[R.O. 2012 §130.130; Ord. No. 615 Arts. I — VII, 7-2-1996]
A.
A tax
on each parcel of residential real property located within the territorial
boundaries of the Village having six (6) or less dwelling units is
hereby levied and imposed in the amount of seven dollars ($7.00) per
quarter beginning September 1, 1996, for the sole purpose of paying
for the costs of repairs of defective lateral sewer service lines
of those dwelling units located thereon from any sewer main to the
boundary line of the public or private right-of-way.
B.
The
Village Clerk is hereby directed to prepare and mail a tax bill for
all owners of such residential real property for five-sixths (5/6)
of a year from September 1, 1998, to June 30, 1997, in the amount
of twenty-three dollars thirty-three cents ($23.33). Said bill shall
be payable by September 1, 1996, and shall be sent out at least thirty
(30) days prior thereto.
Beginning July 1, 1997, and on each July first (1st), thereafter,
the annual tax in the amount of twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) shall
be due and payable. The Village Clerk shall prepare and mail bills
for this tax in conjunction with the bills for garbage and rubbish.
A separate bill shall be prepared therefore with the designation "sewer
lateral tax".
C.
All
taxes collected pursuant to this Article shall be set aside and maintained
in a fund separate and apart from the general revenue received by
the Village. The Village Clerk shall open a separate interest-bearing
checking account and all monies received from this tax may only be
used for the purpose specified herein.
D.
Beginning
on the date the tax is first payable, the Village shall arrange and
pay for the repair of all defective sewer laterals on residential
real property subject to this tax discovered on said date or thereafter
provided all taxes and assessments, including the sewer lateral tax,
have been paid on the real property at issue. Any defective sewer
lateral discovered prior to September 1, 1996, shall not be the responsibility
of the Village and shall remain the responsibility of the owner pursuant
to Ordinance 449.
E.
In
the event there are insufficient funds in the separate account set
up pursuant to this Article to pay for the repair of a defective lateral,
then the Trustees of the Village, in their sole discretion, and by
majority vote at any regular or special meeting, may transfer funds
from the General Revenue accounts to the separate account. In the
event such transfer is made, then the first (1st) dollars next received
and deposited into said separate account for sewer laterals shall
be transferred to the general revenue accounts until all transfers
therefrom have been returned.
F.
In
the event a defective sewer lateral is discovered after September
1, 1996, and all taxes and assessments due the Village are not paid
in full, then the Village shall not be responsible for the repair
of such defective sewer lateral nor shall it expend any funds from
the account set up under this Article for the repair therefor.
G.
In
no event shall the Village expend any funds to reimburse an owner
of residential real estate subject to this tax for money or labor
expended to repair a defective sewer lateral unless such owner has
prior written approval from the Board of Trustees of the Village of
Hanley Hills, Missouri. Any money or labor expended by such owner
without said prior written approval shall be at such owner's own expense.
