Assessment Charge. Each applicant for water service hereafter, who shall be connected to a water transmission or distribution main of the municipal water utility, shall be required to pay the municipal water utility an assessment charge equal to nine dollars and thirty cents per lineal foot of the applicant's lot or land abutting thereon. The provisions of this section shall not apply, however, to an applicant's lot or land served by a donated water main extension described in Section 13.08.200, nor to an applicant served by a lot which was the subject of an agreement dated before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section between an owner or developer and the utility provided for a deposit and subsequent refund, described in Chapter 13.08. If no part, or an unusual part, in the judgment of the municipal water utility, of the applicant's lot or land shall abut said water transmission main or distribution main, such applicant shall be required to pay the municipal water utility an assessment charge as shall be determined to be fair and equitable in the sole judgment of the municipal water utility. Such assessment charge shall be in addition to the following:

    A.    The installation and tap on charge provided in Section 13.12.010;

    B.    The meter deposit provided in Chapter 13.08; and,

    C.    Such service rates and charges established for water service.

    Such assessment charge shall be paid in full before construction of such water transmission main or distribution main is commenced, if such construction shall be required to provide such water service, and before water service will be furnished by the municipal water utility except as follows: if the property owner shall make application to the municipal water utility for a residential service account, then at the time application for such service is made, or on or before the date such property owner shall be required to connect to the water system of the municipal water utility, the municipal water utility may permit such assessment charge, with interest as herein provided, to be paid in a maximum of one hundred twenty equal, consecutive monthly payments commencing with the month and day of such application. Interest is to be computed monthly, upon the principal sum unpaid at the beginning of each monthly period. The rate of interest is to be that rate in effect at the time of application, as established by the utility service board from time to time. The amount of interest so found due shall be deducted from the amount of aggregate monthly payments made each month and the balance of the aggregate of such monthly payments shall be credited against the principal due. Prepayment shall be permitted without penalty. The deferred payments on such assessment charge shall be evidenced by a promissory note.

    Such assessment charge shall not be refunded to the applicant. (Ord. 89-71 § 1, 1989: prior code § 33-7)