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Section 15-2.18. UNLAWFUL ACTS <br /> 1. Requirement to Connect to Public Water Utility. The owner(s) of all <br /> houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, <br /> recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and which is <br /> situated within the City and adjacent to any street, alley, or right-of-way in which <br /> there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public water utility of the <br /> City, shall be required at the owner(s) expense to install a suitable service <br /> connection to the public water utility in accordance with provisions of this Code, <br /> within ninety (90) days of the date said public water utility is operational, <br /> provided said public water utility is within 100 feet of the structure generating the <br /> wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property adjacent to the public <br /> water utility shall be required to immediately connect to the public water utility. <br /> If water utility connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official thirty <br /> (30) day notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make <br /> said connection. Notwithstanding the foregoing all properties that meet the <br /> requirement to connect to the public water utility must connect when the real <br /> estate is conveyed. <br /> 2. Failure to connect to public water utility. In the event an owner shall fail <br /> to connect to a public water utility in compliance with a notice given under this <br /> Chapter, the City must undertake to have said connection made and shall assess <br /> the cost thereof against the benefited property. Such assessment, when levied, <br /> shall bear interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified <br /> to the Auditor of the County of Crow Wing, Minnesota, and shall be collected and <br /> remitted to the City in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. <br /> The rights of the City shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement <br /> provisions of this Chapter. <br /> 3. Failure of an owner to voluntarily connect to a public water utility in <br /> compliance with a notice given under this Chapter shall be deemed a public <br /> nuisance and a misdemeanor and shall be punishable upon conviction thereof in <br /> accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota. The City may make the <br /> connection as a means of abating the nuisance and charge the cost back to the <br /> offending landowner with such cost to be collected and shall assess the cost <br /> thereof against the benefited property. Such assessment, when levied, shall bear <br /> interest at the rate determined by the City Council and shall be certified to the <br /> Auditor of the County of Crow Wing, Minnesota, and shall be collected and <br /> remitted to the City in the same manner as assessments for local improvements. <br /> The rights of the City shall be in addition to any remedial or enforcement <br /> provisions of this Chapter. <br /> 4. The City may also petition the District Court for a Court Order requiring <br /> the owner to connect to the public water utility and ordering the owner to connect <br /> within a reasonable amount of time to be established by the Court, or for an Order <br /> authorizing the City to make the connection. In the event the City petitions the <br /> Court for an Order directing the connection, either by the owner or the City, the <br />