§ 53.003. SANITARY FACILITIES.  


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  • (A) Where a sanitary or combined sewer is not located in any street or alley adjacent to, or within 100 feet, of any lot or parcel of land on which is located an inhabited dwelling, business house, boarding house, lodging house, eating place, tenement, shop, factory, public hall, place of amusement or any other building in the town, a water-flush toilet or a sanitary privy of the type of construction approved by the State Board of Health shall be provided by the owner or agent of the premises. Where a water-flush system of excreta disposal is installed or is in use, which is not connected to the public sewer system, there shall be installed a private disposal plant consisting of a septic tank effluent.
    (B) The sanitary privy, water-flush toilet and private disposal plant shall be constructed and maintained in an approved manner described and illustrated in Bulletin Nos. 8 and 11 of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the Indiana State Board of Health, copies of which are herewith incorporated as a part of this section.
    (`93 Code, § 9-92)