(a) Location of Privy Vaults, Cesspools, and Septic Tanks. No owner, occupant, or person in charge of any premises so situated as to permit connection with any sanitary sewer shall maintain or permit to be maintained on or in connection with such premises any privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other repository for human excreta.
(b) Unsanitary Vaults. It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner, lessor, occupant, or person in charge of any premises upon which a privy vault, cesspool, or septic tank is located to permit such vault, pool, or tank, or any building, fixture, or device appurtenant thereto, to become foul, noisome, filthy, or offensive to neighboring property owners.
(c) Removal of Contents of Vault. Whenever any part of the waste in any privy vault or cesspool extends to a point less than three feet below the surface of the ground adjacent thereto, or whenever use of any such vault or cesspool is abandoned or where such use or maintenance is prohibited by ordinance or health order, the owner, lessor, occupant or person in charge of such premises shall cause the vault or cesspool to be emptied of its contents, thoroughly cleaned, and disinfected, and if abandoned, to be filled with clean earth or mineral matter to the level of the adjacent ground.
(d) Deposit of Dead Animals, Offal. No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or spoiled meat, spoiled fish, or other putrid substance or the contents of a privy vault, upon or into a lake, river, bay, creek, pond, canal, well, spring, reservoir of water works, road, street, alley, lot, meadow, public ground, market place, or common ground. No owner or occupant of such place shall knowingly permit such thing to remain therein to the annoyance of any citizen or neglect to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within twenty-four (24) hours after knowledge of the existence thereof, or after notice thereof in writing from the Village Zoning Inspector.
(Ord. 1-16. Passed 3-28-16.)
(Ord. 1-16. Passed 3-28-16.)