(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
HUMAN EXCREMENT. The bowel and kidney discharges of human beings.
SANITARY PIT PRIVY. A privy which is built, rebuilt or constructed so as to conform with the specifications approved by the State Health Department.
SANITARY WATER CLOSET. A flush-type toilet which is connected with a sanitary sewer line of such capacity and construction so as to carry away the contents at all times.
(B) Sanitary facilities required; septic tanks.
(1) Every owner of a residence or other building in which humans reside, are employed or congregate within the town shall install, equip and maintain adequate sanitary facilities for the disposal of human excrement by use of a sanitary water closet or sanitary pit privy. The closets and toilets hereby required shall be of a sanitary water closet-type when located within 150 feet of a sanitary sewer and accessible thereto or of a sanitary water closet-type, notwithstanding a greater distance from a sanitary sewer, a water closet-type emptying into a septic tank system or a pit privy-type.
(2) A septic tank system or a pit privy may be used in such cases only if such meets the standards of and is approved by the State Health Department.
(C) Disposal of human excrement. All human excrement disposed of within the town shall be disposed of by depositing it in closets and privies of the types provided for in this section. It is unlawful for any owner of property within the town to permit the disposal of human excrement thereon in any other manner or for any person to dispose of human excrement within the town in any other manner.
(D) Sanitary condition of privies.
(1) All privies shall be kept clean and sanitary at all times, and the covers of the seats of privies shall be kept closed at all times when the privies are not being used. No wash water, kitchen slop or anything other than human excrement and toilet paper shall be emptied into a privy.
(2) No excrement from any person suffering from typhoid fever, dysentery or other serious bowel diseases shall be deposited in any sanitary pit privy or sanitary water closet until it is disinfected in such a manner as may be prescribed by the Health Officer.
(E) Maintaining a public nuisance unlawful.
(1) All facilities for the disposal of human excrement in a manner different from that required by this section and all privies and closets constructed, situated or maintained so as to endanger the public health are hereby declared to be public nuisances and may be dealt with and abated as such.
(2) Any person maintaining any such nuisance is guilty of an offense, and each day upon which any such nuisance continues is a separate offense.
(Prior Code, § 5-3-11) Penalty, see § 10.99