(A) Every owner of a residence or other building in which humans reside, are employed, or congregate within the town shall install, equip, and maintain adequate sanitary facilities for the disposal of human excrement by use of a sanitary water closet or a sanitary pit privy. The closets and toilets required shall be of the sanitary water closet type when located within 200 feet of a sanitary sewer and accessible thereto, and of the sanitary water closet type notwithstanding a greater distance from a sanitary sewer or the water closet type emptying into a septic tank system or the pit privy type. A septic tank system or a pit privy may be used in such cases only if it meets the standard of, and is approved by, the State Health Department.
(B) All human excrement disposed of within the town shall be disposed of by depositing it in closets and privies of the type provided for in this section. It is unlawful for any owner of property within the town to permit the disposal of human excrement thereon in any other manner or for any person the dispose of human excrement within the town in any other manner.
(C) All privies shall be kept clean and sanitary at all times, and the covers of the seats of privies shall be kept closed at all times when the privies are not being used. No wash water, kitchen slop, or anything other than human excrement and toilet paper shall be emptied into a privy. No excrement form any person suffering from typhoid fever, dysentery, or other serious bowel disease shall be deposited in any sanitary pit privy or sanitary water closet until it is disinfected in such a manner as may be prescribed by the Health Department.
(D) All facilities for the disposal of human excrement in a manner different from that required by this section and all privies and closet so constructed, situated, or maintained as to endanger the public health are declared to be public nuisances, and may be dealt with and abated as such. Any person maintaining any such nuisance is guilty of an offense, and each day upon which any such nuisance continues is a separate offense.
(Prior Code, § 8-411) Penalty, see § 51.99