1. A city may assess to private property within the city the cost of construction and repair of public improvements within the city, and main sewers, sewage pumping stations, disposal and treatment plants, waterworks, water mains, extensions, and drainage conduits extending outside the city.
2. Upon petition as provided in section 384.41, subsection 1, a city may assess to private property affected by public improvements within three miles of the city's boundaries the cost of construction and repair of public improvements within that area. The right of way of a railway company shall not be assessed unless the company joins as a petitioner for said improvements. In the petition the property owners shall waive the limitation provided in section 384.62 that an assessment may not exceed twenty-five percent of the value of the lot. The petition shall contain a statement that the owners agree to pay the city an amount equal to five percent of the cost of the improvements, to cover administrative expenses incurred by the city. This amount may be added to the cost of the improvements. Before the council may adopt the resolution of necessity, the preliminary resolution, preliminary plans and specifications, plat, schedule, and estimate of cost must be submitted to, and receive written approval from the board of supervisors of any county which contains part of the property, and the city development board established in section 368.9.
3. A city may establish, by ordinance after notice and a public hearing consistent with the requirements of section 384.50, one or more districts and schedules of fees for the connection of property to the city sewer or water utility. Each person whose property will be served by connecting to the city sewer or water utility shall pay a connection fee to the city. The ordinance shall be certified by the city and recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which a district is located. The connection fees are due and payable when a utility connection application is filed with the city. A connection fee shall not exceed the equitable part of the total original cost to the city of extending the utility to the properties within the district, less any part of the cost which has been previously assessed or paid to the city under this division IV. All fees collected under this subsection shall be paid to the city treasurer. The moneys collected as fees shall only be used for the purposes of operating the utility, or to pay debt service on obligations issued to finance improvements or extensions to the utility.
[SS15, § 840-d, -g; C24, § 5985, 5986; C27, 31, 35, § 5985, 5986, 6190-a1; C39, § 5985, 5986, 6190.01; C46, § 391.12, 391.13, 401.1; C50, § 391.12, 391.13, 391A.2, 401.1, 420.56; C54, 58, 62, § 391.12, 391.13, 391A.2, 401.1; C66, 71, 73, § 390A.3, 390A.18, 391.12, 391.13, 391A.2, 401.1; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 384.38]
94 Acts, ch 1073, §1
Referred to in § 384.68
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