If, after the expiration of said 180 days from the date of official notification, the owner of any property affected by the provisions of this Part 1 has failed to install such toilet facilities and to make such sewer connection as required by Article II hereof after receiving official notice requiring such action, as hereinbefore provided, the Borough may cause such installation or connection to be made under the direction and supervision of the Board of Health, or such other official or department of the Borough as may hereafter be designated by the Mayor and Council of the Borough, or award one or more contracts for the making of such improvements by a contractor selected by the Borough on an annual basis as a result of open competitive bidding.
Before proceeding to make any such installation or connection, the Board of Health, or such other official or department of the Borough as may hereafter be designated by the Borough, shall cause notice of such contemplated installation or connection to be given to the owner of any properties affected thereby. The notice shall contain a description of the property affected, sufficiently definite in term to identify it, as well as a description of the required installation or connection and notice that, unless the installation or connection shall be completed within 30 days after the service thereof, the Borough will proceed to make such installation or connection or cause the same to be done, pursuant to the authority of § 56-7 hereof. The notice shall be served in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:63-56, 40:63-57 and 40:63-58.[1]
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Editor's Note: N.J.S.A. 40:63-56 to 40:63-58 were repealed by P.L. 1991, c. 53, § 1.
When any such toilet installation or sewer connection shall be made by the Borough, a true and accurate account of the cost and expense shall be kept and apportioned to the property or the properties thereby connected with the sewers, and a true statement of such costs under oath shall be forthwith filed by the Board of Health, or such other official or department of the Borough as may hereafter be designated by the Borough, with the Borough Clerk. The Borough shall examine the same, and if properly made, shall confirm it and file such statement with the Tax Collector of the Borough, who shall record the installation of the sewer connection in the same book in which he records sidewalks or other assessments.
Every such installation or sewer connection charge shall bear interest and penalties from the same time and at the same rate as assessments for local improvements in the Borough and from the time of confirmation shall be a first and paramount lien against the respective property or properties so connected with the sewer to the same extent as assessments for local improvements and shall be collected and enforced in the same manner.
No such charge for toilet installations or sewer connections shall be invalid by reason of any error or omission in stating the name of the owner or owners of properties affected by such toilet installations or sewer connections, nor for any other informality, where such property or real estate has actually been improved by such toilet installation or sewer connection.