Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available, all persons owning or leasing property in the county outside the corporate limits of the City of Rising Sun shall comply with the following provisions of this subchapter for private sewage disposal systems.
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the county, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the county, any human excrement or sewage.
(B) (1) At any business building situated within the county where there is installed a sewage disposal system which is not connected to a public sewer system, and no public sewer system is available, there shall be established, installed or constructed and maintained a private sewage disposal system which shall comply with the standards of the state’s Board of Health as contained in Bulletin SE 13 of the state’s Board of Health or in such other manner as approved by the state’s Board of Health.
(2) Copies of Bulletin SE 13 are herewith incorporated by reference as part of this section and two copies are filed in the offices of the County Auditor and the county’s Health Officer for public inspection.
(C) Any privy situated within the county shall be of the sanitary type and shall be constructed and maintained in a clean condition and so that insects and rodents cannot enter the vault. Any privy shall be located properly to protect water supplies from contamination.
(D) All private residential sewage disposal systems and privies shall be installed, constructed and maintained in an approved manner as described in Bulletins SE 8 and 11 of the state’s Board of Health, copies of which are herewith incorporated by reference as a part of this section and two copies filed in the offices of the County Auditor and the county’s Health Officer for public inspection.
(E) The installation of any other private residential sewage disposal systems not described in the state’s Board of Health Bulletins SE 8 and 11 of mechanical, chemical or other means may be approved by the county’s Health Officer after the Board of County Commissioners has filed the requirements, plans and specifications of such device or system in the offices of the Auditor and the county’s Health Officer; said requirements, plans and specifications must bear the written approval of the state’s Board of Health.
(F) Should any defect exist or occur in any private sewage disposal system or privy which would cause said sewage disposal system or privy to fail to meet the requirements in this section and cause an unsanitary condition, the defect shall be corrected immediately by the owner or agent of the owner, occupant or agent of the occupant. Failure to do so shall be a violation of this subchapter.
(G) Wherever a public combined or sanitary sewer becomes available and is within a reasonable distance, as determined by the county’s Board of Health or the duly appointed Health Officer, of the property line of the residential or business property, served by a private sewage disposal system or privy, situated within the county, a direct connection shall be made to said sewer and any septic tanks, seepage pits, outhouses, privy pits and similar sewage disposal and treatment facilities shall be abandoned and filled in a safe and sanitary manner.
(H) Whenever a new business, building or subdivision is developed in an area where a public combined or sanitary sewer is available, a connection shall be made to said sewer if such connection can be made at a reasonable cost.
(Ord. 77-2, passed 2-6-1978) Penalty, see § 50.99