The town is empowered to establish, construct, enlarge and maintain such sanitary sewer lines and sewerage disposal systems as the council deems necessary or expedient, and when the health or development of an area demands, after a public hearing and ordinance duly enacted, require owners or occupiers of real estate within the corporate limits of the town, which fronts or abuts on any such sewer line, to make connection with and use the same; and shall have power to assess and collect reasonable fees and rates for making sewer connections and for sewer services, the reasonableness of which the council shall be the sole judges. Sewer service may be discontinued for default in payment for such service within the time prescribed by the council for payment thereof, for so long as such default continues.