48-2013. Compulsory connection; financial
assistance
A. The board of directors of a sanitary district may declare further maintenance or
use of a cesspool, septic tank or other local means of sewage disposal within the
district a public nuisance and abate them.
B. The board may require any building within the district inhabited or used by
human beings to be connected with the sewerage system of the district.
C. Before the time any fee, levied under section 48-2027, or assessment, levied
under section 48-2057, is due, the board shall receive and consider applications from
individual lot or parcel owners for financial assistance in paying connection fees,
hookup fees and capacity charges. The application shall be in a form approved by the
board and the applicant shall provide reasonable evidence that the applicant lacks the
financial capability to pay the connection fees, hookup fees and capacity charges. The
board shall appropriate monies from any source to provide assistance for any person by
having the sanitary district pay the individual fees and have the applicant provide an
instrument, secured by an encumbrance on the applicant's property, which provides for
repayment to the sanitary district of the monies paid by the district. This subsection
applies only to applicants who own fewer than three parcels or lots within the district.
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