When the council of any city or town shall determine to purchase any sewers or sewer system under the provisions of this division, the cost of which or any part thereof is proposed to be assessed against the property abutting on or drained by said sewers or sewer system, it shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to that effect, describing the sewers or sewer system proposed to be purchased, giving the name or names of the owner or owners of said sewers or sewer system and establishing or describing the territory or area abutting on or drained or that may be drained by such sewers or sewer system and defining the same by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other lines by which the same is bounded.
In said ordinance the council shall direct that the city or town engineer or such other person as may be designated in such ordinance or resolution survey said sewers or sewer system and prepare maps and profiles showing the location of such sewers or sewer system and appurtenances thereto, their sizes, grades, and the materials of which they are constructed, or they may adopt any such survey, maps and profiles, and report heretofore made by any engineer under the authority of the council.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.
Article 3 - Acquisition, Operation, etc., of Sewers or Sewer Systems by Municipalities Generally.
Division 2 - Purchase of Sanitary Sewers or Sewer Systems and Assessments Therefor.
Section 11-50-70 - "Council" Defined.
Section 11-50-71 - Authorized.
Section 11-50-73 - Filing of Maps, Profiles, etc., in Office of Engineer for Public Inspection.
Section 11-50-76 - Publication of Ordinance or Resolution.
Section 11-50-78 - Payment of Portion of Costs of Purchase by Council; Costs of Purchase Specified.
Section 11-50-79 - Assessment of Cost of Sewers or Sewer System Against Abutting Lands Authorized.
Section 11-50-82 - Effect and Correction of Defects or Errors in Notice.
Section 11-50-83 - Filing of Written Objections, etc., to Proposed Assessments by Property Owners.
Section 11-50-84 - Hearing Upon Objections, etc., to Assessments.
Section 11-50-85 - Fixing of Amount of Assessments by Council and Effect Thereof.
Section 11-50-86 - Assignment and Transfer of Assessment Liens.
Section 11-50-87 - Enforcement of Assessment Liens in Circuit Court.
Section 11-50-88 - Effect of Enforcement of Tax Liens Upon Property Upon Assessment Liens.
Section 11-50-90 - Appeals From Assessments.
Section 11-50-91 - Payment of Assessments Generally.
Section 11-50-95 - Redemption of Property After Sale.
Section 11-50-96 - Issuance of Bonds to Pay for Sewers or Sewer System Authorized Generally.
Section 11-50-97 - Making of Loans and Issuance of Bonds to Pay for Sewers or Sewer System.
Section 11-50-98 - Form, Terms, Denominations, etc., of Bonds; Execution, Sale, etc., Thereof.
Section 11-50-99 - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale of Bonds.
Section 11-50-100 - Payment and Redemption of Bonds Generally.
Section 11-50-103 - Maintenance of Account and Disbursement of Proceeds From Assessments Generally.
Section 11-50-104 - Deposit of Assessment Proceeds in Bank; Manner of Withdrawal Thereof.
Section 11-50-105 - Use of Proceeds to Redeem Bonds and Coupons; Disposition of Excess.
Section 11-50-106 - Refunding of Excess Assessments - Authority and Procedure Generally.