The town may construct or authorize the construction of waterworks within or without the town limits, and for the purpose of maintaining and protecting the same from injury and the water from pollution, its jurisdiction shall extend over the territory occupied by such works, and over all reservoirs, streams, canals, ditches, pipes and drains used in and necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the same, and over the stream or source from which the water is taken, for fifteen (15) miles above the point from which it is taken and for a distance of three hundred feet (300') on each side of such stream and over highways along such stream or watercourse within said fifteen (15) miles and said three hundred feet (300'). All ordinances and regulations, including this chapter, are deemed necessary to carry the power herein conferred into effect, and is to enact among other things, an ordinance preventing pollution or contamination of the streams or watercourses from which the inhabitants of the town derive their water supply, in whole or in part, for domestic and culinary purposes, and this chapter prohibits the construction or maintenance of any closet, privy, outhouse or urinal within the area over which the town has jurisdiction, and provides for permits for the construction and maintenance of the same, applications for which permits must be made to the town council. In granting such permits, the town council may annex thereto such reasonable conditions and requirements for the protection of the public health as they deem proper, and may, if deemed advisable, require that all closets, privies and urinals along such streams shall be provided with effective septic tanks or other instrumentalities deemed necessary to prevent possible contamination of the water provided through the system. (Ord., 10-14-2010; amd. Ord. 2023-01, 1-12-2023)