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• <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> charge fixed by ordinance of the City, plus interest at the rate <br /> of twelve percent per year upon the total amount of such cost, <br /> charge and penalty, shall be assessed against the property with <br /> buildings or structures in which the plumbing and sanitary <br /> facilities are located, and shall become a lien thereon superior <br /> to all other liens or encumbrances except those for general taxes <br /> and special assessments. Such total amount when collected shall <br /> be paid into the City Sewer Revenue Fund. <br /> Such liens may be foreclosed by the City in the manner provided <br /> by law for the enforcement of the same and for delinquent <br /> sewerage charges. As an additional and concurrent method of <br /> enforcing the lien herein provided the City may cut off the water <br /> service from the premises to which such sewage disposal service <br /> was furnished, and such water service shall remain cut off until <br /> all such charges, plus penalties and interest thereon, together <br /> with an additional sum of five dollars for turning the water on, <br /> shall have been paid. <br /> Any person who shall fail to comply with the orders of the Mayor <br /> or his duly authorized representative as provided in this <br /> section, shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter. <br /> is hereby amended to read as follows: <br /> Connection to available public sewer--Extension--Forced connection <br /> A. Within thirty days from the date a public sewer abuts the <br /> property line of premises on which any residential, <br /> industrial, commercial or public building is placed, the <br /> residences, buildings and structures located thereon in <br /> which plumbing facilities and/or sanitary sewers are <br /> installed shall be connected to the public sewer system by <br /> means of a side sewer of a kind and size as required by <br /> current City standards. <br /> B. All property owners within 150 feet of a public sanitary <br /> sewer and all property owners adjacent to a street or <br /> public right-of-way in which a public sanitary sewer system <br /> is installed and available who fail to connect their <br /> private sewers to the public sewer system after notice to <br /> do so from the Public Works Department shall pay to the <br /> City an amount equal to the sewer service charges <br /> established for other users of like kind under the City's <br /> rates and charges; provided that all rates and charges so <br /> paid shall be credited toward the sewer connection charges <br /> applicable to said property at such time as the property is <br /> connected. Payments of sewer service and/or construction <br /> charges on unconnected properties received prior to said <br /> notice shall also be retained by the City and credited to <br /> applicable sewer connection charges. <br /> C. The City Engineer may, on written request from the property <br /> owner, extend the time of the required .connection to the <br /> public sewer for a maximum period of five (5) years; <br /> provided, that the existing on-site sewage system shall be <br /> inspected by the Snohomish Health District at the property <br /> owner's expense and a written report shall be submitted to <br /> -2- <br />