(a)(1) The Cherokee County Commission, through the county health department, shall compel connection of any new construction in resort areas to any available public sewerage system, whether publicly or privately owned.

(2) The county commission, through the county health department, shall compel the connection of existing privies, water closets, and septic tanks in resort areas which are not designed or operated in full compliance with all applicable state and county regulations with any available public sewerage system, whether publicly or privately owned. In case of failure of the property user to connect after reasonable notice from the county as provided in Section 45-10-170.43, the county health department may connect the privies, water closets, and septic tanks with the sewerage system and the expense of the same shall be assessed against the property and the cost thereof shall be a lien upon the property in favor of the county, superior to all other liens, to be collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced.

(b) When connections are made by the county under this section, the county health department shall prepare a statement in writing setting forth the name of the owner and a description of the property upon which the improvements have been made, together with the cost of the sanitary sewer connections, and the statement shall be signed by the presiding officer of the county commission in his or her official capacity and filed with the judge of probate in the county for record in the mortgage records of the county. The filing of the statement shall operate as notice of the lien from the date of its filing.