12-1-5: EXISTING SYSTEMS:
   A.   Continued System Use: The legal use and occupancy of any structure serviced by an individual sewage disposal system, which had been heretofore approved, shall be permitted to be continued without change, except as specifically addressed in this Title.
   B.   System Maintenance: All individual sewage disposal systems, both existing and new, shall be maintained in a safe and sanitary condition. All service equipment, devices and safeguards which are required by this Title, or which were required by previous statute, shall be maintained in working order as when installed or repaired.
      1.   Maintenance Responsibility: The owner of record, the beneficial owner, and the occupant of the premises shall each be jointly and severally responsible for the safe and sanitary maintenance of the individual sewage disposal system for any building or structure at all times. (Ord. 96-O-16, 12-17-1996)