(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank, or similar contrivance for the reception of sewage when the premises abut on a public sewer line in any street, alley, or other easement in the city. 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 the premises may be connected.
(B) All such privies, surface toilets, or other means of casting or depositing sewerage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, into the soil, into any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well, whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewerage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
(Ord. 830.1, passed 10-21-65; Am. Ord. 1997-7, passed 3-4-97; Am. Ord. 2019-6, passed 4-16-19) Civil offense, see § 38.15