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The City of Topeka, Kansas, shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to plan, alter, enlarge, extend, improve, construct, reconstruct, develop, redevelop, operate and maintain a sewer system or sewer systems, including such powers as the City of Topeka may, from time to time, establish by way of ordinances adopted by the governing body of the city and including, but not by way of limitation, the following powers:

(a) To impose service charges on property served by the City’s Sewer System or Sewer Systems. The method of calculating and fixing such service charge shall be as established by ordinance heretofore or hereafter adopted;

(b) To provide that sewer service charges authorized in subparagraph (a) above shall, when delinquent, be certified by the Clerk of the City to the County Clerk of Shawnee County to be placed on the tax roll for collection, subject to the same penalties and to be collected in like manner as other taxes, and such charges shall, thereafter, constitute a lien upon the real estate served by the Sewer System or Sewer Systems and against which such charges were made;

(c) To use the proceeds of the sewer service charges authorized in subparagraph (a) above to plan, alter, enlarge, extend, improve, construct, reconstruct, develop, redevelop, operate and maintain a Sewer System or Sewer Systems;

(d) To issue general obligation bonds or revenue bonds, as authorized by law, and to use the proceeds of the same to plan, alter, enlarge, extend, improve, construct, reconstruct, develop, operate and maintain a Sewer System or Sewer Systems;

(e) To use the proceeds of the sewer service charges authorized in subparagraph (a) above to pay the principal and interest on bonds heretofore or hereafter issued for the planning, altering, enlarging, extending, improving, constructing, reconstructing, developing, redeveloping, operating and maintaining of a Sewer System or Sewer Systems;

(f) To contract with agencies of the federal government, public bodies of this state or other states, or with any private person or body for jointly planning, altering, enlarging, extending, improving, constructing, reconstructing, developing, redeveloping, operating and maintaining a Sewer System or Sewer Systems;

(g) To contract with agencies of the federal government, public bodies of this state or other states or with any private person or body for receiving and treating sewer or stormwater from outside of the city limits of the city;

(h) To plan, alter, enlarge, extend, improve, construct, reconstruct, develop, redevelop, operate and maintain a Sewer System or Sewer Systems outside the city limits of the city and to have the right of eminent domain outside the city limits of the City in order to acquire land and right-of-way for a Sewer System or Sewer Systems;

(i) To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions or any other form of financial assistance from the federal government, the state, county or any other public body for the purposes of this act, and the city may, when contracting with the federal government for any such financial assistance, include in any such contract such conditions imposed pursuant to federal law as the city may deem reasonable and appropriate;

(j) To, under authority granted herein, establish a sanitary Sewer System utility, a storm Sewer System utility, and to combine its sanitary Sewer System utility and storm Sewer System utility and its water utility into one or more utilities; and

(k) To establish a unified and consolidated billing system for its sanitary Sewer System utility, its storm Sewer System utility and its water utility, whether or not the same are combined as provided for in subparagraph (j) above. (C.O. 84 § 3, 6-11-96.)