwise disposing thereof and the person or persons who shall execute, negotiate and deliver the same for said district.
(Sp. Laws 1955, No. 67, § 5.)
Said bonds or notes when so executed, issued and delivered,
shall be obligatory upon said district, and upon all the inhabitants
and property thereof.
