There is created a city health department administered by a city health officer, who shall be a duly and regularly registered and practicing physician of medicine, residing in the territorial limits of the city.
(Ordinance 102, sec. 1, adopted 5/22/41; 1972 Code, sec. 14-1)
(a) 
Connection required.
Each residence or building of any type within the city where people reside or congregate any part of the day or night or are regularly employed any part of the day or night located within two hundred fifty (250) feet of any sewer main or lateral shall have at least one water closet connected with the city sewer system.
(b) 
Outside toilets, privies and cesspools; buildings without sewage facilities.
The maintenance of an outside toilet, privy or cesspool within the city is declared to be a nuisance dangerous to the public health, and each residence or building within the city served by such facility or each residence or building within the city having no sewage facilities of any type shall within thirty (30) days after due notice comply with subsection (a) of this section.
(c) 
Septic tanks.
The maintenance of a septic tank within the city is declared to be a nuisance dangerous to the public health, and each residence or building within the city limits served by such facility shall within one year after due notice comply with subsection (a) of this section.
(Ordinance 445, secs. 1–3, adopted 1/11/60; 1972 Code, secs. 14-2–14-4)
(a) 
Cesspools prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, repair or use any cesspool within the city.
(b) 
Use of septic tanks.
In cases where it is impossible to connect with the city sanitary sewer system, or where the proximity of such premises is not such as to require the connection with the city sanitary sewer system, an approved septic tank, to be approved by the building inspector, may be installed after such approval, and it shall be unlawful to install any septic tank not so approved.
(c) 
Location of septic tank.
No septic tank shall be constructed so as to be within twenty (20) feet of any residence or building except by special permission of the city health officer, which shall be in writing, and a copy of which shall be filed in the office of the city health officer. In no instance shall any septic tank be constructed where it, or any part of it, shall be under any such building or residence.
(Ordinance 55 adopted 11/14/38; 1972 Code, secs. 14-5–14-7)