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CM Page 22 VMW of the proposed extensions, betterments and improvements to the Sewer System shall, upon written request of the Sewer Committee, immediately connect the toilet and waste water facilities of such property with the Sewer System. The required notice by the Sewer Committee shall be given at least thirty (30) days prior to the final date for connection, and if any property owner shall fail to make such connection after having been so requested in writing, the City and the Sewer Committee hereby covenant and agree to institute appropriate pro- ceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel such connection. Furthermore, any property owner who fails or refuses to connect his improved property with the Sewer System after having been so requested by the Sewer Committee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than $2.00 and not more than $10.00, and each day's failure or refusal after the expiration of the time fixed in the notice to make the con- nection shall be a separate offense; provided, however, that the provisions hereof pertaining to a misdemeanor shall be effective only in the event that the City Health Officer, or other duly designated individual or board, has found and declared that such failure on the part of any particular property owner con- stitutes a hazard to the public health and safety of the City and its inhabitants. Section 21. (a) That the City covenants and agrees that the holders and registered owners of the Sewer Revenue Bonds shall have the protection of the provisions of Section 13 of Act No. 132 of the Acts of Arkansas of 1933, as amended (Ark. Stats. 19-4113) , and that the City will diligently proceed to enforce the lien of unpaid sewer charges against the premises served by the System and to collect the amount due together with the penalty and expenses authorized by said Act No. 132. And, if the City shall fail to proceed within thirty (30) days after written request shall have been filed by the Trustee, the Trustee may, and upon the written request of the holders and registered owners of not less than ten