(A) (1) The Health Officer of the township, in order to protect the health and safety of the people of the township and of the general public, is authorized and directed, after public hearing, to promulgate and amend, from time to time, regulations establishing minimum standards governing the design, construction, installation and operation of individual sewage disposal systems.
(2) Such regulations shall establish such minimum standards as, in the judgment of the Health Officer, will ensure that the waste discharged to various individual sewage disposal systems:
(a) Do not contaminate any drinking water supply;
(b) Are not accessible to insects, rodents or other possible carriers of disease which may come into contact with food or drinking water;
(c) Do not pollute or contaminate the waters of any bathing beach, shellfish breeding grounds or stream used for public or domestic water-supply purposes;
(d) Are not a health hazard by being accessible to children;
(e) Do not give rise to a nuisance due to odor or unsightly appearance; and
(f) Will not violate any other laws or regulations governing water pollution or sewage disposal.
(B) The Health Officer is authorized to promulgate such additional regulations as are necessary in his or her judgment to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
(Ord. 195, passed 12-12-1959) Penalty, see § 52.999