19-3541. Special maintenance tax levy; user charges. (a) The board shall have power to levy annually a special maintenance tax of not to exceed 10 mills on the assessed valuation on all real estate and improvements within the water district for the purpose of creating a maintenance fund to be used solely for the purpose of maintaining and keeping in repair water wells, water lines and other water production and distribution facilities.

(b) In addition to the levy authorized by subsection (a), for the purpose of paying all or any portion of the cost of constructing or reconstructing the water production and distribution system and the operation and maintenance thereof, the governing body may establish a schedule of charges to be assessed against users of the water production and distribution system of the district. Such charges may be graduated, based on the use required, and shall include consideration of, but not be limited to, the quantity and rate of delivery of water provided. Any such levy or service charge shall become a lien upon the property against which the levy or service charge is made from the date the levy or service charge becomes due.

History: L. 1961, ch. 472, § 6; L. 1978, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1983, ch. 104, § 1; July 1.