7-28-540 Location of privy vault.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain any privy vault or allow the same to remain upon any premises abutting upon any public way or public place in which is located a public sewer.

(Prior code § 99-44)

7-28-550 Distance from other buildings.

   It shall constitute, and is hereby declared, a nuisance for any person to erect or maintain any privy as near as 40 feet to any public way, dwelling, shop, school, factory, church, or public hall or within 100 feet of any well, unless the privy be furnished with a substantial vault six feet deep and made tight so that contents cannot escape therefrom, and sufficiently secured and enclosed. Any person owning, erecting, or maintaining any privy in violation of this section shall be subject to a penalty of $10.00, and a like penalty for every week he shall maintain or continue the same after the first conviction.

(Prior code § 99-45)

7-28-560 Vault contents.

   It shall be unlawful for the owner, agent, occupant, or person in control of any lot, building, structure, premises, or place within the city to permit or allow the contents of any tub, or of any receptacle, cesspool, privy, catchbasin, vault, sink, water closet, cistern, or anything in any room, excavation, vat, building, premises, or place to become a nuisance or offensive so as to be dangerous or prejudicial to health.

(Prior code § 99-46)

7-28-570 Offensive privies and catchbasins.

   All privies or catchbasins, any part of the contents of which are above the surface, or within two feet of the surface of the earth, and all other privies or catchbasins that are foul, or emit smells and odors prejudicial to the public health, are hereby declared nuisances, and the commissioner of buildings shall have the power to abate the same.

(Prior code § 99-47)

7-28-580 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. II, § 7, repealed § 7-28-580, which pertained to the removal of vault contents.