New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 108 - Clinton County › Villages › Section 108.2 - Village of Plattsburgh

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
L. 1893, ch. 661; L. 1899, ch. 251
(a)
[Human excreta.]
(1) No privy or place for the deposit or
					 storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 75
					 feet, horizontal measurement, from the high-water mark or precipitous bank of
					 any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind the water in
					 which when running flows eventually into a reservoir of the public water supply
					 of the village of Plattsburgh, New York.
(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, from the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or
					 within 130 feet, horizontal measurement, from 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 75 and 250 feet, horizontal measurement, from
					 the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or 75 and 130 feet,
					 horizontal measurement, from 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 proper place of disposal beyond the maximum aforesaid
					 limit 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 absolute watertight condition and which shall admit
					 of convenient removal to some place of ultimate disposal beyond the said
					 maximum limit.
(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 possible nuisance 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 slope 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 Board 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 State Board
					 of Health.