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Editor’s note–See corresponding note located in Appendix A of this code.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
Chemical toilet.
A toilet structure equipped with a watertight, impervious container which reserves waste discharged through a hopper, seat, urinal, or similar device and into which container disinfecting and deodorizing chemicals are placed.
Water-flush toilet.
A toilet meeting the requirements of the city plumbing ordinance for material and workmanship installed for the period of construction or assembly and connected with the sanitary sewer or an approved septic tank.
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)
(a) 
No person shall initiate or proceed with a construction, erection, alteration, repair, or razing project without first providing an adequate number of suitable sanitary toilet facilities for the use of employees working on the project, if such project has three (3) or more employees on the job at any time. Such toilet facilities shall be of the water-flushed or chemical type, located on or within two hundred (200) feet of the site of the project.
(b) 
The use of off-site toilet facilities is permitted providing the holder of the building permit has secured written permission for such use from the owner of the toilets and providing further that employees on the project are permitted free and reasonable use of the facilities during working hours.
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)
At any public gathering for any commercial, religious, or public event where adequate toilet facilities are not provided on the immediate premises, suitable approved temporary sanitary toilet facilities of the water-flushed or chemical type, adequate for the estimated attendance, shall be located within two hundred (200) feet of such gathering. One toilet for each fifty persons present (segregated according to gender) shall be provided.
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)
(a) 
No chemical toilet shall be installed within twenty (20) feet of occupied premises nor within ten (10) feet of a public thoroughfare or sidewalk, unless authorized by the health officer. Toilet facilities shall be of sanitary construction and shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition by their owner. Toilet paper shall be available at all times.
(b) 
In chemical toilets, seats shall be installed to ensure that wastes drop unimpeded into a receiving tank. The receiving tank shall be made of impervious, corrosion-resistant material with an easily accessible opening for cleaning. The tank and bowl shall be ventilated by means of a screened pipe at least four (4) inches in diameter, which shall extend to outside air.
(c) 
The receiving tank shall be charged with an adequate amount of sanitizing and deodorizing chemical, properly diluted with water, and be capable of reducing and liquefying wastes and preventing offensive odors. The chemical shall be renewed or the contents of the tank removed as often as necessary to maintain a sanitary condition. All surfaces which come into contact with human skin shall be cleaned and sanitized as often as necessary to maintain a sanitary condition.
(d) 
Every chemical toilet structure shall have painted thereon in clear letters the name and telephone number of the owners.
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)
Any person found to be violating any provision of this article shall be served by the health official with written notice stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit for the satisfactory correction thereof. Any person failing to correct such violation within the time specified in the written notice, or within such extended period of time as may be granted by the health official, shall be deemed to be maintaining a public nuisance, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)
Persons aggrieved by an action or decision of the health official may appeal such action or decision to the permit and license appeal board.
(Ordinance 2011-O0018, sec. 24, adopted 2/24/2011)