(A) Every building shall be provided with good and sufficient water closets or privies and shall have proper doors, traps, soil pans and suitable works and arrangements, so far as may be necessary to ensure the efficient operation thereof. All cesspools and privy vaults shall be water-tight.
(B) No privy vault or cesspool for sewerage shall be permitted in any part of the city where a public sewer is provided in front of the property lines and no connection from any cesspool or privy vault shall be made with any sewer or drain pipe, nor shall any opening be made in the sewer pipe of a building for the purpose of affording surface drainage for the cellar without provision against the access of sewer air into the building.
(C) Every house situated upon a lot or street in which there is a sewer shall have the sinks, stationary and bathtubs, water closets or privies furnished with a proper connection with the sewer, which connection shall be in all parts adequate for the purpose, so as to permit whatever enters therein to pass entirely and freely therefrom.
(D) All water closets and vaults shall be provided with the proper traps and connected with the house sewer by a proper tight pipe and shall be furnished with sufficient water and other proper means for flushing the same and every owner, lessee and occupant shall take adequate measures to prevent improper substances from entering such water closets or privies or their connections and to secure the prompt removal of any improper substances that may enter them so that no accumulation shall take place and so as to prevent any exhalation therefrom, offensive, dangerous or prejudicial to health and so as to prevent the same from becoming obstructed.
(E) No privy vault, cesspool or reservoir into which a privy, water closet, stable or sink is drained shall be established or permitted within 80 feet of any well, spring or other source of water for drinking or culinary purposes without written permission of the Building Department, and every privy vault and cesspool shall be cleared and the contents thereof removed, at least once before March 1 in each year.
(Prior Code, § 94.047) (Ord. 2017-005, passed 2-27-2017)