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 in the city, and all the privies, wells, vaults, cesspools, cisterns, septic tanks, facilities, and similar contrivances shall be removed by the owners and the occupants of premises where sewers are now available, or as soon as sewers are made available to those premises. All the privies, facilities, and other means of casting or depositing sewage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, or 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 the sewage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
(Ord. 5-25-64-2, passed 5-25-1964) Penalty, see § 50.999