The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-25

No. 327.) AN ACT (S. 272 To authorize cities and towns in the
 State of Alabama to provide for
 the drainage thereof by sanitary
 and storm water sewers, ditches,
 surface drains. aqueducts and
 canals; to prescribe rules and reg
 ulations for the installation of
 plumbing; to enforce connection
 with and the use of such sewers
 or drains. and to regulate the
 same.
 Section N Be it enacted by the Leg isIature Of Alabama: That all cities and towns shall have power and eu- thority to make all needful provision Tor the drainage of such city or town: to construct and maintain sanitary and storm water sewers or sewer systems, either within or without the corpor- ate limits of the city or town; to con- struct and maintain ditches. surfaca drains. aqueducts and canals; to build and construct underground sewers through private property either with in or without the corporate limits of such city or town, paying to the owner such damages. if any, as will be there by done to such property; to acquire, whenever necessary, the requisite rights and easements by condemnation in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and laws of Alabama, for the eondem- nation of land for the public use; to compel the owners of real property to ditch and drain the same at the ex- pense of the property owner. and to punish any refusal or neglect of such owner to ditch or drain such property; to require public or private premises to be connected with the sewer sys- tems, when constructed, and to regu- late the manner of making such con- nections; to prescribe the rules and regulations under which plumbing shall be constructed. and the mate riais which may be used and the man ner of constructing such plumbing. and the Inspection thereof; to author ige the condemnation of defective plumbing, and to forbid the use of the same while out of repair or defective: and to forbid the use of sinks. cess pools, dry wells. and surface closets; to regulate water closets and the use thereof, and to compel the installation and the connection of the same with the sewerage system; to prescribe the manner in which drainage from private premises may be disposed of, and the location of such drains; to punish any person who shall fail to make connec- tton with the sewer system after he has been required to do so, and to pre- vent the occupation of any property after notice that such connections have been required until the same have been made.
 Sec. 2. That whenever in the ex- ercise of any power herein granted. notice is required to be given the Mayor and Aldermen or other govern ing body, who shall have the right to designate a person or persons to give such notice who shall be a bonded of- 6cer of the municipality and to make returns upon the same, and such re- turn shall be prima facie evidence of such notice Personal notice to non- residents shall not be necessary, and the Mayor and Aldermen or other gov ernsng body. shall have power to pro- vide and fix the character of the pub- lication of notice to non-residents which shall be given by publication once q week for three weeks, or by posting for the same time in three public places in said city or town where no newspaper is published there- in and the manner of making the same, which shall not be inconsistent with the generalslaws of the State of Alabama on the subject Whenever any notice to resident property own CT iss returned not found, the Mayor and Aldermen, or other governing body, shall have power to prescribe as in the case of the original notice; two returns of mot found" as to a resident property owner shall author. ize the Mayor and Aldermen. or other governing body, to proceed to give mo- tice to such resident property owner by publication as herein required to be given to non-residents.
 Approved March l2, 1907.
 ofncial:
 Frank N Julian.
 Secretary of State.