HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 04.12.1943 - Toilets/`z �_ e
kN ORDINANCE OF TIE CITY OF GEORGETOWNt TMS, PROHIBITING
THE OPTING, h,AINTAINING AND OPERATING OF LNY TOILET, C014 -
MODE, SI14-K OR BATH THAT IS FLUSHED WITH M ER, UNLESS SUCH
TOILET, COLMODE, SINK OR BxTH BE CONNECTED WITH AND FLUSHED
INTO A ; SEWER LINE OF THE SAID CITY, OR BE CONNECTED PITH
,SND FLUSHED INTO A SEPTIC, RESERVOIR OR TANK, CONSTRUCTED
AND LUINTAINED IN ACCORDANCE r7'ITH THE RULES PROVIDES BY THE
DEPARMMINT OF 11EALTH OF THF, STATE OF TE::AS, AND CREATING AN
MIM' RGENC Y.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GEORGETOUN, TEXAS, that it shall be unlawful for any person
to, within the limits of this City, own, maintain or use any
toilet, commode, sink or bath that is flushed with water,
unless such toilet, commode, sink or bath be connected
with and flushed into a sewer line of the said City, or be
connected with and flushed into a septic, reservoir or
tank, which such septic, reservoir or tank shall have been
constructed and is maintained in accordance with the ap-
proved method provided for in the rules of the Department
of Health of the State of Texas for such septics, tanks
or reservoirs.
That any person violating any provision of this
ordinance shall, on conviction, be fined any sum not less
than one dollar, nor more than one hundred dollars, and
that each day's violation hereof shall constitute a sepa-
rate offense.
That when it shall come to the knowledge of the
said City that any such toilet, commode, sink or bath,
it being operated in violation of the provisions of this
ORdinance, and that such toilet, commode, sink or bath,
is being supplied with or flushed from water from the
City water system, it shall be the duty of the said City
and of the Officers and agents thereof to discontinue
the furnishing or supplying of water to any such person
so violating this ordinance so long as any such violation
shall continue.
That the fact that there is no ordinance of this
City adequately covering the matters above prohibited
creates an emergency and public necessity that the rules
be suspended with reference to the reading of ordinance
at separate meetings and that this ordinance be at once
passed and that it take effect from and after the passage
and publication hereof.
PASSED and APPROVED, un this the 12th day of April,
A. A. 1943.
Mayor of the City of Georgetown.
ATTEST :
City Secretary of the City of
Georgetown.
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