(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HUMAN EXCREMENT. The bowel and kidney discharge of human beings.
SANITARY PIT PRIVY. A privy which is rebuilt or constructed to conform to the specifications approved by the state’s Department of Health.
SANITARY WATER CLOSET. The flush- type toilet which is connected with a sanitary sewer line of a capacity and construction as to carry away the contents at all times.
(B) (1) Every owner of a residence or other building in which humans reside, are employed or congregate shall install, equip and maintain adequate sanitary facilities for the disposal of human excrement; this requirement shall include a sanitary water closet or closets, a water closet or closets connected to an approved septic tank, or a sanitary pit privy or privies.
(2) The closets and toilets required herein shall be of the sanitary water closet type when located within 300 feet of any municipal sanitary sewer line and accessible thereto. It shall be the duty of every owner of property so located to connect or cause to be connected his or her toilet(s) with the municipal sanitary sewer system and to make every proper connection so that each toilet is properly connected with the sewer system.
(3) When not so located, the closet or toilet shall be of the sanitary water closet types, so connected to a sanitary sewer, notwithstanding the distance from it, the water closet type, connected to a septic tank approved by the county’s Health Officer or the sanitary pit privy type, approved by the county’s Health Officer.
(C) (1) All human excrement shall be disposed of by deposition in closets and privies of the type hereinbefore described.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any owner of property to permit the disposal of human excrement thereon in any other manner, or for any person to dispose of human excrement in any other manner.
(D) All facilities for the disposal of human excrement in a manner different from that required by this code of ordinances, and all privies and closets so constructed, situated or maintained as to endanger the public health, are hereby declared to be public nuisances and may be dealt with, and abated, as such.
(2002 Code, § 92.02) Penalty, see § 92.99