(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the city or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(C) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater.
(D) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the city, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and at owner’s expense to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 30 days after date of official notice in writing to do so; provided, that the public sewer is within 300 feet of the property line. No privy vault, water closet, cesspool, or septic tank shall hereafter be built, constructed, repaired or allowed to remain on the premises after the notice in writing as aforesaid shall have been given to the owner. In case the property owner on whose property is located any privy vault, water closet, cesspool, or septic tank in violation of this section shall neglect or refuse to fill up and discontinue the privy vault, water closet, cesspool, or septic tank and properly connect with the sewer main, as required in the notice, the Mayor and Council shall have the power to cause the privy vault, water closet, cesspool, or septic tank to be filled up or removed from the premises, the cost of which shall be a lien upon the premises and real estate of the property, and if not paid when due, such charge shall be certified to the City Treasurer and may be recovered by the city in an action at law from the owner or it may be certified to the tax assessor and assessed against the premises served and collected or returned in the same manner as other municipal taxes are certified; assessed, collected and returned. Services of the notice herein required shall be either by registered mail or by publication one time in a legal newspaper published in or of general circulation in the city.
(Prior Code, § 52.02) Penalty, see § 52.99