Any owner of property affected by the terms of said ordinance may protest in writing to the governing body of such city or town as to the amount of the rate affecting such property at any time within two weeks after the first publication of said ordinance and notice. The governing body shall sit as a board of adjustment, pursuant to the authority of this part 7, and shall hear and determine all such protests and determine the fairness of said rates. If the rates prescribed in the proposed ordinance are determined to be unreasonable, the governing body shall amend such ordinance before final passage to conform to its findings in the premises. The final determination of the governing body shall be conclusive in the premises.
Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1268, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 31-35-605 as it existed prior to 1975.