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with the City Administrator, the Council may by resolution direct that sanitary plumbing and sewer connection be made and the cost of the installation shall be paid in the first instance by the City out of the general fund of the City and the actual cost thereof shall thereafter be assessed against the property benefited. After such installation and connection is completed there shall be served a written notice of such assessment and an order directing the owner of the property, or his representative, to pay the assessment within ten (10) days after service of the written notice, to the City Treasurer, and after proof of such notice and order if the assessments have not been paid within the ten (10) days, the same shall be certified to the County Auditor for collection as other assessments for benefits, except that such assessments may be spread over a term of three (3) years, if so requested when certified, and the said assessment shall become a lien upon the property until paid. 205.160. RECITALS. The Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, a metropolitan commission organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota (the "Commission "), in order to receive and retain grants in compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 and regulations thereunder (the "Act "), has determined to impose an industrial user sewer strength charge upon users of the Metropolitan Disposal System (as defined in Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.121, Subdivision 24) to recover operation and maintenance costs of treatment works attributable to the strength of the discharge of industrial waste, such sewer strength charge being in addition to the charge based upon the volume of discharge. In order for the City to pay such costs based upon strength of charges and a formula for the computation thereof for all industrial users receiving waste treatment services within or served by the City. Furthermore, Minnesota Statutes, Section 444.075, Subdivision 3, empowers the City to make such sewer charge a charge against the owner, lessee, occupant or all of them and certify unpaid charges to the County Auditor as a tax lien against the property served. 205.170. ESTABLISHMENT OF STRENGTH CHARGES. For the purpose of paying the costs allocated to the City each year by the Commission that are based upon the strength of discharge of all industrial users receiving waste treatment services within or served by the City, there is hereby approved, adopted and established, in addition to the sewer charge based upon the volume of discharge, a sewer charge upon each person, company or corporation receiving waste treatment services within or served by the City, based upon strength of industrial waste discharged into the sewer system of the City (the "Strength Charge "). 205.180. ESTABLISHMENT OF STRENGTH CHARGE FORMULA. For the purpose of computation of the Strength Charge established by Section 205.170 hereof, there is hereby established, approved and adopted in compliance with the Act the same strength charge formula designated in Resolution No. 76 -172 adopted by the governing body of the Commission on June 15, 1976, such formula being based upon pollution qualities and difficulty of disposal of the sewage produced through an evaluation of pollution qualities and quantities in excess of an annual average base and the proportionate costs of operation and maintenance of waste treatment services provided by the Commission. 205 -10