In all districts, property owners of all buildings and places where people live, work or assemble shall provide for the sanitary disposal of all sewage in accordance with the following requirements.
(A) Whenever the public sanitary sewerage system is reasonably accessible (that is, when the distance from the property in question to the nearest public sewer with available capacity does not exceed 150 feet), all sewage shall be discharged into such system whether or not a private sewerage system already exists or is more convenient.
(B) Whenever the public sanitary sewerage system is not reasonably accessible, a private sewerage system shall be installed and used. All private sewerage systems shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintained in conformity with the following requirements:
(1) State Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act, 225 ILCS 225/1 through 225/23, as amended from time to time;
(2) State Private Sewage Disposal Code No. 4.002, promulgated by the Director of the state’s Department of Public Health, as amended from time to time;
(3) Pertinent, current regulations issued by the state’s Environmental Protection Agency; and
(4) Applicable codes and regulations of the city, particularly Ch. 158 of this code of ordinances.
(C) The Administrator shall not issue any initial certificate of zoning compliance unless, following consultation with the City Engineer, he or she is satisfied that these requirements will be met.
(Prior Code, § 40-3-14)