(a) No septic tank, leaching bed, or other device for the private treatment of wastewater shall be permitted within the limits of the Municipality, unless the Municipality wastewater facilities cannot be used. That fact will be endorsed upon the application by the Superintendent of Wastewater Facilities. The applicant may then construct a private wastewater facility including septic tank and leaching bed, which shall be constructed to the standards provided for by the County Department of Health.
(b) Where the wastewater facilities of the Municipality is accessible to a property, no privy shall be constructed, maintained, or used by any person. The Superintendent shall notify the owner of any property served by such a privy to provide such property with proper sanitary wastewater facilities or discontinue the use and occupancy of the property. If, within 60 days after such notice, the privy is not done away with and the property either vacated or proper wastewater facilities provided, the Superintendent shall file proceedings in court to prosecute the owner or occupant of the property. The property owner shall be subject to the penalties provided in Section 921.99 for failure to comply with such an order.
(c) From and after the effective date of this chapter, no person shall construct or put into operation any septic tank, cesspool, leaching bed, or other private facility for the treatment of wastewater except as provided for in subsection (a) above. Any private wastewater treatment facility now in operation shall be bypassed and abandoned as soon as that facility shall become in need of repair or other servicing, any such bypass to be reported to the Superintendent for his inspection and approval. There shall be a charge of ten dollars ($10.00) for the inspection.
(Ord. 1179. Passed 3-21-77.)