The Sanitary Board shall have the control over and supervision of the construction, acquisition, improvement, equipment, custody, operation and maintenance of a sewage collection system and sewage treatment plant, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations and ejector stations, the collection and treatment, purification and disposal, in a sanitary manner, of liquid and solid waste, night soil and industrial waste of the City; and in addition thereto, the Sanitary Board shall be vested with and shall exercise all of the rights and perform all of the duties conferred upon it by West Virginia Code Arts. 16-12 and 16-13.