AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE OPERATION OF SEWERS IN THE TOWN OF ROCKPORT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3 of chapter 77 of the acts of 1950 is hereby amended by striking out, in line 1, the words "board of sewer and water" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- department of public works board of.
SECTION 2. Section 4 of said chapter 77 is hereby amended by striking out, in line 2, the words "board of sewer and water" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- department of public works board of.
SECTION 3. Said chapter 77 is hereby further amended by striking out section 5 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 5. The department of public works board of commissioners shall determine the cost of general benefit facilities, including, but not limited to, pumping, trunks and force mains, and the costs of special benefits facilities and determine and assess costs in accordance with all provisions of the General Laws relative to the assessment, apportionment, division reassessment, abatement, and collection of sewer assessments, to liens therefor and to interest thereon.
SECTION 4. Section 8 of said chapter 77 is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 1 and 2, the words "board of sewer and water" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- department of public works board of.
SECTION 5. Section 9 of said chapter 77 is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 6 and 7, the words "twenty dollars for each violation of any such rule or regulation" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- not exceeding $300 for each violation of any such rule or regulation. Each day shall constitute a separate violation.
SECTION 6. Said chapter 77 is hereby further amended by inserting after section 10 the following section:-
Section 10A. There shall be a sewer district in the town entitled the Long Beach Sewer District. The district shall include all of the town owned land located in the Long Beach section of the town of Rockport and houses approved to connect to the Long Beach sewer in accordance with the intermunicipal agreement for wastewater collection, treatment and disposal between the city of Gloucester and the town of Rockport, hereinafter called the agreement. The town shall assess the costs of all of the general benefit facilities, including, but not limited to, pumping, trunks and force mains, whether the general benefits facilities are located within the town or within the city, the costs of special benefits facilities, and the capacity purchase price as set forth in paragraph 16 of the agreement to the leases and any additional houses approved to connect to the Long Beach sewer. The lessees of the town owned land at Long Beach shall be assessed as if they were the fee simple owners of the leased land, except that the named lessee shall be personally liable for the cost of the assessment. Assessments shall be subject to the provisions of section 13 of chapter 80 of the General Laws, except that the board of assessors may, and at the request of the owner of the land assessed shall, apportion all assessments or unpaid balances thereof made under said chapter 80 into such number of equal portions, not exceeding 10 as determined by said board or as requested by the owner, as the case may be.