§ 86-187. Connections.

(a)

Required; notice. To ensure preservation of public health, comfort and safety, the owner of any houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other habitations, situated within the village and adjacent to a public sewer or in a block through which a public sewer extends, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within nine months after the public sewer first becomes operational, or if an immediate health hazard exists within 30 days upon receipt of notice from the building inspector.

(b)

Failure to comply with notice; village to connect; payment; lien; installment payment; standby charges. If a person fails to comply with the notice to connect within the given period of time the utility may, at its option:

(1)

Cause such connection to be made and bill the property owner for such costs. If such costs are not paid within 30 days, such costs shall be assessed as a special tax lien against the property, unless the owner, within 30 days after completion of the work, files a written option with the village clerk pursuant to section 42-5 of this Code, stating that he cannot pay such amount in one sum and asking that it be levied in an amount not to exceed five, equal annual installments. The amount shall be so collected with interest at the rate the village pays on the last borrowing it made prior to the receipt of the option, plus one percent, per annum, from the completion of the work until full payment, together with interest, is made on the unpaid balance to be a special tax lien; or

(2)

Impose a standby charge for the period that such failure continues, after ten days' written notice to any owner failing to make a connection to the wastewater works or an amount equal to 150 percent of the residential equivalency charge, payable monthly for the period in which the failure to connect continues, and, upon failure to make such payment, the charge shall be levied as a tax against the lot or parcel to which sewer service was furnished.

(Code 1966, §§ 10.61, 23.05(2); Ord. No. 952, § II, 10-17-18)

State law reference

Authority regarding standby charges generally, W.S.A., § 66.069(1)(a).