[Adopted 11-22-1960 by Ord. No. 67 (Ch. 392, Art. II, of the 1990 Code)]
All buildings of any type or nature which by
their use and occupancy shall for reasons of health and sanitation
require sewerage facilities, now located or hereafter constructed
upon property fronting or abutting on any street, highway or lane
where sewers of the City of Vineland and of the Landis Sewerage Authority
have been or may be constructed, in the City of Vineland, shall be
required to be connected with the sewer mains.
Said sewer connections shall be made in the
manner required by and under the general supervision of the Engineer
or other official in charge of such sewerage system, in accordance
with the rules and regulations of the Water-Sewer Utility of the City
of Vineland and/or the Landis Sewerage Authority.
If after the passage of this article the owners
of any properties affected hereby shall neglect, after notice given
as hereinafter provided, to make any such sewer connection, the governing
body may cause such connection to be made under the direction and
supervision of the proper officers of the City and/or the Landis Sewerage
Authority.
Before proceeding to make such connection, notice
of such contemplated connection shall be given to the owner of any
properties affected thereby. Said notice shall contain a description
of the property affected, sufficiently definite in terms to identify
it, as well as a description of the required connection and notice
that, unless the connection shall be completed within 30 days after
the service thereof, the governing body of the City will proceed to
make such connection or cause the same to be done pursuant to the
authority of the statute in such case made and provided.
Such notice shall be served in the manner provided
by Chapter 63 of Title 40 of the New Jersey Statutes Annotated.
When any such sewer connection shall be made
by and under the direction of the governing body and/or the Landis
Sewerage Authority, a true and accurate account of the cost and expense
shall be kept and apportioned to the property or properties thereby
connected with the sewer, and a true statement of such costs shall
be filed with the Clerk of the City, who shall make a record thereof
in the same book and manner as other assessments. After such sewer
connection, it shall bear interest and penalties from the same time
and at the same rate as assessments for local improvements in the
municipality are made, 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. Every officer charged with the enforcement and collection
of assessments for local improvements is hereby charged with the same
duties in regard to the collection and enforcement of all charges
for sewer connections made by virtue of the provisions of this article.
The governing body may provide for the payment of the same in installments
in the same manner as assessments for local improvements are payable.
