§ 45-14-1 - Power to assess charges against users. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 45-14-1

   § 45-14-1  Power to assess charges againstusers. – In addition to the powers, privileges, prerogatives, and authority that are nowgranted to each city and town, or any agency of a city or town, in connectionwith sewers or sewer systems of these municipalities, each city and town isauthorized and empowered to enact ordinances assessing users of sewers or sewersystems of the cities and towns, a charge for the use of the sewers or sewersystems in an amount that bears a reasonable relation to the cost to the cityor town of the service rendered to the users. All unpaid charges shall be alien upon the real estate of the users, and the lien created hereby shall be alien upon the house, building, tenement, lands and estate of the user in thesame way and manner as taxes assessed on real estate are liens, and if not paidas required by each city and town shall be collected in the same manner thattaxes assessed upon real estate are by law collected.