Sec. 12.  EXPENDITURES FOR RELOCATION OR REPLACEMENT OF SANITATION SEWER OR WATER LATERALS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.  The legislature by general law may authorize a city or town to expend public funds for the relocation or replacement of sanitation sewer laterals  or water laterals on private property if the relocation or replacement is done in conjunction with or immediately following the replacement or relocation of sanitation sewer mains or water mains serving the property.  The law must authorize the city or town to affix, with the consent of the owner of the private property, a lien on the property for the cost of relocating or replacing the laterals on the property and must provide that the cost shall be assessed against the property with repayment by the property owner to be amortized over a period not to exceed five years at a rate of interest to be set as provided by the law.  The lien may not be enforced until after five years have expired since the date the lien was affixed.  
(Added Nov. 8, 1983; amended Nov. 5, 1985.)