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ORDINANCE NO. 3546 AN ORDINANCE regulating the cnnstruction, operation and maintenance of public and private sewers, plumbing and drainage, and providing for the making of connections therewith; compell- ing connection to public sewers and fixing liens and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof; and repealing all ordin- ances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: CONNECTION, HOW UNLAWFUL It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to make any connection with, or in any manner obstruct, interfere with, alter or repair any sewer or drainage piping within the corporate limits of the City of Everett, except as hereinafter provided. Section 2: WHAT TO BE CONNECTED Every dwelling house, hotel, apartment, tenement house, factory, store or other building in which plumbing arrangements have been, or are to be placed, hard surfaced parking lots and like areas shall be connected to the public sewer as required in this ordinance, when such public sewer is provided within three hundred feet (300' ) of the property line of the premises on whic such buildings or areas are located and, when such public sewer is not provided, such building and/or areas shall be connected to a septic disposal system, meeting all requirements of the City of Everett. Section 3: CITY ENGINEER TO COMPEL CONNECTION AND LTFN FOR COSTS The Commissioner of Public Work, the City Engineer or such other person as the Commissioner shall appoint, are hereby empowered, and is hereby made their duty to compel the owners or the occupant of any lot or parcel of real property, the property line of which is located within 300 feet of a public sewer, to cause to be connected to such public sewer a sufficient sewer or drain pipe from all buildings and structures located thereon used for human occupancy or for use for any other purpose, pro- vided, further, that said officers are hereby empowered and it i- hereby their duty to compel the owners or occupants of any lot or parcel of real property upon which pools, ditches, water courses or waste water pipes are located, which are used as a receptacle or for drainage purposes, the property line of which is located within 300 feet of a combined or storm sewer, to cause to be connected a sufficient sewer or drain pipe from said pools, ditches, water courses or waste water pipes to said sewer. Provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporation to make or attempt to make more than one (1) connection to one "Y" or to make more than one (1) such connection to any one standpipe and no "Y" or standpipe which already has one such connection shall be considered as an access •le point in such sewer as the term is herein used, and provided further, that no connection shall be made through the top of any standpipe. Any person who shall fail to comply with the orders of the Commissioner of Public Works or his duly authorized representative as provided in this section shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance. If any such connection herein required shall not be made within thirty (30) days after written notice from the Commission' of Public Works or his duly authorized representative to the