The owner of any houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there shall be located a public sanitary sewer of the city is required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within ninety days after written notice from the council to the property owner to make connection thereto, provided that the public sewer is located within three hundred feet of the property line. (Prior code § 4-1-1)