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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 16-5 Notice to make connections.">
  <section prefix="§" num="16-5" heading="Notice to make connections.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Director to notify HCD Commissioner.">
      <para num="(1)">Immediately after the Director of Public Works:<para num="(i)">shall notify the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development that any portion of the sewerage system provided for by §§ 20-8 through 20-10 of the Code of Public Local Laws is in actual operation and in a condition to collect, transmit, and dispose of domestic or house sewerage; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">shall impart to the Commissioner the metes and bounds of said portion of said sewerage system which is in such state of preparedness,</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">the said Commissioner shall notify, in writing, all owners of property within such metes and bounds to:<para num="(i)">connect, at their own costs and expense, their respective house drains, at their respective building lines, with said sewerage system;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">clean out and fill up their respective privy sinks, wells, cesspools, or other sewerage or drainage receptacles; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">abandon the use of their existing arrangements of every sort for the disposal of sewerage or drainage,
within 15 days after the receipts of such notice.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 42, §41</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 33, §17</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 25, §17</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 25, §16(1st cl.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-058</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 59-164</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-146</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 84-129</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 91-775</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
