As used herein, the following terms shall have
the meanings stated:
OCCUPIED BUILDING
Each structure for continuous or periodic human occupancy
from which sanitary sewage is or may be discharged, and includes,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, dwellings, flats,
apartments, stores, shops, offices and business or industrial establishments.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership
or corporation.
PROPERTY ACCESSIBLE TO A PUBLIC SEWER
Property which adjoins, abuts on, or is adjacent to a public
sewer or a street or highway in which a public sewer is located, but
shall not include any property on which the principal occupied building
is located more than 150 feet from a public sewer.
PUBLIC SEWER
Facilities (including any part of, but not necessarily the
entirety of a system of, such facilities) operated by a sewer authority
for the collection of sanitary sewage within this municipality. Such
term includes lateral lines from a street main to the curb or right-of-way
line where such lateral lines are constructed by a sewer authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The normal, water-carried household and toilet wastes resulting
from human occupancy.
SEWER AUTHORITY
The Dallas Area Municipal Authority or any other agency operating
public sewers for or at the request of the governing body of the municipality.
Upon the completion of any public sewer, the
sewer authority charged with the operation thereof shall cause notice
of that fact to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation
in the municipality, such notice to state that owners of property
accessible to such sewer and upon which there is an occupied building
are compelled to make connection therewith pursuant to this Part 3.
A copy of such notice, together with a copy of this Part 3 and any
ordinance then in effect imposing sewer connection fees and sewer
rents shall be mailed to each person known to the sewer authority
to own property accessible to such sewer, but failure to mail such
copies or defect in the mailed copies or defect in the mailing thereof
shall not affect the validity of the notice.