If any owner of any lot or parcel of land within the county shall fail and refuse
to connect with and use the facilities of the water and sewer system of the county
after notification by the department, as provided herein, then the department shall
be authorized to make such connections, entering on or upon any such lot or parcel
of land for the purpose of making such connections. The service availability charge
of the county shall apply beginning twenty (20) days after notification by the department
to connect. The county shall thereupon be entitled to recover the cost of making such
connection, together with accrued service availability charges, impact fees, interest
and attorneys fees, by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.
In addition, and as an alternative means of collecting such costs or making such connections,
the county shall have a lien on such lot or parcel of land for such cost, which lien
shall be of equal dignity with the lien of state and county and municipal taxes. Such
lien may be foreclosed by the county in the same manner provided by the laws of Florida
for the foreclosure of mortgages upon real estate.
(Ord. No. 91-9, 3-12-91; Ord. No. 99-16, § 1, 6-22-99; Ord. No. 2009-012, pt. I, §§
1, 2, 8-18-09)
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