(A) Whenever the City Manager shall deem it necessary to protect the public health or to eliminate a nuisance, he or she may cause notice to be served on the owner of any premises fronting or abutting upon any street or alley in which a public sewer is built and where water pipes are laid adjacent to the premises, ordering him or her to connect with the sanitary sewer system or install toilet facilities.
(B) The owner shall connect with the sanitary sewer or install toilet facilities as ordered within 60 days after service of the notice.
(C) The City Manager or his or her authorized agents shall also have the right to enter upon the premises and cause the required connection to be made or toilet facilities to be installed and to collect the cost therefor from the owner in an action at law.
(D) After the construction of a sewer connection and toilet facilities as required by this subchapter, no person shall use or maintain for sewage disposal a privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank or sinkhole upon any lot or premises upon which sewer connections were made.
(E) Where a sewer becomes available within 100 feet of any premises, connection must be made to the sewer and any septic tank closed the first time the septic tank has to be pumped out, drained or becomes unsanitary and offensive, or in any event not later than two years after the sewer becomes available.
(1990 Code, § 30-137) (Ord. 62-672, passed 10-1-1962)