The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-22
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An ORDINANCE TO REPEAL q

N ORDINANCE TO REPEAL sAN Or
"A DINANCETo AMEND AND DRE,ORDAIN
SECTIONS 81. IS, AND 80, OF CHAPTER a."
PASSED AUGUST 2l, 1871, AND TO AMEND
AND RE-ORDAIN SECTIONS 81, 5s, 90, AND
6O OF CHAPTER "a OF THE ORDINANCES
OF 1869. Passed December IL, 1871
Be il ordained. That IAN ordinance 10 amend
and re-ordain sections 81, IS, and 90, of chapter
"a of the ordinances of lSe9,' passed August 81,
1871 be and the same is hereby repealed. and
that sections 81, So, go and 60, of chapter "a OF
the ordinances Of 1869, be amended and re-
ordained so as to read as follows
81 The owners of lots with houses on them,
which, according TO the plan of the city, adjon
n street in which there is a sewer owned by the
city, into which it is practicable to enter or are
distant from said street not more than one-half
of one side of a square, snail be assessed annual
ly thirty cents for each front foot of such lots re-
spectively being ten per cent. upon the cost of
the sewer, estimated at three dollars; the own
ers of unimproved lots similarly situated with
reference to city sewer shall be assessed seq annu-
ally fifteen cents for each front foot of the same
respectively and whenever such lots are built
upon, the assessment shall be increased to thirty
cents per foot until connection with the sewer
shall have been made such owners shall be so
assessed, Notwithstanding there may be on such
lots q cellar eight feet below the level of the
sidewalk and not capable of drainage into il.
The tax SO assessed may be committed at any
time by the payment to the Auditor Of a sum
whereof the assessment is ten per cent. Upon
such payment the Auditor shall furnish said
owner a receipt stating that the assessment has
been eommuted, and that the property on which
the assessment is thus eommuted shall have
perpetual right of drainage int said sewer
without further payment therefor, The En-
gineer of the city shall from time 10 time return
to the City Assessrr list of the assessments to-
be made under this ordinance, and the assessor
shall assess said owners respectively with the
amounts with which they are reported chargea-
ble to be collected in the mode prescribed for the
collection of city taxes Said lots shall ba
sessed for one sewer only, and such as have paid
assessments for sewerage, or complied with the
requirements under n former ordinance of the
city, are exempt under this. But when lots
sessed un,ler this ordinance shall afterwards be
sub-divided as separate lots, and buildings erect
ed thereon with new and additional fronts, such
new fronts shall lie subject to assessment, and
to all the provisions of this ordinance, in like
manner rs though they had b. en- fronts origi-
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5s The said owners of lots with houses
them shall form sonnection from their lots re-
specively with said sewer or with some other
sewer owned by The city. And whenever any
person has made the connection herein required,
he shall obtain from the City Engineer certf-
cate thereto, stating that he is thereby entitled
to reduction OF the assessment upon said lot of
fifteen cents per foot front And the City Colec-
tor shall receive such certificate as payment of
one-haf of any uncollected assessments of thirty
cents per front foot of said lot for that fiscal
year The City Engineer shall return to, the
City Assessor on the first day of each month a
list of all owners who have made the connection
herein required during the preceding month.
And the Assessor shall reduce the annual assess
ment OH all such owners from thirty cents TO fif
teen cents per front foot of the lots from which
such connection has been made The owners of
lots not required under this ordinance to form u
connection with q city sewer may form Il con-
nection from their lots with any accessible sewer
owned by the city, upon permission from the In
gineer of the city All owners making such con
nection shall be assessed fifteen cen 5 per front
foot of the lots respectively from which the con-
nection is made, subject to the provisions of the
preceding section applicable thereto. elt
90. Whenever the Board of Health shall deem
it important to the health of the neighborlood,
the cleanliness of any lot, or the owner there
of shall desire, that sewer on drain-pipe shall
be run from said lot to connect with "a public
sewer, the President of said l}oLrd shall report
the fact to the City Engineer i'll writing and the
Engineer shall give the applicant such informa-
tion as will enable him to make such connection
on the most economical plan consistent with the
requirements of the ordinances OF the city land
it shall be the duty of the owner TO make the
connection possible after having
ceived written notification from the Engineer;
provided the sewer with which the connection is
to be made is within half of one side of square
OF the property to be drained, and capable of
draining the same Any person falling to make
such connection within fifty days after receiving
such notice. Shall be fined one dollar per day for
every day thereafter until such connection be
made. e 5e -
So Connections may be made directly with
city sewer, or Through a private drain or sewer
having direct connection with city sewer,
upon payment to the owner OF said sewer rata
BILE proportion of the cost thereof, which is TO be
ascertaiued by the City Engineer. And all per-
sons making connections either with public or
private sewers or drains shall first obtain per-
mission from the City Engineer to enter the
street or alley, as the case may be, and shall con-
meet at such point and in such manner as he may
drain with earth, thoroughly consolidating the
same as it was before the connection; and i'll ten
days after the connection shall have such pave
ment or curbs one AS was injured or removed in
making said connection so repaired or restored
to be in rs good order us it was before; and
any one falling to comply herewith shall pay
fine of not less than S5nor more than $50, and eve
ry ten days that such failure shall continue shall
cons ute distinct offence And all coilnec-
lions with sewers shall be made i'll the most sub
stantial manner, and no brick or stone-b box drains
shall be hereafter constructed but all private
drains shall be of draining piping or of
brick barrel drains, or such other shall be APP
proved by the Committee on Streets. with suih-
eient Steneh-tapS at their heads: and any person
who shall make cause to be made any defec-
tive private sewer drain, where the same
passes under a public highway, shall be fined not
less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars
upon conviction thereof before the Police JUS
tice and the City Engineer shall cause said de-
fective sewer to be shut up f any person shall
either in street or upon 4 LOT put any stone,
brick, or other solid thing into cuvert sewer.
or shall in any way whatever injure, impair, or
obstruct a culvert sewer fixture thereof,
he shall pay fine of not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars From and after the Isl of
May, 1872, all connections with the public pri-
vate sewers or drains shall he protected by traps
to be approved by the City Engineer Any per-
son failing TO introduce traps al the time sieci-
fled shall be fined one dollar per month for the
first year, and two dollars per month for each
subsequent year, and until the requirements are
complied with.
Published By authority.
de 2l-5t f. q. HOWARD City Clerk.
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