New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 149 - Tioga County › Section 149.1 - Village of Waverly

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
L. 1893, ch. 661; L. 1906, ch. 582
(a)
[Human excreta.]
(1) No privy or place for the deposit or
				  storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 50
				  feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any
				  reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind, the water of which
				  when running flows eventually into a reservoir of the Waverly public water
				  supply.
(2) No privy, vault, pit or
				  cesspool or nontransportable receptacle of any kind for the reception or
				  storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 250
				  feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any
				  reservoir or within 150 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or
				  precipitous bank of any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as
				  aforesaid.
(3) Every privy or place
				  for the deposit of human excreta which is constructed, located or maintained
				  between the aforesaid limits of 50 and 250 feet, horizontal measurement, of the
				  high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or 50 and 150 feet,
				  horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any
				  spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as aforesaid, and from which the said
				  excreta is not at once removed automatically by means of suitable watertight
				  pipes or conduits to some place of disposal beyond the maximum aforesaid limits
				  shall be arranged in such manner that all said excreta shall be received and
				  temporarily retained in suitable vessels or receptacles which shall at all
				  times be maintained in an absolutely watertight condition and which will admit
				  of convenient removal to some place of ultimate disposal beyond the said
				  maximum limits.
(4) The excreta
				  collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles shall be removed and the
				  receptacles cleansed and deodorized as often as is necessary to keep the
				  receptacles in proper sanitary condition and to prevent an overflow of the
				  excreta upon the soil or floor of said privy.
(5) The excreta so collected shall be removed
				  so as to cause the least nuisance possible and shall be so disposed of that
				  they cannot be washed either over the surface or through the subsoil into any
				  reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind as aforesaid and
				  shall be so placed as not to cause an offensive nuisance.
(6) Whenever it shall be found that, owing to
				  the porous character of the soil, the height and flow of surface and subsoil
				  waters, the steepness of the slopes or other special conditions of the
				  locality, the excremental matter from any privy, cesspool or other receptacle
				  for human excreta may be washed over the surface or through the subsoil into a
				  reservoir or any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse aforesaid, without having
				  been thereby, in the judgment of the State Department of Health, sufficiently
				  purified, then the said privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excreta
				  shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such greater
				  distance from said high-water mark as shall be considered safe and proper by
				  the said Department of Health.