§4229. Service charge where revenues of garbage or sewerage facilities are pledged

Where the revenues pledged to the payment of bonds under this Subpart are revenues of a utility comprised of sewerage facilities or garbage facilities, the governing authority of the municipal corporation or district may impose against the owners of all real property in the municipal corporation or district a service charge for the facilities afforded by the utility, which charge shall not be a lien upon the property. The charges to be made shall be in amounts which the governing body shall determine in each year and shall be sufficient to provide for the cost of operating and maintaining the utility and to pay interest on and principal of the bonds secured by the revenues of the utility. No such charge shall be made against the owner of any property which is not benefited by the utility. A list of the names of all owners against whom charges are made and the amounts of the charges made against each owner may be certified by the governing authority to the official charged with the assessment of taxes against such property at such time and in such manner in each year so as to permit the amount of the charge to be carried upon the assessment roll of the real property in the municipal corporation or district. Each such charge may be carried on the roll as a special item due by the owner of the property individually, and may be identified on the roll as "Special Sewerage Charge or Special Garbage Charge, as the case may be, of ________ (inserting the name of the municipal corporation or district)." Such charges may be paid to the official who collects the general taxes assessed against the real property located in the municipal corporation or district and may be paid at the same time and in the same manner as general taxes are paid. Where the ownership of real property changes the municipal corporation or district may require any subsequent owner seeking sewerage or garbage service to apply therefor by proper application, whereupon the charges to be so imposed against such owner may be assessed and collected in the manner hereinabove provided. The municipal corporation or district may pay the tax collecting official the same commission on the amounts collected by him as he receives for the collection of ad valorem taxes, and may pay the assessing official a sum sufficient to reimburse him for the additional expense occasioned by reason of listing the charges on the assessment roll. The amounts to be so paid to the assessor and collector shall be considered one of the costs of operating and maintaining the utility.

Amended by Acts 1976, No. 505, §1.