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Section 1. It is hereby found and declared to be necessary
for the public welfare, health and safety of the City of Port Townsend
and its inhabitants that the owner of each lot or parcel of real
property within the corporate limits of the City not already connected
to the City's sanitary sewage system, the property line of which lot
or parcel of real property is 160 feet or less from a public sewer,
and upon which lot or parcel of property there is now situated any
building or structure for human occupation or use, shall install
suitable toilet facilities therein and shall connect such facilities,
to0ether with all other facilities therein the use of which results in
the existence of sewage, with the City's sanitary sewage system at his
own expense within ninety days after the adoption of a resolution of
the City Council signifying that the sewage system is ready to receive
sewage. where such building or structure has not been completed within
ninety days after the adoption of such resolution, such connection shall
be made on or before the completion of the construction of such building
or structure and before any use or occupation thereof.
If any such connection shall not be made within the time
herein provided, the water and sewer superintendent or such other
employee of the City as the Council may hereafter designate is hereby
authorized and directed to cause such connection to be made and to file
a statement of the cost thereof with the City Clerk, and thereupon a
warrant shall be issued under the direction of the City Council by the
City Treasurer and drawn on the Olympic Gravity water Fund of the City.
Such amount, together with the penalty of J p j of such cost plus
interest at the rate of 8Y per annum upon the total amount of such costs
and penalties shall be assessed against the property upon which said
building or structure is located and shall become a lien thereon as
herein provided. Such total amount, when collected, shall be paid into
the Olympic Gravity water Fund.
Where a public sewer line is more than 160 feet from the
property line of any lot or parcel of real property within the corporate
limits of the City, the owner thereof may install a side sewer at his