(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank or similar contrivance for the receipt of sewage when the premises abut upon a public sewer line in any street, alley or other easement in the city, 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.
(B) All such privies or 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 or into 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.
(1989 Code, § 52.015) (Ord. 1019, passed - -1965) Penalty, see § 51.999