No person shall erect or maintain any dwelling, house or business building within the city where the dwelling or building abuts on any sidewalk or street without providing proper guttering and eave spouts to receive the waste waters that drip on the streets and sidewalks of the city. All eave spouts erected on any dwelling, house or business building within the city shall be constructed to drain in the alleys even for such eave spouts shall be buried beneath the sidewalks and drain into the streets where it is impossible to drain such eave spouts in the alley.
(1964 Code, § 19-14)