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2024 Delaware Code
Title 9 - Counties
Chapter 23. SANITARY SEWER DISTRICTS
§ 2321. Order to connect to sanitary sewer; enforcement.

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9 DE Code § 2321 (2024)
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§ 2321. Order to connect to sanitary sewer; enforcement.

(a) The County Council may, where it deems it necessary to the preservation of public health, order the owner of any lot or parcel of land within a sanitary district which abuts upon a street or other public way containing a sanitary sewer, which is part of or which is served or may be served by the county sewerage system and upon which lot or parcel of land a building shall have been constructed for residential, commercial or industrial use, to connect such building with such sanitary sewer.

(b) If any owner shall fail to comply within 60 days with such order to connect with a sanitary sewer, the County Council shall forthwith institute action in a Justice of the Peace Court in New Castle County or in the Court of Chancery of the State to compel compliance with such order.

9 Del. C. 1953, § 2321;  49 Del. Laws, c. 54;  55 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 15;  71 Del. Laws, c. 401, § 15;  77 Del. Laws, c. 303, § 2; 
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