No person shall construct or repair any privy
or septic tank upon any property without first obtaining from the
Board of Health or Plumbing Inspector a permit to so construct the
same.
No person shall clean or empty any privy vault
or septic tank without first obtaining from the Board or Plumbing
Inspector a permit to do so.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of cleaning or emptying privy vaults or septic tanks
shall use in such instances a suitable vehicle properly provided with
watertight, completely closed tanks or boxes designed to prevent leakage
onto the streets or highways within the Borough and further designed
to prevent the escape of offensive odors into the atmosphere.
All construction undertaken under any permit
under this article shall fully comply with every provision of this
article affecting the same.
No cesspool shall hereafter be constructed upon
property, nor shall any cesspool now in existence be maintained, if
the maintenance thereof shall be detrimental to the public health.
No person shall maintain, use or permit to be
used any receptacle for human excrement unless such receptacle is
so constructed and maintained that flies cannot gain access to the
excremental matter contained therein and unless such excremental matter
shall, at all times, be prevented from flowing over upon the surface
of the ground. Every receptacle for human excrement located within
100 feet of any stream, the waters of which are used for drinking
or domestic purposes, shall be provided with a watertight vault.
Whenever any premises contains a septic tank,
cesspool or privy which is abandoned or which the Board determines
is in a dangerous condition, the same shall, upon notification to
the owner thereof, be promptly pumped out and filled with clean earth
by the owner or agent at the owner's expense.