[Adopted as § 11.5 of the 2000 Code]
A.
In order to assure preservation of public health, comfort and safety,
the owner of each parcel of land adjacent to a water main on which
there exists a building usable for human habitation, or in a block
through which such a system is extended, shall connect all existing
interior potable water plumbing to such water main on or before 90
days from the date the Village gives written notice to the property
owner requiring connection. The Village shall give written notice
requiring connection within 14 days of completion of final construction.
If any person fails to connect within the ninety-day period specified
above, the Village may provide written notice of noncompliance, and
if the owner fails to bring the system into compliance within 10 days,
the Village of Hobart may issue a separate citation for each day of
noncompliance or may cause connection to be made, and the expense
thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the property. Notwithstanding
the requirements set forth above, a property owner shall not be required
to connect if the property is located along a major water transmission
main route and the Village does not provide local water distribution
mains for service to properties along the transmission main. Further,
the requirements to connect to public water may be delayed during
the frost season if the Village Board, in its sole discretion, decides
to delay the effective date of the notice to connect until after the
frost season has passed. Finally, the requirement to connect to public
water will be voluntary as long as a residence is more than 400 feet
from the property line where a water main is installed and running
past such residence.
B.
If the Village of Hobart causes a connection to be made as provided
above, the affected property owner may, within 30 days after the receipt
of written notice from the Village that work has been completed, file
a written notice with the Clerk-Treasurer of the Village requesting
a hardship exception based upon an inability to pay the assessment
in one lump sum, and further requesting that the assessment be levied
in two, three, four and five annual installments. If the Village Board
grants this hardship exception, interest shall accrue on the deferred
balance of the assessment in the amount not to exceed 15% per annum,
as determined by the Village Board and, in addition, the deferred
balance of the assessment shall be a special tax lien on the subject
property.
Any building or structure usable for human habitation which
is required to connect to the public sewerage system shall also be
required to connect to the public water system. This requirement shall
not apply if the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources orders
the extension of public sanitary sewage service to the parcel of property.
In lieu of causing connection to be made, the Village of Hobart,
at its option, may:
A.
Impose a penalty for the period that the violation continues, after
10 days' written notice to the owner failing to make a connection
to the water system, of $5 per day, payable quarterly for the period
in which failure to connect continues, and upon failure to make such
payment, said charge shall be assessed as a special tax lien against
the property, all pursuant to § 281.45, Wis. Stats.
B.
Commence court action to require connection to the Village of Hobart
water system, and impose such other penalty as this article provides.
This article ordains that the failure to connect to the water
system is contrary to the minimum health standards of the Village
of Hobart and fails to assure preservation of public health, comfort
and safety of the Village of Hobart residents.
