19-3541.   Special maintenance tax levy; user charges.(a) The board shall have power to levy annually a special maintenance tax ofnot to exceed 10 mills on the assessed valuation onall real estate and improvements within the water district for thepurpose of creating a maintenance fund to be used solely for the purposeof maintaining and keeping in repair water wells, water lines and otherwater production and distribution facilities.

      (b) In addition to the levy authorized by subsection (a), for the purposeof paying all or any portion of the cost of constructing or reconstructingthe water production and distribution system and the operation and maintenancethereof, the governing body may establish a schedule of charges to be assessedagainst users of the water production and distribution system of the district. Such charges may be graduated, based on the use required, and shall includeconsideration of, but not be limited to, thequantity and rate of delivery of water provided. Any such levy or servicecharge shall become a lien upon the property against which the levy or servicecharge 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.