(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain or permit to be constructed or maintained any outdoor toilet, privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank or other similar contrivance for the reception of sewage on any lands owned by the person, or under his or her control, which abut upon a sewage collection line in any public street, alley or other easement or through which a sewage collection line passes or to which a sewage collection line is hereafter available; all outdoor toilets or privies shall be removed; and all vaults, cesspools, septic tanks or other similar contrivances for the reception of sewage shall be closed or filled or otherwise removed from the properties described above within 90 days after sewage collection service becomes available.
(B) All privies, surface toilets or other means of casting or depositing sewage into a container above or below the surface of the ground or upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water or into any cistern or well whereby the soil or any surface or subsurface waters is contaminated with sewage are hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance and their use or maintenance for a period of more than 90 days following the availability of a sewage collection line to the property is hereby prohibited.
(Prior Code, § 51.19) (Ord. 498, passed 5-24-1988) Penalty, see § 50.99