For the better protection of the health and convenience of the inhabitants, all that portion of the city now or hereafter embraced within the district reached by the sewer system is hereby declared to be a sewer district. All persons owning real property adjoining the streets or alleys in which there are sewer lines or lateral, branch, main, or trunk sewers of the sewer system, and all persons owning, leasing, or using real property or buildings or fixtures thereon which can be served by sewers, shall cause to be connected all privies, cesspools, and open or unconnected drains with the sewer system, at the time and in the manner as hereinafter provided, and as the Council by resolution may require. All expenses of the connection shall be borne by the owner of the real property or building and the person leasing or using same. It is unlawful to fail to abate all the privies, cesspools, and open or unconnected drains at the time and in the manner herein required and in the manner required by the Council by resolution.
(Ord. 121, passed 12-4-1979) Penalty, see Article 1-8