Ordinance 252-73 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 1 The City Engineer may, on written request from the property owner, extend the time of the required connection to the public sewer; pro- 2 vided, that public health, safety and welfare is not thereby endangered and suitable and reasonable grounds are shown for such extension. 3 4 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, 5 to compel the owners or the occupant of any lot or parcel or real property, the property line of which is abutting a public sewer, to 6 cause to be connected to such public sewer a sufficient sewer or drain 7 pipe from all buildings and structures located thereon used for human occupancy or for use for any other purpose. Provided, however, that 8 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 9 than one such connection to any one standpipe; and no "Y" or standpipe which already has one such connection shall be considered as an 10 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 stand- 11 pipe. 12 If any such connection herein required shall not be made within thirty 13 days, or such extension of time as may be granted by the City Engineer, after written notice from the Mayor or his duly authorized representa- 14 tive to the occupant or owner of such building, structure, lot or parcel or real property, the Mayor of his duly authorized representative shall 15 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 16 warrant against the Sewer Fund in the amount of such cost shall be 17 issued by the City Treasurer under the direction of the Mayor, payable to the licensed contractor employed to make such connection. The amount 18 of such warrant, together with the amount of any connection charge fixed by ordinance of the city, plus interest at the rate of twelve per- 19 cent per year upon the total amount of such cost, charge and penalty, shall be assessed against the property with buildings or structures in 20 which the plumbing and sanitary facilities are located, and shall become 21 a lien thereon superior to all other liens or emcumbrances except those for general taxes and special assessments. Such total amount when 22 collected shall be paid into the City Sewer Revenue Fund. 23 Such liens may be foreclosed by the city in the manner provided by law for the enforcement of the same and for delinquent sewerage charges. 24 As an additional and concurrent method of enforcing the lien herein 25 provided the city may cut off the water service from the premises to which such sewage disposal service was furnished, and such water 26 service shall remain cut off until all such charges, plus penalties and interest thereon, together with an additional sum of five dollars for 27 turning the water on, shall have been paid. 28 Any person who shall fail to comply with the orders of the Mayor or his duly authorized representative as provided in this section, shall be 29 guilty of a violation of this chapter." 30 31 32