(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 Town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet or watercourse within the Town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Town, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this article, as well as with applicable regulations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and the West Virginia Department of Health.
(b) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, sinkhole, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended for wastewater disposal or storage on any property which is presently served by a sanitary sewer of the Town.
(c) The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the Town and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may hereafter be located a sanitary sewer of the Town, are hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article. All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be conducted into the sanitary sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as are established herein or otherwise shall from time to time be established by the Governing Body.
(d) Every privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of the Governing Body, shall be cleansed and filled at the expense of the Owner, and any such receptacle not so abandoned and/or cleansed and filled, shall constitute a public nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law.
(Passed 1-8-85)