(a) It shall be unlawful for any Person to place, deposit, permit or otherwise allow to be placed or deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or objectionable waste.
(b) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet or watercourse situated within any area under the jurisdiction of the City any wastewater or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided, and as authorized by the Control Authority in accordance with the provisions of this article as well as with any and all applicable regulations of the U.S. EPA, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Health Services.
(c) Except as provided through this article, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, sinkhole, septic tank, cesspool, pretreatment system or any other facility intended for wastewater pretreatment, disposal or storage on any property, public or private, which is presently served by a sanitary sewer of the City.
(d) The Owners of all houses, buildings, properties or improved properties used for human occupancy, business enterprise, employment, or recreation situated such that it comes under or within the jurisdiction of the City and abutting on any street, alley, right-of-way or easement in which there is now located or may hereafter be located a sanitary sewer of the City, are hereby required, at the Owner's expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with a City approved sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article.
All sanitary sewage, domestic, non-domestic, or industrial wastewaters from any improved property, after connection of the property to the sanitary sewer shall be discharged to the sanitary sewer, subject to such limitations, conditions, and restrictions as established herein, or those which shall otherwise be established by the City.
(e) Every privy, privy vault, sinkhole, septic tank, cesspool or similar receptacle in existence shall be abandoned, as provided by law, and at the City's discretion, shall be cleansed and filled at the Owner's expense.
(1) Any such receptacle not so abandoned, cleansed or filled, as directed by the City, shall constitute a Public Nuisance, and such nuisance shall be abated as provided by law. (Ord. O-3-08. Passed 7-24-08.)