(A) Connection of fixtures. When any water main or sanitary sewer main is declared ready for operation by the town and reasonable notice given, all abutting property owners shall, within six months, connect all fixtures with the water or sewer main, or both the water and sewer mains where both mains are available.
(B) Abandonment of privies, cesspools and similar receptacles. Upon notification that the sewerage system is operational, all property owners shall, within six months, at their own expenses, abandon, clean out, disinfect, and permanently fill up their respective privy vaults, cesspools, and other drainage or sewage receptacles, with clean, fresh, earth, provided that clean ashes or some other approved material may be used with the permission of the town.
(C) Action upon noncompliance. Should any owner of any property refuse, neglect, or fail to comply with any of the terms and requirements of the notice within the time therein stated, then upon the expiration of the time stated, the town, its servants, agents, and employees are hereby empowered and directed to enter upon the premises and to perform all the work required of the owner of the property and to supply all the material needed therefor at the expense of the owner, and upon the completion of the work, the cost thereof, including the cost of the materials and all expenses incurred, may be recovered by the town from the owner by suit or otherwise, if necessary, but in the discretion of the town, no owner or other person in default under the provisions of this article shall be permitted any use of the sewers or water or any part thereof until security, adequate in the judgment of the town, shall be given for the full payment and satisfaction of all costs and expenses incurred in any manner by it, for the benefit of the owner or other person, under the provisions of this article. In addition thereto, the owner who shall refuse, neglect, or fail to comply with any of the terms and requirements of the notice shall be considered guilty of a municipal infraction, for each day until the terms and requirements of the notice are fully complied with, subject to a penalty as provided in § 86(B) of the Charter.
(Prior Code, § 164-10) (Ord. 4-76, passed 7-6-1976; Ord. 6-95, passed 11-6-1995)