§ 34-97. Unsanitary or offensive privies or water closets.

(a)

Sewer traps required. All water closets and privies connected with any house, building or premises within the city upon which people live, or where they congregate or assemble, or where any kind of business is done, kept in a filthy or offensive condition or from which noisome odors or noxious gases arise, and all water closets located within and being a part of any such house or building, not provided with proper sewer traps so as to prevent the return and escape of noxious gases and offensive odors from any public or private sewer connected therewith, are hereby declared nuisances injurious to health, and are unlawful.

(b)

Cleaning of privies. Night soil, not thoroughly deodorized and disinfected, remaining in privies in the city, is hereby declared a nuisance injurious to health, and the health officer, if necessary, may order such privies to be cleaned, and it shall be unlawful for any person owning or occupying premises on which any privy is situated to refuse to permit the privy to be inspected and cleansed at the times designated by the health officer, whenever necessary.

(c)

Notice to remove water closet or other installation. If at any time any water closet, or other such installation where filth usually accumulates, shall become objectionable or obnoxious by reason of its relative location to any street, lane, alley, watercourse or pond within the city, or by reason of its being so located as to be offensive or dangerous to the occupants of adjoining premises, the health officer may, within his sound discretion, order the removal of the water closet or other installation to some portion of the premises on which it is located, and where the same objection will not exist on account of location, and shall serve a written notice on the owner or agent of the premises requiring the removal and designating the place to which the water closet or other installation shall be removed and requiring that such removal be made within ten days from the time of the service of the notice. If such owner or agent shall fail or refuse to remove such water closet or other installation within the time specified in the notice, then the health officer may remove the water closet or other installation at the cost of the city, and the court, in fixing the fine of the owner or agent of the premises, shall consider the amount of the cost of removing such closet or other such installation, and shall impose on such owner or agent a fine not less than double the amount of the actual cost of removal.

(Code 1961, §§ 13-20, 13-22; Code 1985, § 12-7)

Cross reference

Sanitary sewer system, § 70-31 et seq.; plumbing standards, § 82-61 et seq.