A. Within thirty days from the date a public sewer abuts the property line of premises on which any residential, industrial, commercial or public building is placed, the residence, buildings and structures located thereon in which plumbing facilities and/or sanitary sewers are installed shall be connected to the public sewer system by means of a side sewer of a kind and size as required by current City standards.

B. All property owners within one hundred fifty feet of a public sanitary sewer and all property owners adjacent to a street or public right-of-way in which a public sanitary sewer system is installed and available who fail to connect their private sewers to the public sewer system after notice to do so from the public works department shall pay to the city an amount equal to the sewer service charges established for other users of like kind under the city’s rates and charges; provided, that all rates and charges so paid shall be credited toward the sewer connection charges applicable to said property at such time as the property is connected. Payments of sewer service and/or construction charges on unconnected properties received prior to said notice shall also be retained by the city and credited to applicable sewer connection charges.

C. The city engineer may, on written request from the property owner, extend the time of the required connection to the public sewer for a maximum period of ten years; provided, that the existing on-site sewage system shall be acceptable to the Snohomish health district and suitable and reasonable grounds are shown for such extension; provided further, that in no event shall such time extension constitute a waiver of the sewer availability charges established under section B of this section. In the event that the Snohomish health district determines that the on-site sewage system is no longer acceptable within said ten-year extension, the property shall be immediately connected. This time extension shall apply to single-family residential property only; all commercial/industrial and special property use buildings shall be connected.

D. The mayor and city engineer or such other person as the mayor shall appoint are hereby empowered, and it is hereby made their duty, to compel the owners or the occupant of any lot or parcel of real property, the property line of which is abutting a public sewer, to cause to be connected to such public sewer a sufficient sewer or drain pipe from all buildings and structures located thereon used for human occupancy or for use for any other purpose; provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons or corporations to make or attempt to make more than one connection to one “Y” or to make more than one such connection to any one standpipe; and no “Y” or standpipe which already has one such connection shall be considered as an accessible point in such sewer as the term is herein used; and provided, further, that no connection shall be made through the top of any standpipe.

E. If any such connection herein required shall not be made within thirty days, or such extension of time as may be granted by the city engineer, after written notice from the mayor or the mayor’s duly authorized representative to the occupant or owner of such building, structure, lot or parcel or real property, the mayor or the mayor’s duly authorized representative shall cause such connection to be made by a licensed contractor and file a statement of the cost thereof with the city clerk and thereupon a warrant against the sewer fund in the amount of such cost shall be issued by the city treasurer under the direction of the mayor, payable to the licensed contractor employed to make such connection. The amount of such warrant, together with the amount of any connection charge fixed by ordinance of the city, plus interest at the rate of twelve percent per year upon the total amount of such cost, charge and penalty, shall be assessed against the property with buildings or structures in which the plumbing and sanitary facilities are located, and shall become a lien thereon superior to all other liens or encumbrances except those for general taxes and special assessments. Such total amount when collected shall be paid into the city sewer revenue fund.

F. Such liens may be foreclosed by the city in the manner provided by law for the enforcement of the same and for delinquent sewerage charges. As an additional and concurrent method of enforcing the lien herein provided the city may cut off the water service to the premises to which such sewage disposal service was furnished, and such water service shall remain cut off until all such charges, plus penalties and interest thereon, together with the current applicable charge for turning the water on, shall have been paid.

G. Any person who shall fail to comply with the orders of the mayor or the mayor’s duly authorized representative as provided in this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not to exceed one thousand dollars. (Ord. 2399-99 § 1, 1999.)