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If such property owner who has once suffered sewer damage and has filed a claim with the city does not within forty-five (45) days execute, deliver and file with the city clerk a waiver of claims for any future damages resulting from back flow of sewage resulting from the clogging of the city sewer lines, from any cause, releasing the city if any future and further damages or expense or if said property owner does not within forty-five (45) days install a backwater valve in his building sewer line and if within forty-five (45) days does further damage occur, said property owner shall be responsible for damages. The city of Kettle Falls may, if its city superintendent deems that it is proper to do so, proceed as follows:

A. Notice shall be given to the property owner in writing that the city intends to enter upon said property and install a backwater valve.

B. Notice shall designate time and place for a hearing before the Kettle Falls city council.

C. If after the hearing, the City Council deems it fitting and proper, it shall order a licensed and bonded contractor or the city superintendent to proceed to excavate and install a backwater valve of suitable design and construction to prevent a reoccurrence of flooding damage to said property from sewage from city sewer lines.

D. If property owner, after such installation has been made by the city, fails, neglects or refuses to pay the cost of such construction and installation, including labor, material, parts and rental equipment, the city may file a lien against said property and foreclose said lien in Superior Court in the manner provided by statutes for the foreclosure of Mechanic’s or Materialman’s lien.