12-619.   Cost of main sewers, how determined; ordinance; lands notsubject to assessment.If the estimated cost of the main sewer or drain of said system now orhereafter constructed shall be relatively large as compared with theestimated cost of the lateral sewers or drains tributary thereto, or if thesaid main sewer or drain shall be so located that it will or may receivethe sewage or drainage from two or more districts, the governing body shallhave power to pass an ordinance providing that the cost of such main seweror drain below a certain designated point shall be borne by the city andpaid in the manner provided in K.S.A. 12-624 for the payment of the cost ofmain sewers and drains now or hereafter constructed beyond the corporatelimits of the city. If the said main sewer or drain shall be so locatedthat it will or may receive the sewage or drainage from two or moredistricts, the governing body shall have power to pass an ordinanceproviding that the cost of such sewer or drain below a certain designatedpoint shall be divided among the said districts as nearly as possible inproportion to the benefits which the respective districts will eventuallyreceive from the use of the said sewer drain, and that the proportion ofthe cost assigned to each district shall be assessed against that districtin the manner provided by law: Provided, That the said ordinance shallstate the point in the line of the main sewer or drain below which theprovisions of this section shall apply, shall describe the proposedlocation of the said main sewer or drain from the said point to the outletof the same or to the city limits, and shall state the manner of payment ofthe cost of the said main sewer or drain, whether by the city or by thetributary districts, and if by the tributary districts shall fix theproportion of the cost to be assessed against said district: Providedfurther, That any land within the corporate limits of any city whichland is served by county or township sewers shall not be subject toassessment as herein provided.

      History:   R.S. 1923, § 12-619; L. 1955, ch. 78, § 1; L.1965, ch. 92, § 1; May 14.