gcls_citycode_1894_103

Ordinances of the City of Greenville. 93

Overflows from Fixtures.

SEC. 25. Overflows from fixtures must in each case be con-
nected on the inlet side of th trap.

Water Closets.

SEC. 26. Water closets must be of an approved pattern
(pan closets being absolutely prohibited) and should be
supplied from a special tank placed over them, in which
place the waste or overflow from the tank must dis-
charge into the open air of the basin of the closet and
not into the soil pipe directly. Direct service of the
water closet is prohibited. All interior water closet
compartments should be ventilated into air shafts where
possible.

Strainers.

SEC. 27. Exit pipes to all fixtures, except water closets,
should be furnished with suitable permanently attached
strainers.

SEC. 28. No person shall place, or suffer to be placed, any
bulky substance in any sewer opening or in the house
connections or private drains connecting with any pub-
lic main or lateral sewer, or any substance having a
tendency to obstruct the free flowage of said sewers or
to damage damage them in any way.

Penalty.

SEC. 29. Any person violating any of these rules and reg-
ulations shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any
sum not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars,
or imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty days
or both, such fine and impresonment at the discrection
of the court.

Done and ratified in council assembled, the first day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
[L.S.] hundred and ninety-two, and in the one hundred
and sixteenth year of the sovereignty and indepen-
dence of the United States of America.
W. W. GILREATH, Mayor.

F. J. BOSTICK, Clerk.