§ 5-3. Community-type sewage system connections.

(a)

Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms are hereby defined:

Camp means any structure used temporarily or occasionally as a dwelling; not used as a residence.

Community-type sewage system means any sewage system, either publicly or privately owned, usually consisting of a collection system, pumping facility, and a means of final treatment and disposal.

Residence means any structure occupied customarily or most of the time as a dwelling.

Cross reference— Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.

(b)

Prohibited discharges. No person shall discharge, or allow to be discharged, the contents or effluent from any water closet, sink, lavatory, bathtub, shower drain, kitchen fixture, laundry fixtures, vault, privy, leaching pit, chemical toilet, or septic tank, directly or indirectly, into any street, gutter, ditch, watercourse, body of water, or onto the surface of the ground.

(c)

Installation and connection of plumbing fixtures. The owners of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the parish and where there is now located a public sanitary sewer, are hereby required, at the owners' expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein and to connect such facilities, including bath, laundry, kitchen, and other plumbing fixtures directly with the proper community-type sewer, in accordance with the provisions of this section, within 30 days after the date of official notice to do so, provided that the property is:

(1)

Within 300 feet of a sewer main or lateral; or

(2)

Such that the area or property in question is surrounded on at least three sides by already sewered tracts, regardless of whether or not the 300 feet maximum spacing applies, shall be connected therewith, provided that such sewer main or lateral is adequate to serve such premises, and provided the property owner is legally entitled to make such a connection.

(d)

Alternative method of disposal. Should connection to the community-type sewage system not be available, the property owner shall supply a currently approved method of sewage disposal in accordance with the state sanitary code, chapter 13, and approved by the parish health unit.

(e)

Penalty for violation of section. Whosoever shall violate this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $500.00 or be imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both.

(Code 1969, § 5-7)