No privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall be maintained which permits flies to gain access to the excrement contained therein or permits the escape of any excremental matter to the surface of the ground.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Gloucester 6-18-1935. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited any human excrement in a privy, cesspool or other receptacle maintained in violation of § 85-1.
No privy shall be maintained upon any property having a connection with a sewer.
No privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall be installed or reconstructed on any property along the line of any sewer constructed for carrying off sewage.
[Amended 5-20-1970 by Ord. No. 392]
No privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall be constructed, reconstructed, erected or relocated unless a permit therefor shall have been first obtained from the Secretary of the Board of Health. The applicant for such permit shall furnish such information of the details of construction and location as will show intended compliance with this chapter, and the Secretary may withhold issue of such permit until satisfactory information is furnished and an inspection of the premises made. In reaching a decision with regard to approval or disapproval of location in connection with the issue of such permits, the Secretary shall take into account the location of all wells upon the property of the applicant and those adjacent thereto. A fee of $10 shall accompany each application for a permit under this section.
All privies shall have a watertight excrement container or an underground vault, the sides of which shall be of masonry, concrete, wood or other suitable material to prevent caving in of earth, ingress of surface water and escape of excremental matter to the surface of the ground, and fit with and support the seat box. No privy vault shall be constructed after the enactment of this chapter with a wooden cover or enclosure which is exposed to the weather.
[Amended 7-13-1955]
All cesspools shall be at least five feet in diameter and 15 feet in depth, except when otherwise permitted because of conditions existing at the site of installation making such dimensions not practical. The walls of cesspools shall be of brick or cement or tile blocks, laid up dry, to within two feet of the ground level, and from that point to the top, laid up with cement mortar and arched over to a manhole two feet in diameter. There shall be a closely fitting stone, concrete or iron manhole cover.
No cesspool shall have an overflow connection unless such overflow connects with buried open-joint tile drains, installed to increase the seepage area. The location of such buried tile shall be subject to the same restrictions as cesspools.
All privy vaults, cesspools or other receptacles for human excrement shall be of watertight construction when located within 50 feet of any stream, lake or other body of water or within 20 feet of the underground portion of any building.
No privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement shall be located less than 15 feet from any party line unless written permission of the owner of the adjoining property is filed with the Secretary of the Board of Health, nor less than 20 feet from any building unless conditions make such minimum distance impossible or impractical, nor less than 10 feet from any public thoroughfare.
The contents of privy vaults and watertight excrement receptacles shall be removed whenever such contents come within six inches of the ground level or top.
Excremental matter removed from privies and cesspools shall be disposed of in such manner and place as will not give rise to an odorous nuisance or jeopardize the purity of any surface or well water, and shall be immediately covered with earth.
No person shall engage in the business of cleaning privies and cesspools unless a permit shall have been first obtained from the Secretary of the Board of Health. The applicant for such permit shall have proper equipment for the removal and transportation of fluids containing human excremental matter and have facilities for its disposal in compliance with this chapter before such permit is issued. Such permits may be revoked for cause.
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Editor's Note: As of March 12, 1958, a resolution adopted by the Board of Health of Gloucester Township, County of Camden, State of New Jersey, the following fees were adopted: cesspool and septic tank cleaning license, $10 each year; permits for cleaning, $1; permits for septic tank and cesspool construction and/or erecting, $10 each. Each new house constructed, or old house, building, garage, etc., relocated in a nonsewer district, must install a septic tank and a dry well. Violators subject to penalty of law.
No more than one dwelling or premises shall be connected to one cesspool.
[Amended 5-20-1970 by Ord. No. 392]
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, in the discretion of a court of competent jurisdiction.