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Session Laws, 1941
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1241

the County Board of Health. No person shall fill in the open
trenches or the excavation for any underground portion of
an excreta disposal plant nor shall render an excreta disposal
plant fit for usage without inspection of and written ap-
proval of the excavated plant by the Health Officer.

1029F. Any excreta disposal plant, the contents of which
are accessible to flies, animals or surface drainage or are en-
dangering a water supply or are a detriment to health in
any other way, or earth pit privy, the contents of which
are less than one foot below the lower surface of the floor,
shall constitute an excreta disposal nuisance. The Health
Officer shall make inspection of existing excreta disposal
plants. If an excreta disposal nuisance is found to exist
on a property within reach of a public sewer, the Health
Officer shall notify the owner or occupant of the premises to
connect said premises to the public sewer within a specified
reasonable time and to abandon the excreta disposal plant on
said property and leave it in such a way that it cannot again
be used or become injurious to health. If any excreta disposal
nuisance consisting of an unsanitary outside toilet connected
to the public sewer is found to exist, the Health Officer shall
notify the owner or occupant of the premises to repair, clean,
reconstruct or otherwise recondition the said outside toilet
so that it is no longer a detriment to health. If an excreta
disposal nuisance is. found to exist on a property which is
out of reach of the public sewer, the Health Officer shall notify
the owner or occupant of the property to reconstruct or re-
place the existing excreta disposal plant or plants within a
specified reasonable time under Health Officer permit as here-
tofore prescribed. No owner or occupant shall maintain an
excreta disposal nuisance after the time limit aforesaid
specified by the County Health Officer. If an excreta disposal
nuisance is found to exist which consists of unsanitary sur-
face or pit privy, the Health Officer may, in addition to notices
served in other ways, post a notice on the privy building.

1029G. If an excreta disposal nuisance is found to exist
on a property which is not occupied, the Health Officer may,
in addition to notices sent in other ways, post appropriate
notice on the property to the effect that no person shall occupy
the property until the property has been connected to the
public sewer or until the excreta disposal plant has been re-
constructed or replaced. No person shall remove or deface
the aforesaid notice of an excreta disposal nuisance on un-
occupied property nor shall any person occupy the property
without permission of the Health Officer or until the prop-
erty hag been connected to the public sewer or until the excreta

 

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