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SECTION 4 <br /> The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, <br /> employment, recreation or other purposes from which wastewater is discharged, and <br /> which is situated within the City and adjacent to any street, alley, or right-of-way in <br /> which there is now located, or may in the future be located, a public sanitary sewer of the <br /> City, shall be required at the owner(s) expense to install a suitable service connection to <br /> the public sewer in accordance with provisions of this Code, within ninety(90) days of <br /> the date said public sewer is operational, provided said public sewer is within 100 feet of <br /> the structure generating the wastewater. All future buildings constructed on property <br /> adjacent to the public sewer shall be required to immediately connect to the public sewer. <br /> If sewer connections are not made pursuant to this section, an official thirty(30) day <br /> notice shall be served instructing the affected property owner to make said connection. <br /> SECTION 5 <br /> In the event an owner shall fail to connect to a public sewer in compliance with a <br /> notice given under Article III, Section 4 of the Ordinance, the City must undertake to <br /> have said connection made and shall assess the cost thereof against the benefited <br /> property. Such assessment, when levied, shall bear interest at the rate determined by the <br /> City Council and shall be certified to the Auditor of the County of Crow Wing, <br /> Minnesota, and shall be collected and remitted to the City in the same manner as <br /> assessments for local improvements. The rights of the City shall be in addition to any <br /> remedial or enforcement provisions of this ordinance. <br /> ARTICLE IV <br /> Responsibilities and Ownership <br /> SECTION 1 <br /> The City shall maintain ownership of the sewer main and keep it in good working <br /> order. <br /> SECTION 2 <br /> Property owners shall bear responsibility for their sewer system service <br /> connection beginning at the saddle of the sewer main facing their property line and <br /> ending with their residential pipes. The cost of installation, maintenance, repair, <br /> replacement or abandonment is a part of that responsibility. <br /> sewerord2001.doc 8 <br />