No person shall erect or maintain any dwelling house or business building that abuts on any sidewalk or street within the City without providing proper guttering and eave spouts to receive the waste waters that drip on the streets and sidewalks of the City. All eave spouts erected on any dwelling house or business building within the City shall be constructed to drain into the alleys or shall be buried beneath the sidewalks and drain into the streets where it is impossible to drain the eave spouts into the alley.
(1958 Code § 8.16)