Each private sewage disposal system shall be maintained in proper sanitary condition and repair by the property owner. It shall be unlawful for any property owner, agent, occupant, or person in control of any building or private sewage disposal system to permit or cause human wastes, excreta, untreated sewage, domestic sewage, laundry wastes, industrial wastes, or the effluent from septic tanks, septic system seepage fields, or other component of a private sewage treatment and disposal, to be discharged, directly or indirectly, onto the ground surface, into any stream, ditch river, artificial watercourse, lake, field drain tile, road drain tile, abandoned well, cave, tunnel, or mineshaft, or to allow the contents of any privy, vault, septic tank, cesspool, seepage pit, or any other part of a private sewage disposal system to omit offensive odors or become dangerous or prejudicial to health, and all such acts or omissions are hereby declared violations of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 4-4-12) (Ord. passed 6-16-1992; Ord. passed 3-21-1995; Ord. passed 12-22-1998; Ord. passed 8-19-2003) Penalty, see § 51.99