(A) The use of the sewer system of the city is 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, easement or other public way containing a sewer service, or which, in the judgement of the Council of the city, 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, or where persons are employed or congregate or are intended to be employed or congregate, shall be required to connect the building or structure to the sewer system or to such part of the sewer 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 Council of the city, and such rules and regulations may provide for reasonable charges, fees or deposits required for making such connections.
(C) For provisions as to authority of city to compel owners and the like, of property abutting on or near the street in which public sewer is laid and upon which any building and the like is erected, to connect such property to the sewer; see W. Va. Code § 16-13A-9.
(Ord. 25, passed 3-13-2018)