(a) The county government may, where it deems it necessary to the preservation of public health, order the owner of any lot or parcel of land within a district or extension thereof which abuts upon a street or right-of-way containing a sewer which is part of or served by the county sewage 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 sewer.
(b) If any owner shall fail to comply within 60 days with such order to connect with such sewer, the county government may forthwith institute action in any Justice of the Peace Court or may institute a summary action in the Superior Court to compel compliance with such order.
9 Del. C. 1953, § 4620; 56 Del. Laws, c. 103, § 13.
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