§ 114.012. Connection to system.

Sec. 12. It is hereby determined and declared that public sanitary sewers are essential to the health, safety and welfare of the people of the Municipalities and that all premises on which structures in which sanitary sewage originates or are situated shall connect to the system at the earliest reasonable date as a matter for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare of the Municipalities. Those premises within 200 feet of the available sewer system shall connect as follows:

A.

Those within the Assessment District shall connect to the system within 12 months of its availability as noticed by first class mail from the Authority.

B.

Structures or premises emitting sewage prior to sewer services becoming available and outside the Assessment District shall connect upon septic system failure or may connect at any time after the date of notice of such availability by the appropriate Municipality official or its agent, and having completed a sewer connection contract with the Municipality or its agent.

C.

Structures or premises within 200 feet which began emitting sewage after a public sewer line was constructed shall connect prior to emitting sewage.

D.

All new construction lying within 200 feet of the system must connect prior to occupancy.

E.

Connection deadline. As a matter of public health, all connections to the public sewer system required hereunder shall be completed no later than 360 days after the last to occur of the date of official notice by the Municipality to make said connections or the modification of a structure so as to become a structure in which sanitary sewage originates. Newly constructed structures required to connect shall be connected prior to occupancy thereof. Persons who fail to complete a required connection to the public sewer system within such 360-day period shall be liable for a civil penalty in an amount equal to the user fees and debt service fees that would have accrued and been payable had the connection been made as required, in addition to the penalties provided in this Ordinance. Existing structures as of July 1, 2000 with available public sewer, outside special assessment district, connect upon failure.

Said notification and enforcement of this section shall be in conformity with Act 288 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1972, as amended.