No permit shall be issued allowing connections to be made with any public sewer, to service, or drain any lots or lands, the owners or former owners of which for any reason have not paid or have refused to pay the portion of the cost of such public sewer allocated by Council to such lots and lands or who have not paid all assessments levied against such lots or lands for sanitary or drainage purposes, or any lots or lands which have not been assessed for such sewer or drainage unless the owner thereof shall pay to the City such unpaid assessments, or if no assessments were levied, an amount per square foot of the lots or lands to be served by such connection determined by dividing the cost of the installation of the sewer or drainage facility by the total square footage service or benefited thereby. Money so paid shall be placed to the credit of an appropriate sewer fund.
(Ord. 2004-24. Passed 4-13-04.)