19-3541. Special maintenance tax levy; user charges.
19-3541
19-3541. Special maintenance tax levy;
user charges.
(a) The board shall have power to levy annually a special maintenance tax of
not to exceed 10 mills on the assessed valuation on
all real estate and improvements within the water district for the
purpose of creating a maintenance fund to be used solely for the purpose
of maintaining and keeping in repair water wells, water lines and other
water production and distribution facilities.
(b) In addition to the levy authorized by subsection (a), for the purpose
of paying all or any portion of the cost of constructing or reconstructing
the water production and distribution system and the operation and maintenance
thereof, the governing body may establish a schedule of charges to be assessed
against users of the water production and distribution system of the district.
Such charges may be graduated, based on the use required, and shall include
consideration of, but not be limited to, the
quantity and rate of delivery of water provided. Any such levy or service
charge shall become a lien upon the property against which the levy or service
charge is made from the date the levy or service charge becomes due.
History: L. 1961, ch. 472, § 6; L. 1978, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1983,
ch. 104, § 1; July 1.