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O R D I N A N C E
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR PRO -RATA
REIMBURSEMENT BY PROPERTY OWNERS OF
THE COST OF INSTALLATION OF PRIVATE
IMPROVEMENTS.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Buffalo Grove, Illinois to encourage the
development of property as far as possible; and,
WHEREAS, the President ant Board of Trustees in keeping with
the policies and activities of other Villages similarily situated,
the President and Board of Trustees wish to provide for reimbursement
by property owners of the cost of installation of private improve-
ments to prospective developers.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AI4D BOARD
OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, COOK AND LAKE COUNTIES,
ILLINOIS:
Section 1. Except where the Village has entered into
separate agreements, whenever any property owner shall have heretofore
or shall hereafter, at his own cost, construct, within the village
streets or public thoroughfares of the Village, pursuant to permit
and authority received from the President and Board of Trustees,
a sanitary or storm sewer, or waterline extention, in accordance
with Village Standards and specifications, inspected and approved
by the proper official of the Village, and when properties other
than the property of the person constructing such improvement shall
intervene and abut upon that section of the street within which
such improvement lies, then when the constructing owner shall
furnish certification and satisfactory evidence of the cost of such
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improvement, the Village Manager and Engineer shall investigate
the reasonableness thereof in accordance with existing prices, and
when the corporate authorities shall be satisfied as to such
reasonableness the Village Clerk shall make an appropriate record
of the nature, extent, location and cost of such improvement.
Section 2. Said improving owner shall further, prior to the
inception of the work upon such improvement, deposit with the
Village Clerk a waiver of liability of, or right of reimbursement,
from the Village of Buffalo Grove, of the cost of such improvement.
The improvement, after construction, shall become the property
of the Village.
Section 3. Whenever the owner or owners of any such intervening
property, or properties, shall thereafter apply to the Village for
a right to tap into, or make connection with, such privately
constructed sewer or waterline extension, then the Village Manager
and Engineer shall compute and certify to such applicant the pro -
rata cost of construction of that section of such line abutting
applicant's property, and shall, before issuing permit to tap into
or connect therewith, receive such pro -rata contribution for
reimbursement, and upon receipt thereof shall remit the same to the
person constructing such line. The determination of the Village
Manager and Engineer as to the amount of such contribution shall,
in the absence of willful fraud and misconduct, be conclusive
as between the Village and the person having constructed such line.
Section 4. The sums herein provided to be contributed by
intervening owners shall be in addition to, and exclusive of fees
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required and fixed by ordinance as inspection or permit fees for
connection with, or tap into. Village sewer and waterlines.
Section 5. When the owner of property contiguous to the
property of any owner who shall have previously constructed any
private improvement as above described, shall be desirous of
connecting to, and extending such sewer or waterline within the
public streets, then such extension shall be permitted only if in
the opinion of the Village Engineer, or Engineer acting for the
Village, the existing facility shall be adequate for such purpose,
and provided that such extension shall be made along the total
frontage of the property of the applicant owner abutting upon
such street.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval, as provided by law.
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