(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, maintain, or permit to be constructed or maintained any outdoor toilet, privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other similar contrivance for the reception of sewage on any lands owned by that person or under his or her control, which abut upon a sewage collection line in any public street, alley, or other easement, or through which a sewage collection line passes or to which a sewage collection line is hereafter available. All such outdoor toilets or privies shall be removed, and all such vaults, cesspools, septic tanks, or other similar contrivances for the reception of sewage shall be closed or filled or otherwise removed from the properties described above within 90 days after sewage collection service becomes available.
(B) All privies, surface toilets, or other means of casting or depositing sewage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well whereby the soil or any surface or sub-surface waters is contaminated with such sewage are hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance and their use or maintenance for a period of more than 90 days following the availability of a sewage collection line to the property is hereby prohibited.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, well, vault, cesspool, cistern, septic tank, or similar contrivance for the reception of flowable sewage where sewers are available, and all such privies, wells, vaults, cesspools, cisterns, septic tanks, facilities, and similar contrivances shall be removed or disconnected by the owners and the occupants of premises to which sewers are made available in the city as soon as the same are made available to such premises. All privies, facilities, and other means of casting or depositing sewage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well, whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 50.032) (Ord. 610.3, passed 3-16-1982) Penalty, see § 10.99