§ 7-106. Repair of plumbing which causes water waste.

The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized and empowered to pass ordinances requiring that faulty or defective plumbing shall be repaired or corrected by the City authorities after ten days' notice has been given the owner or the agent of said premises to repair or correct the same, where the existence of such faulty or defective plumbing causes the wastage or leaking of water upon any premises to which water is furnished by the respective water department of the water and sewer bureau of the City of Savannah. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are authorized to make reasonable charges therefor against the owners of the property and to enforce collection of such charges where the same remains due and unpaid for a period of thirty days by execution to be issued by the city treasurer of said City against the owner of said premises upon which is situated such faulty or defective plumbing, and against such other person or persons as may be liable therefor. The said execution shall be a lien upon the said property or premises and, when recorded in the general execution docket of Chatham County, Georgia, shall be a lien on all of the property of the defendant or defendants in execution from the date of such record. The said execution shall be levied and the property sold in the manner now provided for the levying and collection of executions issued by said City of Savannah for water rents, and the proceedings and provisions for the filing of an affidavit of illegality by the defendant or defendants in execution, as well as the proceedings for the filing of a claim to the property levied upon by a third person, shall, in all respects, be similar to the proceedings and provisions of the law applicable to the levying of executions for water rents by the said Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah.

(1924 Ga. Laws, page 683, § 3)