§ 16-5. Notice to make connections.

(a) Director to notify HCD Commissioner.

(1) Immediately after the Director of Public Works:

(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

(ii) shall impart to the Commissioner the metes and bounds of said portion of said sewerage system which is in such state of preparedness,

(2) the said Commissioner shall notify, in writing, all owners of property within such metes and bounds to:

(i) connect, at their own costs and expense, their respective house drains, at their respective building lines, with said sewerage system;

(ii) clean out and fill up their respective privy sinks, wells, cesspools, or other sewerage or drainage receptacles; and

(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.