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SAN LEANDRO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TITLE 8 ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORTATION Chapter 11 Financing of Sewer Lateral Connections to City Sewerage System 48.11.100 GENERAL. San Leandro Municipal Code (SLMC) section 3 -14 •640 provides that the operation, maintenance, and repair of private sewer laterals are the responsibility of the property owner or User, as that term is defined in SLMC section 3- 14- 200(bm). City upgrades to its public sewerage collection, disposal, and treatment system ( "sewerage system ") are ongoing. To that end, this Administrative Code provision defines a procedure for private sewer lateral reconnection whenever the City determines that a main line sewer must be abandoned and a new mainline sewer constructed in an alternate location. This Administrative Code Chapter describes the process by which the City may build, upon the cooperation of an affected property owner or User, a private sewer lateral from the sewerage system to the property line ( "lower lateral ") and upon completion, transfer responsibility for the new lower lateral to the property owner. This Administrative Code Chapter also describes the process by which the City will offer property owners or Users an optional and completely voluntary private sewer line financing program to fund the costs of constructing a new private sewer line (the "upper lateral ") to the lower lateral. This administrative code provision does not alter a property owner's or User's legal obligations as provided in San Leandro Municipal Code section 3 -14 -640. 48.11.200 NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT. Whenever the City undertakes the abandonment of a section of the sewerage system, affected property owners and Users will be given the following notice: (1) That the section of the sewerage system in question will be abandoned not sooner than 365 days from the date of the notice; (2) The location of an existing alternate sewer main or work to be performed by the City to construct a new sewer main to serve the property; (3) The impacts to the User or property owner's private sewer lateral currently connected to the section scheduled for abandonment; (4) what actions the property owner or User must take to connect to the sewerage system; and (5) the optional and voluntary private sewer lateral financing program that the City will make available to all affected property owners pursuant to this administrative code. 48.11.300 LOWER SEWER LATERAL CONSTRUCTION RESPONSIBILITY TRANSFER. A property owner or User shall have 45 days from the date of the notice in section 8.11.200 to: 1) Enter into an agreement with the City whereby the City and property owner or User agree to cooperate to locate the property's private sewer facilities, and upon identification of such facilities; 2) Enter into a written agreement with the City by which the property owner, upon completion of construction of the new lower lateral by the City, will assume responsibility for the operation, maintenance and repair of the lower lateral. Upon execution of the agreement, the City shall construct a new lower lateral from the sewerage system to the property line. 48.11.350 LOWER SEWER LATERAL FAILURE TO COOPERATE. In the event that a property owner does not execute an agreement with the City pursuant to section 8.1 1.300 within 45 days of the notice, City shall not construct a lower lateral to the property line. Failure to execute an agreement described in section 8.11.300 shall be prima facie evidence