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If any owner or occupant fails, neglects or refuses to connect his lands, buildings, or premises with the public sewer within the time specified in the notice referred to in GHMC 13.28.080 through 13.28.120, or fails, neglects or refuses to do the other work specified and ordered to be done as provided in GHMC 13.28.080 through 13.28.120, or in GHMC 13.28.140 within the time specified in the notice theretofore served upon such owner or occupant as provided in GHMC 13.28.080 through 13.28.120, or GHMC 13.28.140, the superintendent shall make such connection or do such work and the cost of the connection or of such work done by the superintendent shall be assessed against the property so connected or upon which such work is done and the amount of such cost shall become a lien upon the premises so connected or upon which the work is done, and the city attorney is authorized, empowered and directed to collect the amount of the cost of such connection on the doing of such work, either by foreclosure of the lien or by a suit against the owner or occupant of the premises, which suit shall be maintained in the name of the city as plaintiff, in any court of competent jurisdiction. (Ord. 209 § 9, 1974).