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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 50ORDINANCE NO. 50 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRIG SANITARY TOILETS; MARKING UNLAWFUL THE IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF HUMAN EXCRETA AND SANITARY SEWAGE REQUIREING CONNECTION TO CITY CANITARY SEWER WHEN ACCESSIBLE; DECLARING PRIVIES OR SEPTIC TANK SYSTEMS NOT CONFORMING TO THIS ORDINANCE A NUISANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE REPAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR SEPARABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF OWASSO, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Definitions. (a) Human Excreta. That the term "Human Excreta" as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean te bowel and kidney discharges of human beings. (b) Sanitary Sewge. That the term "Sanitary Sewage" as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean all water carried or liquid wastes resulting from the normal domestic and commercial activities of man, including but not confined to any of the following sources: toilets, sinks, lavatories, bath tubs, showers, laundry. It shall not be construded as including clear storm or ground water, or cooling water uncontaminted with waste material. (c) Sanitary Water Closets. That the term "Sanitary Water Closets: as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean the flush type toilet with flushing rim bowl, fitted with either a siphon dischare, a flush tank, or automatic flush valve, and connected with a sanitary sewer or approved septic tank system. (d)Approved Septic Tank System.that the term "APPROVED SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM" as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean a septic tank-lateral field system which is built, rebuilt or constructed so as to conform to the specifications approved by the State Health Department. (e) Approved SanitaryPit Privy. That the term "Sanitary Pit Privy" as used in this ordinance shall be construed to mean a privy which is built, rebuilt, or constructed so as to confrom to the specifications approved by the State Health Department. Section 2. Toilets Required. that every building where persons reside or are employed or congregate shall be required to have a sanitary water closet or closets or a sanitary pit privy or privies. That the only toilets permitted by this ordinance shall be the sanitary water closet type connected to the sanitary sewer when the property is located iwthin two hundred and fifty feet of a sanitary sewer and accessible thereto, and a sanitary water closet conected to an approved septic tank, or a sanitary pit privy when not so located. Section 3. Disposal of Human Excreta. That it shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of human excreta or permit the disposal of human excreta on property under his control except into a sanitary water closet or closets or sanitary pit privy or privies. Section 4. Disposal of Sanitary Sewage. That it shallbe unlawful for any person to dispose of sanitary sewage or to permit the disposal of sanitary sewage on property under his control except into a sanitary sewer or approved septic tank system. Section 5. Privies and Septic Tank Systems Unlawful. That it shall be unlawful and a nuisance for any person in possession or control of any premises within the corporate limits of the City to construct or to maintain any privy, whether sanitary or not, or to construct or to maintain any spetic tank system not an approved septic tank system functioning properly if such property now or hereafter abuts on any lateral sewer distruct or if such property is located i any sewer distruct already or hereafter established or within two hundred and fifty feet of any public, district, or lateral sanitary sewer line. That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of every property owner who owns peroperty abutting to and along the sewer lines to connect or cause to be connected his or their toilets or toilets and other sources of sanitary dewage with the sanitary sewers of said city. Section 6. Privies and Septic Tank Systems a nuisance. That all privies and all septic tank systems on any premises within the corporate limits of the city not located, constructed or maintained in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby declared to be a nuisance and a menace to the public health. Section 7. Repeal. And that any and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict hereiwth are repealed. Section 8. Separability Clause. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to beinvalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the vlidity of the remaining ports of this ordinance. Section 9. Penalty. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine in any amount not to exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense, and each day any such person violates any provision of this ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. Section 10. Emergency. That an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare, by reson whereof this ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage, approval and publication. PASSED, and the emergency clause ruled upon separately, and approved this 5th day of April, 1955. APPROVED, this 5th day of April, 1955. W J Bryson President of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Owasso, Oklahoma. ATTEST: Josephine Downey Town Clerk