§ 53.03 POLLUTION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY.
   (A)   No privy vault, cesspool, public or private sewer, receptacle for sewage or excreta, hogpen, barn, manure pit, slaughterhouse or other source of pollution shall be established, constructed, maintained or permitted to remain within 500 feet of the wells now or hereafter installed for the purpose of furnishing the public water supply of the village, unless such privy vault, cesspool, sewer, receptacle for sewage or excreta, hogpen, barn, manure pit, slaughterhouse or other source of pollution be so constructed as to be water-tight and so maintained that none of the liquid or solid substances contained therein or intended to be contained therein shall be permitted to reach the surface of the ground or to enter the soil within said distance of 500 feet.
   (B)   (1)   Each owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of occupied lots or lands within 500 feet of said wells shall make, maintain and use a connection with a public sanitary sewer, if such sewer is accessible or shall make such a connection to a sanitary sewer as soon as such sewer is made accessible.
      (2)   If a sanitary sewer is accessible or as soon as such sewer is accessible any privy, cesspool or other receptacle for sewage or excreta within said distance of 500 feet shall be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected, filled with suitable filling material and abandoned.
      (3)   If a public sanitary sewer is not accessible, a water-tight privy vault, cesspool or other receptacle for sewage or excreta shall be installed and maintained, as provided by section.
   (C)   No person, firm or corporation shall deposit or place or cause to be deposited or placed, any dead animal, offal, garbage or other filthy or poisonous substance upon the ground or in any stream or body of water within 500 feet of said wells.
(Ord. 59, passed 8-14-1915; Ord. 312, passed 8-25-1941) Penalty, see § 53.99