Permit required to maintain privy

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Environmental and Animal Control and Protection
4. Privies
5. Permit required to maintain privy

No person shall, in the District of Columbia, erect or maintain a privy, or other means or system for the disposal of human excreta, except by means of waterclosets connected with a sewer and watermain, without having secured from the Director of the Department of Human Services a permit so to do.

(Apr. 22, 1940, 54 Stat. 155, ch. 131, § 3; Aug. 1, 1950, 64 Stat. 393, ch. 513, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 6-602.

1973 Ed., § 6-702.

Editor's Notes

Office of Director of Public Health abolished: See Historical and Statutory Notes following § 7-101.

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