[Adopted 6-22-1954 by Ord. No. 22; amended in its entirety 8-22-1995]
The Town Council is authorized to prepare and
file in the office of the Town Clerk surveys, maps or plans of proposed
highways and streets or the relocation, grade widening or improvement
of existing highways and streets, provided that such map or plan,
after completion, shall have been approved at a meeting of the Council.
Such map or plan shall have inscribed thereon the following: "Recommended
by the Town Council" and shall bear the date of such recommendation
and be signed by the Chairman of the Council.
A.
The Council shall, upon the filing of such survey,
map or plan, give notice to each record owner of land included in
such survey, map or plan, by certified mail, return receipt requested,
or by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town
of Farmington, of such filing and of the place within the Town where
and the time, not less than 10 days after such mailing and publication,
when the Council or a committee thereof shall hear any person claiming
to be affected thereby.
B.
The Council or such committee, after such hearing,
may approve and adopt such map or plan and may make assessments of
benefits accruing to and damages sustained by any person owning land
included in such survey, map or plan, and any assessments of benefits
so made shall, from the time of the completion of such work, constitute
a lien against the property affected, which lien shall take precedence
over all other encumbrances, except taxes and other municipal liens
or encumbrances of earlier date.
C.
Such liens may be continued by filing with the Town
Clerk, for record in the land records of the Town, within 90 days
after such assessment shall have been made and notice thereof given
to the person or persons affected thereby, a certificate of such lien
signed by the Collector of Revenue, which lien may be enforced in
the same manner as is provided for the enforcement of tax liens.
D.
New streets or highways shall be marked or defined
in accordance with Section 13a-41 of the General Statutes of Connecticut.
The Council may change any survey, map or plan
so made and filed by it at such time and in such manner as it shall
deem necessary and shall thereupon file a survey, map or plan of change,
inscribed as hereinbefore provided, with the Town Clerk. Notice by
certified mail, return receipt requested, of such change shall be
given by the Council to each record owner of land affected thereby
and by advertisement as in the first instance, and the subsequent
proceedings shall be as provided in the case of an original filing.
Any person adversely affected from the action of the Town Council taken under § 169-2 hereof may appeal such action as provided in Section 13a-40 of the General Statutes of Connecticut.
