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• ARTICLE 1. - IN GENERAL • DIVISION 1. - PAYMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF COSTS TO CONNECT OR REPAIR PRIVATE UTILITY L8NESp/ « Sec. 78-1.-Finding oYpublic health and safety hazard. (a) The city council finds that failure to connect tothe city water system as required b .2 of this Code' failure to connect to the city sewer and sewage disposal system as required by subsection 78-97(d) of this Code' and failure to maintain in good' operable condition private water and sanitary sewer utility lines, creates public health and safety hazards on private property which must be eliminated. (b) |naddition tothe provisions o �ndouboecti�n78-�7(d)' vvhichauthorize the city tomake connections tothe city water and sanitary sewer systems and to assess the costs therefore to the affected property, and the provisions of Sherburne County Zoning Ordinance [section] 17.5 and ' article || of this Code' which declares defective sewage oyoterno and plumbing a nuisance affecting the public's safety and health and authorizes the city to abate such nuisances and to assess the costs therefor tothe affected properties, the city council finds that it is necessary and in the public interest to provide a mechanism for costs incurred by private property owners to eliminate such public health and safety hazards on private property to be assessed against the property as a special assessment. (Ord. No. 12-06' § 1' 4-2-2012; Ord. No. 12-17' § 1' 12-10-2012; Ord. No. 15-07' § 1' 2-17-2015) � Sec. 78-2'-Petition authorized. Property owners who are required to connect to the city water and/or sanitary sewer system pursuant to and subsection 78-9, 7(d) ofthis Code, orwho have private water and/or sanitary sewer lines which have failed, and such failure has been determined by city land development staff to be a public health or safety hazard' may petition the city' on a form provided by the city, to pay the costs to connect (including any outstanding lateral/trunk assessments and applicable water and sewer connection charges) or repair the private utility lines and to aooeoo amounts paid aoaspecial charge under Minn. Stats. § 42S.101. The city may accept orreject ouch petitions in its sole discretion, and may impose such conditions and requirements to acceptance aoit deems appropriate. (Ord. No. 12-06' § 1' 4-2-2012; Ord. No. 12-17' § 1' 12-10-2012)