§ 19.25. Council may hold in abeyance certain water and sewer assessments.

(a)

The city council may provide by resolution that assessments levied against abutting lots or parcels of land for water main improvements, or sanitary sewer improvements, when in its opinion such improvements may not presently be used by the owner or owners of the abutting lots or parcels of land, may be held in abeyance without the payment of any interest thereon until such time as the council shall determine that any such assessment shall be paid in accordance with the terms set out in the confirming resolution. A part of the assessments, levied for the improvements herein set out on a street or streets, or portion thereof, may be held in abeyance as herein provided without holding of all such assessments in abeyance.

(b)

All statutes of limitations, and particularly the statute of limitations provided for in section 160A-233 of the General Statutes of the state are hereby suspended during the time that any assessment is held in abeyance without the payment of interest as provided in subsection (a) of this section. Such time shall not be a part of the time limited for the commencement of action for the enforcement of the payment of any such assessment, and such action may be brought at any time within ten (10) years from the date of the adoption of a resolution by the council, determining that such assessment shall be paid in accordance with the original resolution confirming it.

(c)

Nothing herein shall be construed to revive any right of action [that has] heretofore been barred by the statute of limitations.

(Sess. Laws 1981, Ch. 374, § 1(11))