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Sec. 118-152. Connection to municipal sewer.

(a) Required when available. Each owner of improved property lying within the area in which municipal sanitary sewer service is available is hereby directed and required to connect all toilet and wastewater facilities of such improved property with the municipal sanitary sewer system within 30 days as provided in section 118-151 and each owner of property that is improved who fails, refuses and neglects to connect such improved property to the municipal sewer service shall constitute a threat to public health.

(b) Determination of health hazard upon failure to connect. The sewer commission of the city is hereby designated as the city board of health with power to ascertain whether improved and occupied property which is not connected to the municipal sanitary sewer system, but can be served thereby, has adequate sanitary facilities so that the public health is not impaired because of the failure to connect the properties to the municipal sanitary sewer system.

(c) Notice; penalty. If the city sewer commission proceeding as the city board of health finds that any improved or occupied property is not connected with the municipal sewer system and does not have adequate sanitary disposal facilities, and that the public health is impaired or threatened, it shall send a written notice to the owner of such property, if it can be served by the system, to connect the property to the system within 30 days from the date of the notice. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to compel the building of a sewer line by one property owner over the property of another or for a greater distance from his property through or into any street or alley than 300 feet to a place where a connection can be made to the municipal sewer system.

(d) Discontinuance of water for failure to connect. In addition to subsection (c) hereinabove, and if the city sewer commission proceeding as a city board of health finds that an improved and occupied property not connected with the system does not have an adequate sanitary disposal facility and that the public health is impaired or threatened to be impaired, the city sewer commission shall have the authority, after giving notice as hereinabove provided, to terminate the water service of the owner of such improved and occupied property not connected with the municipal sewer system and causing the public health to be impaired or threatened to be impaired.

(Code 1973, § 33-47)

State law reference(s)--Authority to order connection to public sewer, A.C.A. § 14-235-202.

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