The Ordway new era., 1913-11-21
Amendment To
Ordinance No. 101

Ordinance NO. lUl
ENTITLED, AN ORDINANCE CON-
CERNING WATER WORKS AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR
VIOLATING THE PROVISIONS
THEREOF.
Be it Ordained by the Board of Trus-
tees of the Incorporated Town of Ord
way; that
That paragraph of Section 7, of Ordi-
nance No. 1O1, entitled as above stated,
which follows the schedule ofhouse and
room rates shalLread as follows:
"a flat tax of $500 per year shall be
assessed and collected from each lot 25
feet in width and fronting on water
main. Acre property fronting on a
water main shall be assessed and such
tax shall be collected at the rate of 2
cents per front foot per year." and
there shall be and the same Is hereby
added to said quoted words, the follow
ing:
On or before the first day of Decem-
Der, A. D., 1918, the Water Commis-
sioner of the Town of Ordway shall
make, or cause to be made, survey
and report of all those Blocks of lands
in said town, fronting upon streets or
avenues along which are water mains,
which are not shown, by maps or plats
of record, to have been previously sub
divided into lots. By said report there
shall be shown what blocks, fronting as
above stated, are not subdivided into
lots; what blocks, or parts of blocks
front upon a street or avenue along
which is located water main; what
blocks or parts of blocks have been
builded upon, or otherwise improved
and occupied for residence or bus
mess purposes, or put in such state Of
cultivation as to require and have irri-
cation from the water mains of said
town, and the length, in feet, of such
frontage and such designated lands shall
be denominated improved" Such re-
port shall, on the first day of December,
A. D., 1918, or as soon as may be there
after, be filed with the Clerk and Re-
corder of said town, and annually there
after on or before November 1st of each
year. Said Water Commissioner shall
make and file reports showing correc-
tions, additions or other changes of con-
ditions of said undivided blocks. Such
original report and all future annual re-
ports shall be read and submitted to the
Board of Trustees of said town, at the
first regular meeting after being filed,
for amendment, change or approval.
and when approved by said Board shall
30 stand for that year. Upon each and
every 25 feet of frontage on street or
avenue of such improved lands there
shall be assessed and collected q fiat tax
of $2.00-provided, that in all cases
where such improved lands front upon
more than one water main, said fiat tax
shall only be assessed and collected for
one frontage, and provided further that
where lots which have been plated, or
parcels of unplatted lands designated as
improved do not front upon water
main, but have been connected there
with and the water therefrom put into
use thereupon, such lots or parcels shall
have assessed against and collected
from them fiat tax at the rate of 81. 90
for each 1875 square feet of surface.
Read, considered and adopted upon a
call of the yeas and nays, which result
ed as follows:
Ayes: Bouldin, Gray, Oliver, Sale and
Trainor. Nays: none
Absent and not voting, McCleary.
(SEAL1 JOHN B. ESTES,
Clerk and Recorder.
Approved by
A. M. WARD,