The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-10


nance Committee. This bill provides
that
'sSixty per cent. of the total amount
of poll and school taxes and taxes
on property and incomes and of the
license fees paid for licenses obtained
to operate in each county or city and
county shall be paid by the Treasurer
of the Territory of Hawaii to the
| treasurer of each county or city and
| county as the case may be; and fol
the purposes of the division and pay
ment hereby provided for the amount
/ of taxes on income of corporations
| collected in a county other than that
| wherein the principal property of such
| corporation is situated shall be regard
| ed as having been collected in the
county in which its property is so sit
uated. -
Water and Sewer Rates.
| House Bills 10 and Ill, Coney, re-
| lating to the payment of water and
sewer rates, went to the Public Lands
| and Internal Improvement Committee.
The first bill deals with sewer rates,
the main clause being:
eff a sewer rate shall remain I'M
paid for fifteen days after it is due,
a penalty of 10 per cent. in addition
to the regular rate shall be charged,
which penalty shall become a part of
such sewer rate and shall be collected
as a part thereof. and every sewer
rate remaining unpaid thirty days
after it shall become due, together
with the penalty thereon, shall bear
;vfa nj ba 70 Of
annum until paid. Every such sewer
rate, or charge, together with the PEN
atty and interest thereafter at the
legal rate, shall be a prior lien upon
The property connected with said
sewer, which said lien shall attach as
of the date when said sewer rate or
charge is due and payable, and shall
continue until such sewer rate, pen
atty and interest thereon shall be paid.
Such liens may be enforced and fore
closed upon the petition of the Super
intendent Of Public Works to the cir
cult Judge at chambers in the Firss
Judicial Circuit. The rates and charges
shall be payable by the owners and
occupants of the premises in respect
to which the services are rendered,
who shall be Jointly and severally liza
BILE therefor. -
Must Pay in Advance.
The water bill gives the Superin-
tendent of Public Works much more
power to collect water rates than he
has at present. 1t also makes pay
ment in advance necessary. The prin-
eipal features of the bill are:
Applications for a permanent sup
ply of water from any government sys-
tenn or source of supply shall be in
writing, signed by the owner of the
property to be connected with the wa
ter system. Such application shall be
upon printed form to be supplied by
the Superintendent of Public Works,
and shall contain statement of the
terms and conditions upon which water
may be used. If permission shall be
granted, the applicant shall be furnish
ed with duplicate of the form of
application, and shall be entitled to a
water privilege as specified in such
application. Water rates shall be pay
able half yearly in advance on the
first day of January and the first day
of July each year at the office of the
waterworks.
elf such rate shall remain unpaid
for fifteen days after it is due, the
superintendent may forthwith without
notice shut off the water from such
property, charging the expense for so
doing to the owner of the property,
and penalty of 10 per cent. in addi-
ton to the regular rate shall be
charged, which penalty shall become
part of such water rate and shall be
collected as part thereof; and every
water rate remaining unpaid thirty
days after it shall become due, to-
gether with the penalty thereon, shall
bear legal interest thereafter until
paid. Every water rate shall be a
prior lien upon the property connected
with the water system, which lien shall
attach to said property as of the date
when said water rate is due and pay
able, and shall continue until such
water rate, penalty and interest there
on to date shall be paid. Said liens
may be enforced and foreclosed upon
a petition of the Superintendent of
Public Works to the circuit Judge at
chambers in the First judicial Civ
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