§ 20-10 Connections required.

So often as any portion of said sewerage system shall be in actual operation and in a condition to collect, transmit and dispose of domestic or house sewage, the said commission shall notify the Commissioner of Health of the said City of Baltimore of that fact and impart to him the metes and bounds of said portion of said sewerage system in such state of preparedness, and it shall thereupon become his duty to require all owners of property within such metes and bounds, and shall become the duty of all such owners at their own cost and expense to forthwith connect their respective house drains at their respective building lines with said sewerage system, and to forthwith clean out and fill up their respective privy sinks, wells, cesspools or other sewerage or drainage receptacles, and to abandon the use of their existing arrangements of every sort for the disposal of sewage or drainage under the directions and control of said Commissioner of Health;

and full power is hereby conferred upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pass any ordinance or ordinances and provide for any remedial proceedings or processes or for any penalty or penalties that may be necessary, in its judgment, to enable said Commissioner of Health to properly and effectively comply with the obligations or any of the obligations hereinbefore imposed upon him by <cite data-path="20|§20-10">this section</cite>, and to keep the drainage connections between said respective building lines and said sewerage system free from obstruction and in good working order; and to do any and all things reasonably necessary to be done to compel said owners of said property to place and maintain the same in relations of full cooperation with said sewerage system.