Every owner of property upon which there is now or shall hereafter be erected or placed a house, building or other structure used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the Borough and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way, or abutting on any other property so abutting and having access to such street, alley or right-of-way, in which there is now or shall hereafter be installed any portion of the public sewer, is hereby required at his own cost and expense to:
A. 
Install approved toilet facilities therein; and
B. 
Connect such facilities and all other parts of the sewerage system in such house, building or structure in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the requirements of the Board of Health. Connections of such facilities to any other means of sewage disposal is hereby prohibited.
The work required in § 293-2 hereof shall be completed not later than the expiration of the one-year period stated in the official notice requiring such action. Upon such completion, all use of septic tanks, cesspools or similar individual sewage disposal systems theretofore used shall be discontinued.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 409, Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual.
The official notice referred to in § 293-3 shall consist of notice published twice in a newspaper qualified to publish legal notices of the Borough. The one-year period shall commence on the first day of the month next following the second publication of said notice. In addition, the Borough may mail to every owner of property referred to in § 293-2 a copy of such notice, or of the substance thereof, by ordinary mail addressed to the person listed on the tax assessment rolls of the Borough as the owner. Failure to mail or to receive such notice shall not impair or invalidate the legal effect of the published notice hereinbefore provided for.
If, after the expiration of the one-year period set forth in § 293-4, the owner shall have failed to install such toilet facilities and to make such sewer connection as required by §§ 293-2 and 293-3, the Borough may cause such installation or connection to be made and assess the cost thereof as a first and paramount lien against the property, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:63-52 et seq.[1]
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Editor's Note: N.J.S.A. 40:63-52 was repealed by P.L. 1991, c. 53, § 1. See now N.J.S.A. 40A:26A-1 et seq.