§ 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. All unpaid charges shall be a lien upon the real estate of the users, and 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 each city and town shall be collected in the same manner that taxes assessed upon real estate are by law collected.
History of Section. (P.L. 1947, ch. 1836, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 45-14-1; P.L. 1978, ch. 307, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 355, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 207, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 334, § 1; P.L. 2002, ch. 24, § 1; P.L. 2002, ch. 94, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 36, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 47, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 360, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 114, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 144, § 1.)
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