The Residential Code of Ohio for One-, Two-, and Three-Family Dwellings, as adopted in Section 1422.01, is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Unsafe Buildings. See Title Eight - Property Maintenance Code, of this Building and Housing Code.
(b) Private Sewage Disposal Systems.
(1) Contents prohibited above ground. No privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, public or private sewer or drain receptacle for sewage or excreta shall be established, constructed, maintained and used, or permitted to remain and be used, so that the liquid or solid substances contained therein or intended to be contained therein shall be permitted to reach the surface of the ground or any street or gutter in the City.
(2) Plan approval; inspections. No privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, public or private sewer or drain receptacle for sewage or excreta shall be established or constructed in the City unless and until plans and specifications therefor have been submitted to and approved, in writing, by the County Health Commissioner. When the same has been constructed, it shall not be used for such purpose until there has been a final inspection and written approval made by the County Health Commissioner and until the same has been filed with the City Engineer.
(Ord. 22-00. Passed 11-20-00; Ord. 14-04. Passed 12-20-04; Ord. 13-10. Passed 11-15-10.)