16.10.020   Construction of private sewage systems - Conditions prohibited.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain any cesspool, septic tank, sewage treatment works, sewer pipes or conduits, or other pipes or conduits for the treatment or discharge of sewage or impure waters or any matter or substance offensive, injurious or dangerous to health, whereby they shall do any of the following:
   (a)   Overflow any lands whatever.
   (b)   Empty, flow, seep, drain into or affect any springs, streams, rivers, lakes or other surface waters.
   (c)   Allow free access of insects, rodents, or other vermin to sewage or other waste matter.
   (d)   Produce an odor condition which, in the opinion of the city or the health officer, constitutes a public nuisance.
(Ord. 1927 (part), 1960: prior code § 30.02)