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 upon a public sewer line in any street, alley, or other easement, and 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. All privies, surface toilets, or other means of casting or depositing sewage into a container above or below the surface of the ground, or upon or into the soil, any running or percolating stream of water, or into any cistern or well whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
('76 Code, § 90.02) (Ord. 628-1940, passed - - - ; Am. Ord. 780-1960, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 50.99