§ 18-15. Cost of constructing sewers [as general cost]; assessments and payments therefor.

The common council may provide by ordinance that the cost of a sewer shall be borne wholly as a general city charge. Except where the common council shall so provide by ordinance that the cost of a sewer shall be borne wholly as a general city charge, the cost of constructing all sewers in the city of Syracuse, the cost of which shall not have been heretofore assessed, shall be assessed and collected pro rata per linear foot of property fronting or abutting upon the street or part thereof in or through which such sewer is to be or has been constructed, except that corner lots abutting upon more than one street shall be taxed and assessed only for the shorter foot frontage and the longer foot frontage in excess of one hundred (100) feet. The cost of said sewers including the expenses associated with the design, construction, inspection and other related and necessary work shall be raised pursuant to the local finance law and paid into an account designated by the commissioner of finance. The cost of constructing intercepting sewers, however, shall be borne by the city-at-large.

(N.Y. Laws 1905, Ch. 684, § 14; N.Y. Laws 1907, Ch. 131, § 1; N.Y. Laws 1923, Ch. 303, § 1; N.Y. Laws 1943, Ch. 710, Pt. 3, § 952; L.L. No. 11-1946, § 1; L.L. No. 3-1955, § 1; L.L. No. 31-1970, § 1; L.L. No. 14-1987, § 2)

Editor's note

Except for bracketed language, the catchline for the above section was contained in the legislation from which it is derived.