Chapter 144
2009 -- S 0247
Enacted 07/16/09
A N A C T
RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- SEWER CHARGES
Introduced
By: Senators
Date
Introduced: February 11, 2009
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,
Woonsocket and All
unpaid charges shall be a lien upon the real estate of the
users, and provided further that, in the case of the
cities of
town of 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
Cumberland, each
city and town shall be collected in the same manner that taxes assessed
upon
real estate are by law collected.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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