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AN ORDINANCE AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 456 OF THE CITY CODE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That section 456 of the City Code, as amended and re-enacted June 15,1911, be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows, Sec. 456. CONNECTTOUS. HOW PREMISSIONS FOR SECURED: 1. Applivation for permission to connect withh any main or lateral sewer must be in writing and must be made by the owner of the property which it is proposed to connect with the sewer system, or by his duly autiorized went, such application shall give the name of the owner of the property, the location of the property, the name of the person, firm or corporation who is to do the work, the nature of the liquid which is to flow through such sewer, specifying whether it is household waste, or other fluid, and showing the proposed location of the house sewer on the property by a plan or drawing of the property or otherwise. 2. Applications for sewer connections outside of the corporate limits shall be in writing; to the superintendent of Water & Sewer, and when approved by him the applicant may proceid to make such connection as is stated in his application. But in all cases the approval of the Council shall be ganted only or the following conditions that is to say, each person making connection with the sewer main outside of the corporate limits of the City of Charlottesville shall be required to pay for that privilege to said City an annual tax of not less than ten dollars or such other sum in excess thereof as the City Council may fix from time to time, the privilege of such connection to terminate upon thirty days notice from the city or from the party enjoying the privilege, provided that when such privilege is terminated such proportionate part of the sewer tax as may at the time of termination have accrued shall be paid by the party ceasing to enjoy the privilege. 3. If the annual sewer tax is not paid for thirty days after the same is due tip connection of the party so in default mal be cut off by the city in such way as it may determine, the right of ingress, to and from the property through which such connection runs being allowed said city as incident to the granting of and aprlication for sewer connection outside of the corporate limits. And any connection made by other persons with a connecting pipe will be treated as though such persons had been original applicants for sewer connection --that is to say, before making any such connection the person desiring the same must make applica- tion to the Council as hereinbefore stated, and no such connection will be recogni- zed by the City unless made by permission of the Council. If made without such permission the City shall have the right to disconnect. And all persons having, the right to connect with connection sewers shall be subject in all respects to the provisions of this ordinance so far as the same are appurte- nant thereto. 4. As to all persons outside the corporate limits who are now using the City main for the disposition of sewage by his own line of connection or by the use of a connection made with such main by some other person's main, or in any other way without any compensation to the city, it is enacted teat from the passage of this ordinance such persons shall be required to conform in all respects to the provisions of this is ordinance and be governed by the same in every detail, as though they were enjoying the privilege of sewer connection under this ordinance. In other words, the enjoyment of such persons of sewer connection by sufferance is discontinued from and after the passage of this ordinance. 5. The tax as herein provided for shall be collected in like manner as the other sewer taxes are now collected. This ordinance shall be in effect from and after its passage. Adopted by the Council June 12,1913. presented and approved June 13,1913. President Signature. Mayor Signature.