Council may require the owner of any property abutting upon the street or alley, in which a public sewer belonging to the city has been laid or placed, to connect a sewer leading from his or her property or lot into such public sewer at the nearest practicable point of connection, provided such owner has erected or constructed a building or other improvement requiring sewage disposal on his or her property or lot, and provided such nearest point of connection shall be within 300 feet of the property line. If Council requires the owner to make such connection, it shall require at least ten days’ notice to be served upon such owner, ordering him or her to make the connection. If the owner of such lot or property thereupon fails or refuses to make such connection in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, after having been given such notice, Council may thereupon enter upon such lot and construct such sewer and may levy thereupon the actual cost thereof, against the lot or property upon which the same is built and collect such costs and fee from the owner of such lot or property in the same manner as municipal taxes are collected and as provided by law.
(1986 Code, § 921.04)