It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, well, vault, cesspool, cistern, septic tank or similar contrivance for the reception of flowable sewage where sewers are available, and all privies, wells, vaults, cesspools, cisterns, septic tanks, facilities and similar contrivances shall be removed or disconnected by the owners and the occupants of premises to which sewers are made available in the city as soon as the same are made available to the premises. All privies, facilities and 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 is contaminated with sewage, are hereby declared to be unlawful and to constitute a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 51.25) (Ord. 498, passed 5-24-1988) Penalty, see § 50.99