It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to keep, maintain or use a dry well or other wells or privy vaults into which sewerage matter is discharged or received in any city, town or village having a population of not less than five hundred, whether incorporated or unincorporated, when such city, town or village has no public general supply of water for personal and domestic uses. Any person who now has or maintains any such well for the discharge or reception of sewerage matter shall, upon fifteen days' notice from any magistrate that complaint thereof has been made, close up such well and discontinue its use entirely. Any person found guilty of violating this section shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not exceeding thirty days. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-568; 1952 Code Section 16-568; 1942 Code Section 1488; 1932 Code Section 1488; Cr. C. '22 Section 432; Cr. C. '12 Section 442; 1908 (25) 1117; 1910 (26) 630.
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