It shall be unlawful and an offense for any owner, occupant
or holder of property, or his authorized agent, to maintain or permit
upon any property under his direction or control any privy or dry
closet of any kind or description for human excrement, where any of
the improvements of the property are connected with a sewer line.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any person, firm or corporation or tenant, or their agents, servants or employees in possession or control of any premises within the corporate limits of the city to erect or maintain thereon any privy, privy vault or cesspool if such property now or hereafter abuts any lateral sewer, or if such property is located in any sewer district already or hereafter established. Such nuisance may be abated either in the manner provided by Section 10-14 of this Code or as provided by Sections 14-2 to 14-10 of this Code.
It is hereby made the duty of the Weatherford Health Officer
to immediately notify in writing any person, firm, corporation, tenant
or their agents, servants or employees in possession or control of
any premises described in the above section who may be erecting or
maintaining any such privy, privy vault or cesspool in, or upon the
premises so described to appear and show cause why such privy, privy
vault, or cesspool, shall not be abated, prevented and removed; after
which the Board of Commissioners in its discretion shall order such
nuisance to be abated and removed and prevented within 30 days after
the date of service of such notice or such other reasonable time as
they may require.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to throw
out, deposit, or bury within the city limits any excretions from the
human body, solid or liquid, or to deposit any such substance in any
manner other than into properly sewered water closet or a properly
constructed sanitary privy as described herein.
A sanitary privy is one so built, rebuilt or constructed that
the excretions deposited therein will not fall upon the ground, but
into some water tight receptacle, the contents of which shall not
be accessible to fowls or animals. The box parts of the privies shall
be constructed of sound lumber or other substantial materials, all
joints being made tight. The seat of such privy shall be constructed
with a self-falling hinged lid in such manner as to darken the box
below and prevent the passage of flies or fowls and the box shall
be enclosed as to be kept in the dark by placing a hinged door or
shutter suspended from the outer wall in such manner as to close the
receptacle from flies, fowls or animals and to be conveniently raised
and lowered for emptying the receptacles and cleansing the premises.
The privy shall be supplied at all times with plenty of lime, concentrated
lye or coppers, or other disinfecting chemical as may be sanctioned
by the Health Officer for disinfecting purposes and the prevention
of odors. Any and all privies not complying with all these provisions
are hereby declared to be nuisances.
The Health Officer shall prescribe by regulation the proper
size and method of construction of privies and other details as will
render effective the provisions of the above section.
All sanitary privies shall be kept in a cleanly condition at
all times, and so used that all excrete deposited, shall fall into
the receptacle provided. Such receptacle shall be used only for the
purpose of toilet, and no wash water, garbage, or other refuse matter
than human excreta shall be deposited therein.
No privy receptacle shall be permitted to become filled to overflowing.
If emptying shall become necessary oftener than is provided by the
ordinance of the city or rules of the Health Officer, it shall be
the duty of the user or owner to notify the scavenger who shall clean
same.
The Health Officer or his authorized representative shall inspect
all privies in the city at such times as he shall deem necessary and
proper, and is hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any and
all premises in the discharge of his duties.
It shall be an offense for the owner of any building erected
for residential purposes or for persons to live, sleep, room, board,
or work in habitually or continuously and in the doing of which it
is necessary to have water and toilet service, to refuse or fail to
connect the building to the city sewerage and water system, when such
building is situated in any district already or hereafter established
and when the city shall have provided that no offense shall be committed
under this section, until the city has provided necessary connection
at the curb line and given 30 days' notice thereafter in which
time such sewerage and water connection may be established. Provided,
that each day after the first offense is committed and each day thereafter
in which such person fails or refuses to make the connection, shall
be a separate offense and punished accordingly.
It shall be unlawful and an offense to use a toilet in public
places other than in the natural and intended manner.
