New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 118 - Greene County › Section 118.3 - Village of Coxsackie

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
L. 1893, ch. 661
(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, 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 Coxsackie.
(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 50 and 250 feet, horizontal measurement, from
				  the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or 50 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 absolutely watertight condition and which will 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 can not 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 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 marks as shall be considered safe and proper by
				  the State Board of Health.