Chapter 461. Regulating assessments for water mains in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 461.— An Act Regulating assessments for water mains in the District of Columbia. February 21, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. That hereafter, whenever aDistrict of Columbia. water main or mains shall be laid in the District of Columbia, theAssessments for water mains. water-main assessment or tax therefor authorized by law shall be assessed within thirty days after such water main or mains shall— when made. have been laid, and the owner or owners affected by this assessment or tax shall be notified that the same has been assessed, by a notice which— notice. shall be served upon the owner of the lot or parcel of land to be assessed if he or she be a resident of the District of Columbia and his or her residence known.
If the owner be a nonresident, or his or— service. her residence unknown, the notice shall be served on his or her agent or tenant, The service of such notice where the owner or his or her agent or tenant resides in the District of Columbia shall be either personal or by leaving the same with some person of suitable age at the residence or place of business of such owner, agent, or tenant: and return of such service, stating the manner thereof, shall be made in 800writing and filed in the office of the Commissioners of the District of Notice where no agent, etc.Columbia.
If there be no agent or tenant known to said Commissioners, notice of such assessment shall be given by the officer designated by the Commissioners to perform that duty under authorityVol. 30, p. 721. vested in them by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the reassessment of water-main taxes in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by advertisement once a week for two successive weeks in some How assessments payable.newspaper published in said District.
Water-main assessments or taxes shall be payable in three equal installments, the first of which shall be payable without interest within thirty days from the date of such service or of the last publication of said notice, as the ease may be; the second within one year, and the third within two years from the date of such service or of the last publication of said notice; and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be charged on all amounts which shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty days from the date of such service or of the last publication of said notice.
In said publication of said notice each several piece of property shallPublication. be described in a separate paragraph. The cost of publication of the notice herein provided for shall be added to the amount of said assessment and collected in the same manner that said assessment is collected. Sec. 2. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith areRepeals. hereby repealed. Approved, February 21, 1901.