(a) The use of the Municipal sewage system of the City is hereby determined and declared to be essential for the protection and preservation of the public health, comfort, safety, economy and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City and of the area served thereby.
(b) The owner, tenant or occupant of premises which abut on a street, alley or other public way containing a sewer main, or which, in the judgment of the Sanitary Board, is located within such a distance thereof that sewer service is reasonably available thereto and upon which premises a building or other inhabitable structure has been or shall be erected for residential, commercial or industrial use, shall be required to connect the building or structure to the sewage system or to such part of the system as may from time to time be extended or become reasonably available, and shall thereafter refrain from using or cease to use any other method in place of the sewer services which are now, or may hereafter become available; and shall thereafter pay all the charges, rates or fees as herein, or may hereafter be provided for. All such connections shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations which shall be adopted from time to time by the Sanitary Board or by Council and the rules and regulations may provide for reasonable charges, fees or deposits required for making such connections.
(1978 Code Sec. 23-2.)