(A) Whenever, in the opinion of the Health Officer, any privy, vault, cesspool, or septic tank shall become offensive to the safety, health, comfort, convenience, or repose of the public, he or she shall give notice in the manner provided in division (E) below, requiring the owner or occupant of the premises to clean, remove, or alter the said privy, vault, cesspool, or septic tank in a manner satisfactory to the Health Officer within five days from the day of the first notice.
(B) Should the owner or occupant of the premises fail to clean, remove, or alter the said privy, vault, cesspool, or septic tank within the time specified, the Health Officer shall cause the work to be done and the expense of such work shall be levied and collected by special assessment upon such premises. Such special assessment shall, in each case, be made in pursuance of a resolution of the Village Council directing the same and specifying the amount thereof and the lot or premises upon which the same shall be assessed, or at the option of the Village Council said charges may be collected in a suit at law.
(C) If any privy, vault, or cesspool not accepted, having been ordered to be removed by the Health Officer, because of its being unsafe for the health, comfort, convenience, safety, and repose of the public, the said property owner must comply with the provision of § 50.40. In complying, said condemned disposal system, owner shall have six months’ time in which to comply and such work shall be completed in a six-month period and shall be done in accordance with division (B) above.
(D) All property owners who now have privies, vaults, or cesspools on their property and who are available to sewerage connection within the specifications of § 50.40(A), will have six months to remove said present system of disposal and connect to the sewer and, if said connection is not made in the six-month period, such work shall be done in accordance with division (B) above.
(E) Notice regarding removal or alteration of privies, vaults, cesspools, or septic tanks or any other act, the expense of which, if performed by the village, may be collected from the owner in an action of law, shall be served:
(1) By delivering the notice to the owner personally or by leaving the same at his or her residence, office, or place of business with some person of suitable age and discretion;
(2) By mailing the notice by registered mail with return receipt to such owner at his or her last known address; or
(3) If the owner is known, by posting the notice in some conspicuous place on the premises five days prior to the date set therein for compliance.
(F) No person shall interfere with, obstruct, mutilate, conceal, or tear down any official notice or placard posted by any village officer unless permission is given to remove said notice.
(Ord. 75-21, passed - -) Penalty, see § 50.99