Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, private
sewerage plan system or other facility intended or used for the disposal
of sewerage, except as specified in this chapter.
The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human
occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within
the Borough and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which
there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary
sewer of the Borough, are hereby required at their expense to install
suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities
and all other soil, waste and other drainage pipe facilities directly
with the property public sewer in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter within 180 days after the date of the official notice
to do so, provided that the appropriate application for such connection
shall have been made within 120 days and further provided that the
public sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.
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 chapter has failed to make such sewer connection as required
by this article after receiving official notice requiring such action
hereinbefore provided, the Borough may levy a fine on the property
owner of not more than $100 per day per equivalent connections.
Every such 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 time to 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 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 sewer connections nor for any other
informality, where such property or real estate has actually been
improved by such sewer connection.