(a) No owner of a dwelling or building shall maintain any pit, privy, privy vault, cesspool or nightsoil can for the purpose of receiving organic wastes wherever connection can be made to the public sewer system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or rules and regulations issued under this chapter.
(b) The owner of any building occupied for habitation, commercial purposes or as a place of private or public assembly, shall, within 12 months after notification by the Waste Management Authority and at such owner's expense, install such water closets, lavatories, sinks and bathtubs as may be required by rules and regulations issued under this chapter and a connecting line between any such fixture or existing sanitary fixtures located in the said building and the public sewer system.