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Attachment 3 13 <br />Durham Infrastruchire Assessment Policy <br />~_-- <br />ARTICLE 7. SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS <br />Sec. 77. Assessments for water, sewer, street, sidewalks, grass plot, <br />lighting and waterfront improvements. <br />(1) It is the purpose of this section to provide a method whereby one or more <br />local improvements of the kind specified in subsection (4) of this section and the <br />assessments therefor may be made on or in one or more streets in a single <br />proceeding by the city. <br />(2) This section is intended to prescribe the complete procedure for the making <br />of those local improvements referred to in subsection (4) and for assessing and . <br />collecting such portion of the cost thereof as is hereinafter provided; but the <br />method hereby provided is not intended to be exclusive, and -the city may <br />proceed with respect to such local improvements either as prescribed by this <br />section or as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by the special or general law. <br />(3) In this section certain words and phrases will be used with the following <br />meaning, unless some other meaning is plainly intended: <br />(a) Alocal improvement is an improvement defined by this section and <br />made under the provisions hereof. <br />(b) Astreet is a public way embracing a street, boulevard, avenue, lane, <br />alley, parkway, court and terrace, but not embracing sidewalks. <br />(c) Asidewalk is a path for pedestrians along a street. <br />(d) Astorm sewer is a conduit above or below ground for the passage of <br />storm water, and may embrace a pumping station and outlet where <br />deemed necessary; and may also embrace the building or culverts over <br />or the enclosing of streams where necessary or advisable to carry off <br />storm water. <br />(e) Asanitary sewer is a conduit for the passage of sewage, and may <br />embrace a pumping station and outlet where deemed necessary. <br />(f) Awater main is a pipe for the passage of city water for public <br />hydrants and private and public use and consumption. <br />(g) Alateral is a pipe connecting a storm or sanitary sewer or water main <br />with the line of adjacent property or the curb line, as the city council may <br />prescribe, being either a sewer lateral or a water lateral, but does not <br />include a building connection, that is a pipe extending from a lateral at the <br />property line or a curb line to the house or plumbing fixtures on the <br />property to be served. <br />(h) The word sewer includes both sanitary and storm sewers unless a <br />contrary intention is shown. <br />(4) Improvements authorized to be made under the provisions of this section <br />are divided into eight (8) classes, as follows: <br />