No owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any lot or land located within the City shall establish, construct, use or maintain a privy, cesspool or other receptacle for sewage or excreta, or a connection to a private sewer, ditch or other outlet, if such lot or land is accessible to a public sanitary sewer constructed and used for the purpose of conveying sewage. When such public sanitary sewer is available or is hereafter made available, a connection to such sewer shall be established and used within thirty days after service of notice to connect to such public sanitary sewer.
Whenever an approved public sanitary or combined sewerage system is made available, any sewage disposal device or equipment on such property shall be abandoned and the sewage discharged directly from the building to such sewerage system through a properly constructed house sewer. Roof water, cistern overflow, surface or subsoil drainage shall not be discharged into sewage disposal equipment hereinafter specified. An abandoned sewage tank or other device or equipment for treatment or disposal of sewage shall be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected and filled to the ground surface with earth, ashes or other suitable filling material.
(Ord. 1966-23. Passed 4-11-66.)