It shall be unlawful to maintain, or use, any residence, place of business or other building or place where persons reside, congregate, or are employed which is not provided with means for the disposal of sewage, either by connection to a public sanitary sewerage system, or when it is judged permissible by the city and the health officer, a private sewage disposal system which meets the requirements of construction and maintenance hereinafter described. It shall be unlawful to use or maintain a pit or vault privy excepting that no requirement herein shall prohibit the lawful use of portable chemical toilets on a temporary basis.
The objective of this chapter shall be provision of public sanitary sewerage facilities for every residence, place of business, or other building where persons reside, congregate, or are employed except where provision of such public sewerage facilities is not feasible. To this end, the city shall have the right to prohibit the installation of private sewage disposal systems in subdivisions except where, in the opinion of the city, installation of public sanitary sewerage facilities is clearly not feasible. The city shall also have the right to require a subdivider to deposit with the city a cash sum equal to the estimated total cost of construction of a sanitary sewer system to serve a proposed subdivision which is to be served initially by individual sewage disposal facilities, or require subdivider to construct an approved sanitary sewer system in addition to provision of individual sewage disposal facilities.
(Ord. 1927 (part), 1960: prior code § 30.01)