§ 53.302 PRIVY, PRIVY VAULTS, CESSPOOLS OR SEPTIC TANKS.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any owner or lessee of any lot or parcel of land within the town to place, deposit or permit to be deposited any human excrement, garbage or any other organic waste upon the premises in a way or place that the same is exposed to flies, rodents, small domestic animals or will endanger water supply.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful to construct and maintain any privy, privy vaults, cesspool or septic tank intended for, or subject to, receiving human excrement wherever a public sanitary sewer is located in any street or alley adjacent to, or within 200 feet of, a lot or parcel of land. Where a sanitary sewer is located in any street or alley adjacent to, or within 200 feet of, any lot or parcel of land on which is located any privy, privy vault, cesspool or septic tank intended for or subject to receiving human excrement, the privy shall be removed and the privy vault, cesspool or septic tank shall be filled with earth.
   (C)   (1)   Where a sanitary sewer is not located in any street or alley adjacent thereto, or within 200 feet of, a lot or parcel of land on which is located an inhabited dwelling, business house, boarding house, lodging house, eating place, shop, factory, public hall, place of amusement, or any other building in the town, a water-flush toilet or a sanitary privy of the type of construction approved by the State Board of Health shall be provided by the owner or agency of the premises.
      (2)   Where a water-flush system of excreta disposal is installed or is in use, which is not connected to the public sewer system, there shall be installed a private sewage disposal plant consisting of a septic tank and a system of underground drainage for the disposal of the septic tank effluent.
      (3)   The sanitary privy, water-flush toilet, and private disposal plank shall be constructed and maintained in an approved manner as described and illustrated in Bulletin Nos. 8 and 11, or any revisions thereof, of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State Board of Health.
(Ord. 5, passed 11-2-1950; Am. Ord. 2019-10, passed 12-2-2019) Penalty, see § 53.999