(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool or similar contrivance for the reception of human excreta or other sewerage when the premises abut upon a public sewer line in either street, alley or other easement or private property. All such privies or toilets shall be removed by the owners and the occupants of the property abutting on any street, alley or other easement or private property on which runs a sewer line and to which the drainage from such premises may be connected. All such privies or surface toilets or other means of casting or depositing human excreta or other sewerage upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water or into any cistern, well or sink whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewerage are hereby declared to be nuisances and shall be abated.
(B) When the house, hotel, manufacturing or commercial establishment or other building from which the sewerage drained is situated on a lot not abutting on a street, alley or other easement or private property in which a line of the municipal sewer system runs and which, for this reason, may not be drained into public sewer system, then the sewerage from such locations may be drained into a state septic tank or into a state pit with concrete floor and riser. Where inside toilets not connected with the municipal sewer system for reasons of location as stated above, then so long as such conditions exist, such sewerage shall be drained into a state septic tank constructed according to the specifications prescribed by the State Board of Health. Where there is no inside toilet, then the sewerage from such premises shall be connected with a pit with concrete floor and riser constructed and maintained according to the specifications of the State Board of Health. Such specifications are set out in printed exhibits of the State Board of Health marked “A” and “B” respectively, and now made a part of this chapter by reference, and one copy marked “A” and the other “B” are attached to Ord. dated 11-2-1953. The construction of such septic tank or pit above referred to shall be approved by the State Board of Health or by an authorized representative of the city, or by the City Engineer, as conforming to the terms of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 50.27) (Ord. passed 11-2-1953) Penalty, see § 50.999