For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
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.
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)
