Chapter 612. To amend 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
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CHAP. 612.— An Act To amend 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. June 2, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act entitled “An District of Columbia. Collection of water main taxes. Vol. 30, p. 721. 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, be, and the same is hereby, amended by 252 striking out the following words at the end of section two thereof: —when tax assessed.
“That said water-main tax, or assessment, or reassessment shall be due, payable, and collectible on each lot or parcel of land or premises on and after the date on which the connection is made from the water main to the said lot or parcel of land or premises,” and inserting in —notice. lieu thereof the following: “That hereafter, whenever a water main or mains shall be laid in the District of Columbia, the water-main assessment or tax authorized by law shall be assessed within thirty days after such water main or mains shall 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 inserted daily, Sundays excepted, for two weeks in two newspapers published in the District of Columbia, —how payable. and such assessment or tax shall be payable in four equal installments, the first of which shall be payable without interest within thirty days of the date of the last publication of said notice, the second within one year, the third within two years, and the fourth within three years —interest on overdue payments. from the date of the last publication of said notice, and interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum shall be charged on all amounts which shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty days from the *Proviso*. —abatement for payment in full. date of the last publication of said notice:
Provided, That if the assessment or tax is paid in full at any time within thirty days after the last publication of said notice an abatement of six per centum shall be Cost of publishing notice. allowed on the entire amount of said assessment. 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. Reimbursements for water mains laid in public streets, etc.
That in all cases where a water main has heretofore been or may hereafter be laid in a public street or way, and in order to secure the laying of such main the cost or a part thereof has been paid to the District of Columbia prior to the laying of said main by any person or corporation, there shall be repaid from time to time to such person or corporation, out of the collections from the assessment for such main, all of the amounts so paid over and above the assessment chargeable against the land owned or controlled by said person or corporation.
Sec. 3. Brightwood avenue; cancellation of unpaid taxes, etc. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to cancel the assessment of water-main taxes unpaid on Brightwood avenue for the laying of the water main about July twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from Fort Reno reservoir to and on Brightwood avenue from the Military road to Aspen street, where the water has not been introduced from said main on adjoining property since said water main was laid; and they are authorized and directed to reassess the tax for laying said main on Brightwood avenue according to existing law.
Sec. 4. Repeal. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, June 2, 1900.