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9-48-48. Estimates and report to governing body where costs to be assessed according to frontage and assessed valuation. If the cost is to be apportioned according to frontage and assessed valuation as described in § 9-48-45, the engineer or other competent person shall make an estimate for a special assessment upon the several lots within the sewerage district within or for the benefit of which such sewer is to be constructed, and shall report to the governing body the facts regarding such improvement as follows:
(1) The total cost of such main or trunk sewer, including the contract price and all other expenses incidental thereto, but deducting therefrom any portion of said cost to be assumed and paid by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of § 9-48-44;
(2) The total number of feet frontage of land within the sewerage district fronting or abutting upon the street or streets, alley or alleys in which such main or trunk sewer is to be constructed or abutting on such sewer where the same is not laid in any street or alley;
(3) The total assessed valuation according to the last assessment of all the real property situated within such sewerage district exclusive of improvements;
(4) A full description, together with the owner's name and the number of feet of frontage of each lot or part of lot within the sewerage district fronting or abutting upon the street or streets, alley or alleys, in which such main or trunk sewer is to be constructed or abutting on such sewer where the same is not laid in any street or alley;
(5) An estimate of the cost of the construction of a service sewer along the same course as that in which such main or trunk sewer is to be constructed, of sufficient size and depth to provide sewerage for the abutting property if it were not to be used as a main or trunk sewer, and of construction suitable for the connection of properties in such district for the total distance which such main or trunk sewer is to be constructed within such district, and the amount it would be necessary to assess upon each lot or part of lot fronting or abutting upon the street or alley in which such sewer is to be constructed, or abutting on such sewer where the same is not laid in any street or alley, to pay the cost of such sewer, determining such amount by dividing the total cost of such improvement by the number of feet fronting or abutting upon such street or streets, alley or alleys, and the quotient shall be the amount assessed per front foot upon the property fronting or abutting thereon;
(6) The amount which will be required to construct such main or trunk sewer in addition to the amount to be assessed against the lot or parts of lots fronting or abutting upon the street or alley in which such main or trunk sewer is to be constructed, or fronting or abutting upon such main or trunk sewer where the same is not laid in any street or alley, which shall be determined by deducting the total amount so assessed against the abutting property from the total costs of the construction of such main or trunk sewer, which amount so remaining shall be apportioned to each lot or part of lot within such district according to the assessed valuation thereon, exclusive of improvements.

Source: SL 1909, ch 110, § 10; SL 1911, ch 228, § 1; RC 1919, § 6377; SL 1921, ch 317; SDC 1939, § 45.1807; SL 1949, ch 187, § 4.