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 II, § 7, repealed § 7-28-580, which pertained to the removal of vault contents.

7-28-590 Drawing off contents.

   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)

7-28-600 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. II, § 7, repealed § 7-28-600, which pertained to vehicles for removal of vault contents.

7-28-610 Workmen's temporary closets.

   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)

7-28-620 Chemical closets.

   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)

ARTICLE IV. OFFENSIVE CHEMICALS AND SUBSTANCES (7-28-630 et seq.)

7-28-630 Possession and sale – Violation – Penalty.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession, or for any person to carry about, any corrosive or caustic acid, including but not limited to sulfuric acid, phosphorus, or any solution or mixture thereof, or any hydrogen sulfide, valerianic acid, ammonium valerianate, valerianate of zinc, or any other nauseous, offensive, or filthy substance of like or similar nature; provided, that this provision shall not apply to manufacturing and wholesale druggists, retail druggists, physicians, chemists, regularly established laboratories, or to persons who have procured any of said substances for medicinal purposes upon a prescription of a physician regularly licensed under the laws of the state.

   No person shall sell, give away, or offer to sell or give away, or have in his possession any stink ball or fire ball, or any bomb, ball tube, vial, or bottle made of thin glass or other easily breakable material containing any of the above-mentioned substances.

   Any violation of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $1,500.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 99-53; Amend Coun. J. 11-10-10, p. 105160, § 2)