(a) No person shall place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste. No person shall discharge to any natural outlet or watercourse within the city, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the city, any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this article, as well as with applicable regulations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and the state’s Department of Health.
(b) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, sinkhole, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended for wastewater disposal or storage on any property which is presently served by a sanitary sewer of the city.
(c) The owners of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the city and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may hereafter be located a sanitary sewer of the city, are hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article. All sanitary sewage and industrial wastes from any improved property, after connection of such improved property with a sewer shall be conducted into the sanitary sewer, subject to such limitations and restrictions as are established herein or otherwise shall from time to time be established by Council.
(d) Every privy vault, cesspool, sinkhole, septic tank or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned and, at the discretion of Council, shall be cleansed and filled at the expense of the owner, and any such receptacle not so abandoned and/or cleansed and filled, shall constitute a public nuisance and such nuisance may be abated as provided by law.