Ord 1595 1/28/1952O iDli"TA CE
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O'1'ICE TO TTHE 0-7 r,_TE 2 R 0 P EliTY "TI VIN" `-' l ,)' jNER OF THE PROP-
ERTY 30 DAYS TIME IN 'WHICH TO COi i�t.cCT HIS 'RL' ISi2S ''ITTH SA 11''_WRY
SEATER, PROVIDINGA PElAL'1�Y JTi "H., A'AILI RE TOO SO AFTER ;OTICE
A11D PROVIDING THAT EACH �A,.r ?'1-iAT SKID UNCONNECTED
'IJITLI `"i''i ;: SE41(ER A-TE_i 10'P ICI SHALL 3E A S:�PARATE OFFENSE; STATTITG
KE ?TTI_��, IiTS FJT' 'CRY r"OILETS; PE' ALTY AND REFEALING ORDINANCE
1,;0. 281.
3E IT J1 T_ DAIED BY '1TH '30ARD OW ALDER ' E.—N OF THE' CITY OF
:JICrI'nA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. All owners or occupants of pre-_;i.ises in the
City of Wichita :Falls, Texas, having privies or dry toilets on
such premises must if ilthin 200 feet of any sanitary sewer make
permanent connection with the same.
SEC12 0iy 2. Either upon co 1plaint or upon its own
initiative, the health. Depart cent of the City of �uichita ally,
Texas, shall notify the owners of all premises in the City of
Wic'nita Falls having privies or dry toilets on such. _premises if
within 200 feet of any sanitary sewer, or at any time when a
sanitary sewer is laid within 200 feet of such breidises, ivin ;
suc'.z owners notice to connect such premises with the sal-litary
sewer, and to make permanent connection with the sar,ie.
SECT .ON 3. If after such notice the owner of such pre-
mises shall fail or refuse to connect his premises with the sani-
tary sewer if the salve is within 200 feet of his premises, he
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined any sum not to exceed
,5200.00, and providin- further that each day that he so tails to
connect his premises with the sanitary sewer as providid herein
shall be a separate offense.
SECTION 4. 1'vhen such premises are not within two hund-
red feet of any public sanitary sewer, the owners or occupants
thereof are required to construct privies of that type recorm-nended
by, the _'exas State Board of Health and adopted by the local 3oard
of Health. All such privies are to be so constructed and main-
tained that the excremental contents thereof are thoroughly pro-
tected against the access of flies and it shall be required that
upon the contents of each privy, the occupants of -the -premises
which that privy serves, shall use some effective and approved
deodorant and disinfectant at sufficient frequent intervals to
prevent such privy from becomin;_; a nuisance.
SECTION. then the privies so constructed are of the
pit type the pit shall be not less than four feet deep and such
pits shall not be allowed to become .more than three -fourths full.
As it becomes necessary, new pits shall be dug and the abandoned
pits filled in such manner that the excremental contents will be
covered with at least one foot of earth.
SECTION 6. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any per-
son to throw or deposit any slops, wash water, arbaI.De, or any
other liquid waste onto the excremental contents of any such dry
toilet.
SECTSO:'- 7. Any person, firm, or corporation violating
any of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed r^ui lty of
a misdemeanor and Upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not
exceeding }200.00.
SECTION 8. Ordinance T,To. 281 is hereby repealed.
PASSED !AI+ID A_'P:'OVED, this 28th day of January, A. D .
1972.
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