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November 22, 1909, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 3. POWERS AND DUTIES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS. The Commissioner of Public Works, the City Engineer, or such other person as the Commissioner shall appoint, are hereby empowered, and it 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 buildin^,s and structures located thereon used for human occupancy or for use for any other purpose; Provided further, that said officers are hereby empowered and it is 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 drain- ' age 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 the 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 any one "Y" or to make more than two (2) such connections at any one standpipe, and no "Y" or standpipe which already has one or two such connections, as the case may be, shall be considered as an accessible point in such sewer as the term is herein used. Porvided, further , that it shall be unlawful for any person to connect any basement with a city sewer without installing a back water sewage valve at the outlet. If any such connection shall not be made within thirty (30) days after written notice to the occupant or owner of such lot or parcel of property, building or structure by the Commissioner of Public Works or his duly authorized representative, the city is hereby- authorized and directed to cause such connection to be made and to file a statement of the cost thereof with the City Clerk and thereupon a warrant in the amount of such cost payable to the Sewer Department shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the direction of the City Commission and against the Sewer Revenue Fund created by this ordinance. The amount of such warrant, together with a penalty of ten per cent (1 ) thereof, plus interest at the rate of eight per cent (8 0) per annum upon the total amount of such cost and pen- alty, shall be assessed against the property upon which the said building or structure is situated, and shall become a lien thereon as herein provided. Such total amount when collected shall be paid into said Sewer Revenue Fund." Section 4. MATTER EXCLUDED FROM ALL SEWERS. Sewage, waste, or any matter having the following characteristics shall, under no conditions, be discharged into, be placed where they might find their way into, or be albwed to run, leak, or escape into any part of the Sewer System.