Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER SIS. #. No, 148


the third class organized under
a Home Rule Charter or how
ever organized, and villages to
establish, build and construct
and collect rates, charges OF
rentals for the use and/Or opera :
ton Of sewage systems and for
sewage pumping stations and
sewage treatment and disposal
plants. and providing for the
application Of such funds to the
cost, construction and operation
or maintenance thereof, and issue
and sell bonds to construct any
such plant.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF
the State Of Minnesota:
Section l. Any city of the third
class organized under a Home Rule
Charter or however organized, and
any village, may build and construct
when authorized by an ordinance
passed by a two-thirds vote of the
governing body thereof, sewage
treatment or disposal plant or plants
for public use, and any such
municipality which has installed
or may hereafter install, build or
construct, a system Of sewers, sew
age pumping station, or sewage
treatment or disposal plant or
plants for public use, in addition
to all other powers granted to 1t
shall have authority, by an ordi-
nance duly adopted by the govern
ing body thereof, to charge just
and equitable rates, charges or
rentals for the use of such facilities
and for connection Herewith by
every person, firm, or corporation
whose premises are served by such
facilities either directly or indirect
ly. Such charges shall be as nearly
as possible equitable in proportion
to the service rendered and shall
take into consideration the quantity
OF sewage produced and its con-
centration, strength or river, lake,
bay or other body of water, pollu-
ton qualities In general and the
cost of its disposal. The charges
shall be fixed on the basis of water
consumed, or any other equitable
basis said governing body may deem
appropriate, and if the council so
directs, may be established as a
surcharge on the water bills Of all
water consumers in the municipali-
ty on the grounds that said sewage
treatment is for the purpose Of
pollution OF sources of
water supply, or on some other
basis Of measuring the use made of
the aforesaid facilities. In case of
arrangements with other munich
palities. districts or private parties
for the supplying Of sewers afore-
said, such rates, charges or rentals
may also be levied the same as in
operations.
Section 2. Any such municipality
may issue and sell bonds for the
Of any such system Of
sewers, sewage pumping stations or
sewage treatment or disposal plant
or plants for public use when
so to do by an ordinance
or resolution adopted by vote of
tWo-thirds Of the members of the
governing body of said municipality;
which bonds shall bear interest at
not more than SO per annum,
payable semiannually, and shall
mature one-twentieth at the end
Of each year and may be registered
with the City Treasurer Of said
No bonds shall be
sold for less than par, and that each
Of said bonds shall state plainly on
its face that it is payable only from
a sinking fund, naming said fund
and the ordinance and resolution
creating it, and that it does not
create an Indebtedness within the
Of any charter, statutory
or constitutional limitation upon
the mourning of indebtedness.
At the time Of, or before the Is
suance and sale Of any such bonds,
the governing body must create a
fund for the payment of
the bonds and the interest thereon
and charges Of the fiscal agency for
payment Of the bonds and
thereon.
That at, or before the issuance
and sale Of such bonds, the govern
ing body shall, by resolution or
set aside a sinking fund
and pledge to the payment Of the
bonds and the interest thereon the
net income and revenues Of the
system, including all additions
thereto and requirements and i'm
provements thereof subsequently
or acquired, up to an
amount sufficient to provide for
the payment Of the principal and
the interest on the bonds as such
and interest shall become
due and payable, the fiscal agency
charges, and a margin of safety,
which together with any unused
surplus Of such margin carried for
ward from the previous year, shall
equal 201o Of all other amounts so
required to be paid into the sink
ing fund.
The said income and revenues
above mentioned shall be construed
to mean all the gross income from
said plant less operating expenses
and cost of material and supplies
used in operation and less 1919 to
be set aside for requirements and
of said plant.
Said payments above mentioned
shall constitute a first and prior
charge and lien on the entire net
income and revenues derived from
the operation Of said system.
The governing body Of such
shall have full power
and authority. and it is hereby
made its duty to fix and establish,
On the basis of water consumed or
any other equitable basis, by ordi-
nonca or resolution and collect