§ 50-44. Connection with sewer system required; assessment of costs of work.  


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  • Such county authority is empowered to require and compel land owners, whenever proper for the sanitation of the county, to make connections with said sewers, sewerage systems, and drains; and, upon failure of any owner of land to comply with any order issued by the board of commissioners or other county authority for any of the purposes of this section for a period of ten days after receiving a copy of such order, such board of commissioners or other county authority is authorized to have the necessary work done at the expense of such owner and, after completion of such work, to assess the cost of such work against the property where the connection is required to be made, and the owner thereof; and, if such assessment is not paid within ten days after the making of such assessment, such county authority shall cause execution to be issued for such cost against said land and the owner thereof, which execution shall be levied by the Sheriff of Fulton County upon said land or any property of such owner within the county; and property so levied on shall be advertised and sold by virtue of such execution under the same rules and regulations which govern other sheriff's sales in said county.

(1949 Ga. Laws (Act No. 334), page 1423, § 12)