550. Any local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws to provide for the periodical emptying of septic tanks, in its territory or in any part thereof; to provide for payment of the expenses by a compensation, which may vary for each class of users, exigible from the owner, tenant or occupant of each house, store or building using a septic tank; to order that in all cases the compensation is payable by the owner. Such compensation then has the same rank as a property tax on the immovable for which it is due.
1979, c. 36, s. 30; 1987, c. 42, s. 5; 1996, c. 2, s. 297; 1999, c. 40, s. 60.