913.08 SPECIFICATIONS FOR PRIVIES AND PRIVY VAULTS.
The construction of a privy and privy vaults shall be as follows:
The privy shall be provided with a watertight vault or other watertight receptacle which shall be of not less than 500 gallons capacity. However, the vault may be constructed with an open or porous bottom to permit leaching away of the liquid contents, if the vault is located not less than 100 feet from any water supply used for drinking and culinary purposes, and at such a location that the liquids leaching from the vault will not discharge at the ground surface or into a sink hole, crevice or other opening extending into limestone, sandstone or other rock or shale formation.
No privy vault shall be located less than fifty feet from any well or spring used for drinking or culinary purposes, twenty feet from any building of human occupancy or street line or less than five feet from any lot or alley line.
The construction of the vault and superstructure shall be such as to prevent access to the vault by flies, insects, rats, chickens and other fowls and animals.
The design of the privy and privy vaults shall be in accordance with or equal to the recommendations of the Department of Health.
(Ord. 49-66. Passed 5-17-66.)