Chapter 13.16
WATER AND SEWER FACILITY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

Sections:

13.16.010    Connection contracts.

13.16.010 Connection contracts.

A.    The city council may from time to time, as it deems necessary, advisable and as required by RCWs as they currently exist or as amended after the date of execution of the ordinance codified in this section, contract with owners of real estate for the construction of storm, sanitary or combination sewers, pumping stations and disposal plants, water mains, hydrants, reservoirs or appurtenances, hereinafter called “water or sewer facilities,” within the corporate limits of the city or within ten miles of the corporate limits connecting with the public water or sewerage system to serve the area in which real estate of such owners is located, and to provide for a period of not to exceed twenty years for the reimbursement of such owners and their assigns by any owner of real estate who did not contribute to the original cost of such sewer or water facilities, and who subsequently connects to or uses the same, of the fair pro rata share of the cost of construction of the water or sewer facilities, including not only those directly connected thereto, but also users connected to laterals or branches connecting thereto, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the city council may provide in accordance with its adopted policies and standards.

B.    The owner must submit a request for a contract to the municipality prior to the approval of the engineering plans. The request shall include an application, engineer’s estimate, current application fee, draft agreement, proposed assessment roll with legal descriptions, names, addresses and parcel numbers and maps. Within one hundred twenty days of the completion of a water or sewer facility, the owners of the real estate must submit the total costs of the water or sewer facility to the city, including copies of the construction contracts, invoices and cancelled checks. The city will not process the agreement until all required conditions of the project are complete.

C.    The provisions of such contract shall not be effective as to any owner of real estate not a party thereto unless such contract shall have been recorded in the office of the county auditor for Thurston County prior to the time such owner taps into or connects to the water or sewer facilities.

(Ord. O2014-014, Amended, 09/02/2014; Ord. 397, Added, 08/02/1960)