If, after the expiration of said 365 days from date of official notification, the owner of any property affected by the provisions of this Part of this chapter has failed to install such toilet facilities and to make such sewer connection as required by §§ 161-2 and 161-3 hereof after receiving official notice requiring such action, as hereinbefore provided, the Township may cause such installation or connection to be made under the direction and supervision of the Division of Health or such other official or department of the Township as may hereafter be designated by the Township Council of the Township, or award one or more contracts for the making of such improvement by a contractor selected by the Township on an annual basis as a result of open competitive bidding.
Before proceeding to make any such installation or connection, the Division of Health or such other official or department of the Township as may hereafter be designated by the Township 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 terms 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 Township will proceed to make such installation or connection or cause the same to be done pursuant to the authority of § 161-6 hereof. The notice shall be served in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:63-56, 40:63-57 and 40:63-58.
When any such toilet installation or sewer connection shall be made by the Township, 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 Division of Health, or such other official or department of the Township as may hereafter be designated by the Township, with the Township Clerk. The Township shall examine the same and, if properly made, shall confirm it and file such statement with the Tax Collector of the Township, who shall record the installation or the sewer connection in the same book in which he records sidewalk 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 Township 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 installation or sewer connection 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.