§ 7.16.200. Toilet and privy specifications.

At least one privy, or water closet or chemical type toilet must be provided at every house court or tent camp space for each sex for every ten apartments, tents, camp cars, trailers or other habitations. No house court habitation, or habitation in a tent camp space, shall be at a greater distance than two hundred feet from both men's and women's toilets. The locations of all toilets shall be plainly indicated by proper signs. The interior of all toilet buildings shall be kept clean and properly lighted and ventilated and from sunset to sunrise a proper light shall be kept burning in all public toilet buildings in house courts and tent camp spaces.

Every privy now existing, or hereafter erected, in a house court or tent camp space shall be constructed or reconstructed in a substantial manner of durable materials; and all cracks shall be effectively battened and all ventilating openings covered with wire screening not larger than 16 mesh. Every such structure shall be equipped with a full sized door, which shall be so equipped with a spring or similar device, or so hung, that it will close tight of its own accord when not in use. Hinged covers shall be placed over all seat holes and so installed that they will close tight over the seat holes of their own accord when not in use.

Pits for such privies shall be of adequate depth and the structures shall be placed over the same in such a manner as to prevent the ingress and egress of flies. All privy pits shall be provided with ventilator openings directly into the pit and such openings shall be effectively screened with wire screening not larger than 16 mesh. When the excreta in any privy comes within one foot of the surface the pit shall be filled with earth.

All nonconforming privies existing at the time of the passage of the ordinance codified herein which are not reconstructed to meet the requirements hereinbefore set forth shall by the owners be demolished and the pits shall be properly disinfected and filled with earth.

No privy shall be set within fifty feet of any human habitation or any place where food or drink for human consumption is located in a house court or tent camp space.

No privy shall be placed in any position where it can contaminate any water supply or source of supply used for human consumption.

(Ord. 176 § 21, 1939).