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n' • • ORDINANCE NO. moil_ Rs- AN sAN ORDINANCE establishing rules, regulations and rates for sewer connections and amending Section 4 of Ordinance No. 252-73 (EMC 14.08.250) . THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: Section 4 of Ordinance No. 252-73 (EMC 14.08.250) which reads as follows: Connection to available public sewer--Extension--Forced connection Within thirty days from the date a public sewer is made available by any means whatsoever, as defined in Section 2.20.030, to serve the premises of a particular section, plat, addition or com- munity, the residences, buildings and structures located thereon in which plumbing and/or sanitary facilities are installed shall be connected to the public sewer system by means of a side sewer of a kind and size as required by this chapter. The City Engineer may, on written request from the property owner, extend the time of the required connection to the public sewer; provided, that public health, safety and welfare is not thereby endangered and suitable and reasonable grounds are shown for such extension. The Mayor and the City Engineer or such other person as the Mayor 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 abutting 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. Provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporations to make or attempt to make more than one connection to one "Y" or to make more than one such con- nection to any one standpipe; and no "Y" or standpipe which already has one such connection shall be considered as an accessible 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. If any such connection herein required shall not be made within thirty days, or such extension of time as may be granted by the City Engineer, after written notice from the Mayor or his duly authorized representative to the occupant or owner of such building, structure, lot or parcel or real property, the Mayor or his duly authorized representative shall cause such connection to be made by a licensed contractor and file a statement of the cost thereof with the City Clerk and thereupon a warrant against the Sewer Fund in the amount of such cost shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the direction of the Mayor, payable to the licensed contractor employed to make such connection. The amount of such warrant, together with the amount of any connection