Polk City |
Code of Ordinances |
Part II. CODE OF ORDINANCES |
Chapter 74. UTILITIES |
Article II. SEWER |
Division 1. GENERALLY |
§ 74-36. Sanitary requirements.
Each residence and building within the city in which human beings reside, are employed or congregated, shall be required to have a sanitary method of disposing of human excrement, namely either a connection with the city's wastewater system or an approved type of septic tank. A septic tank will be used only if the boundary line of a parcel or lot of property is not adjacent to an easement or public right-of-way in which a city sewer line exists.
(Ord. No. 97-5, § 16, 12-18-1997; Ord. No. 2011-1276, § 2, 6-13-2011)
State law reference
State regulation of on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems, F.S. § 381.0065.