(A) Whenever any sewer constituting a branch or extension of the township’s sewer system has been completed and is ready for public use, it shall be the duty of the owners of each property abutting on the highway, road, street or walk along which such sewer has been laid to cause the buildings erected on their premises requiring sewage drainage and located within 150 feet of the highway, road, street or walk along which such sewer has been laid to be connected to the sewer at their own expense and subject to the payment of the annual sewer rental for the use of the same, as well as to pay any tapping fee or construction charges imposed in connection therewith, and upon the failure of any such owner to comply with the requirements of this section, the township or Authority will cause such connections to be made at the expense of such owner.
(B) It shall further be the duty of the owners of such property to dismantle any existing on-lot sewage system at the time that connections are made to the public sewer system.
(C) Upon the failure of any owner of premises situated along the line of a township sewer, who has been duly notified to cause any buildings erected on such premises to be connected with such sewer, to comply with the requirements of such notice or with the provisions of this section, the township or Authority shall then cause the necessary connections to be made and, upon completion of the work for the same, shall render a bill covering the cost of said work to the owner of such premises. All such bills shall contain the notice that if said bills are not paid within 30 days after the date thereof, the same will be collected in the manner provided by law. Upon the expiration of 30 days after said bills have been rendered, either the Township Solicitor or a solicitor appointed by the Authority shall thereupon take the necessary action to effect the collection of such unpaid bills in the manner provided by law.
(Ord. 109, passed 1-12-1999) Penalty, see § 51.99