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Any person who has a sewer available to their property but who on the date of their application to connect to a sewer is using a subsurface sewage disposal system and/or any person whose property is included in a sewer LID established after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, may, in either case, enter into a written installment contract with the city on a form approved by the city attorney and signed for the city by the director or their designate. Such contract shall include or incorporate the legal description of the property, be signed by the owner of the property and provide for the property owner to pay their connection fee (systems development charge computed under VMC 14.04.235) as specified in the contract over a term of ten years in annual installments or as may be provided in the contract. Such contract shall provide for interest to be paid at the rate shown for revenue bonds in the then most recent Revenue Bond Chart issued weekly as the “Municipal Bond Index Merrill Lynch 500,” plus one percent. Such interest shall be computed and compounded annually on the unpaid balance. Such contract shall provide that the property owner may at any time pay off such contract without penalty and shall provide that upon any sale or transfer of ownership of the property the contract shall become due and be paid in full. Such contract shall provide that the property owner shall pay off such contract upon any future land division, prior to final plat approval. Such contract shall be filed by the city with the county auditor. Delinquent payments under such installment contracts shall be a lien upon the described property as provided in RCW 35.67.200, enforceable in accordance with RCW 35.67.220 through 35.67.280 , and as an additional or concurrent method of enforcement, water service to the property may be terminated in accordance with RCW 35.67.290 until the delinquent payments have been paid. Upon full payment of the contract the director of financial and management services or their designate shall execute and mail to such property owner a release of such lien. The interest shall be the only compensation to the city for its administrative costs.

The provisions of this section are only to provide an alternative for eligible property owners and they may choose to pay such fee in cash.

In any local improvement district approved by ordinance after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, such a contract may be entered into with any property owner in the LID and shall provide for payments to be made annually at the same time as payment of the LID assessment or as is otherwise provided in such contract, but such contractual obligation shall not be a part of the assessment nor be included in the assessment roll. (Ord. M-4359 § 1, 2021; Ord. M-4022 § 23, 2012; Ord. M-2867 § 3, 1990; Ord. M-2848 § 5, 1989; Ord. M-2568 § 1, 1985)