Chapter
036
2008 -- S 2696
Enacted 06/12/08
A N A C T
RELATING TO TOWNS AND
CITIES -- SEWER CHARGES
Introduced By: Senator Daniel P. Connors
Date Introduced: February 26, 2008
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Section 45-14-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-14 entitled "Sewage
Charges"
is hereby amended to read as follows:
45-14-1.
Power to assess charges against users. -- In addition to the powers,
privileges,
prerogatives,
and authority that are now granted to each city and town, or any agency of a
city or
town, in
connection with sewers or sewer systems of these municipalities, each city and
town is
authorized
and empowered to enact ordinances assessing users of sewers or sewer systems of
the
cities
and towns, a charge for the use of the sewers or sewer systems in an amount
that bears a
reasonable
relation to the cost to the city or town of the service rendered to the users;
provided,
that in
the case of the towns of Narragansett, Cumberland and Tiverton and the
city of
Woonsocket,
all unpaid charges shall be a lien upon the real estate of the users, and
provided
further
that, in the case of the city of Woonsocket and the town of Cumberland,
the lien created
hereby
shall be a lien upon the house, building, tenement, lands and estate of the
user in the same
way and
manner as taxes assessed on real estate are liens, and if not paid as required
by the city
of
Woonsocket or the town of Cumberland, shall be collected in the same
manner that taxes
assessed
upon real estate are by law collected.
SECTION
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Rhode Island general laws section 45-
14-1,
the Cumberland town council may, by ordinance set fees related to the
connection of newly
installed
town sewer lines. Such fees may be set to gradually increase over a set period
of time.
SECTION
3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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