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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)
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)
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)
No person shall draw off, or allow to run off into any ground, public way or place of the city, the contents, or any part thereof, of any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool, or catchbasin; nor shall any owner, tenant, or occupant of any building to which any vault, catchbasin, privy, or cesspool shall appertain or be attached, permit the contents or any part thereof to flow therefrom, or to rise within two feet of any part of the top, or such contents to become offensive.
(Prior code § 99-49)
It shall be unlawful for any person to begin the construction, alteration, or repair of any building, or of any public or private works without having provided proper and sufficient toilet facilities, consisting of water closets, chemical closets, or privies of a type to be approved by the board of health for the use of employees engaged in the construction, alteration or repair of such building, or of such public or private works.
There shall be at least one such water closet, chemical closet, or privy for every 30 employees or fraction thereof. Such toilet facilities in due proportion shall be provided on at least every fifth floor of a building.
It shall be unlawful to install such water closets, chemical closets or privies without first having obtained a permit therefor from the department of buildings pursuant to standards set by the board of health, and the same shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the provisions and specifications of such permit.
(Prior code § 99-51; Amend Coun. J. 12-15-04, p. 40435, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-13-07, p. 14999, Art. II, § 1)
A chemical closet shall be construed to be any closet or privy in which human excreta and urine are deposited in a receptacle containing a solution of caustic hydrates. The receptacle in such a closet shall be watertight. The capacity of such receptacle shall be as follows:
Gallons
Not more than ten persons 60
More than ten but not more than 20 persons 100
More than 40 persons 300
A solution containing at least 16.42 percent crude caustic hydrates (one and two-thirds pounds to one gallon of water) shall be used in such receptacles, and such chemical closets shall not be used until properly charged with such solution.
The contents of such chemical closets shall be removed and disposed of by a regularly licensed night soil scavenger in compliance with the requirements of this Code. Every such closet shall be cleaned before being removed from one building or premises to another, and as often otherwise as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner of health.
(Prior code § 99-52; Amend Coun. J. 12-11-91, p. 10832)
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