§ 41-79. Health rules and regulations.

(a)

All rules and regulations of the state and county boards of health, and the state commissioner of health, and the city-county department of health respectively, now in force, are hereby extended over, and shall apply and have full force and effect within the water district. All rules and regulations that may lawfully be made in the future shall extend over and have the same effect within the water district as within the limits of the city.

(b)

The following rules and regulations of the state commissioner of health shall be in force within the Stillwater Water District:

(1)

No human excrement, or compost containing human excrement, or content of any privy, cesspool, sewer, or other receptacle for the reception or storage of human excrement, shall be deposited or discharged within the Stillwater Water District or upon or into the ground at a place from which any such excrement, compost, or contents, or particles thereof may flow or be washed or carried into any watercourse.

(2)

No house slops, sink wastes, or water which has been used for washing or cooking, or other polluted water, shall be discharged into the reservoir, or into any watercourse within the Stillwater Water District; no house slops, sink waste, or water that has been used for washing or cooking, or other polluted water, shall be discharged into or upon the ground in the Stillwater Water District within 660 feet of the high water line of the city reservoir or of any watercourse.

(3)

No garbage, manure, or putrescible matter whatsoever shall be put into the city reservoir or into any watercourse. No garbage, manure, or putrescible matter whatsoever shall be put upon the ground in the Stillwater Water District within 660 feet of the high water line of any watercourse or within any such greater distance as may from time to time be established either by the state health department or by the city.

(4)

No stable, pigsty, henhouse, barnyard, hog yard, hitching or standing place for horses, cattle, or animals, or other place where animal manure is deposited or accumulates, shall be located, constructed, or maintained in the Stillwater Water District any part of which is within 660 feet of the high water line of the city reservoir or of the high water line of any watercourse.

(5)

No refuse, industrial waste, or other waste products or polluting liquids, or other substance of a nature poisonous or injurious, either to human beings or animals, or of any such nature as would impart an objectionable taste or odor to any water into which it may be discharged, and no putrescible matter whatsoever, shall be discharged, directly or indirectly, into or at any place from which it may flow or be washed or carried into the city reservoir or into any watercourse.

(6)

No system of sewer or other works for the collection, conveyance, disposal, or purification of domestic or manufacturing sewage wastes or drainage of any other putrescible matter whatsoever shall, except in accordance with plans first approved in writing by the state department of health, be constructed or maintained at any place within the Stillwater Water District. No private or separate sewer shall be constructed or maintained in the Stillwater Water District having an outlet upon or into the ground within 330 feet of the high water line of the city reservoir or of the high water line of any watercourse.

(7)

No gasoline drips or waste oil drips, or drain pipe drips shall be allowed to be placed or used within the Stillwater Water District, and any and all drips that may be located within the water district shall be removed or placed in a condition that they do not drain within the water district.

(8)

No owner or occupant of land within the Stillwater Water District shall permit the carcass or any part of any dead animal to remain on land under his control within the water district.

(Code 1966, §§ 18-39, 18-46; Code 1982, § 30-20; Ord. No. 2268, § 9, 10-27-1986)