Sanitary Code (PDF) - Erie County

pipe, well, or spring used as a source of water supply.
4. Privies, one hundred (100) feet to two hundred (200) feet from the source
of a water supply shall be provided with water-tight vaults or receptacles,
the contents of which shall be removed and disposed of in a sanitary
manner.
Section 2.
Exposure of Sewage.
(a)
No person either as owner, lessee, or tenant of any property, dwelling, building or
place, shall construct or maintain and/or operate any privy, cesspool, sewage
disposal system, pipe or drain so as to expose or discharge the sewage contents
or other offensive material or matter there from to the atmosphere, or on the
surface of the ground, nor so as to endanger any source of supply of drinking
water, nor as to discharge into a water course or body of water unless a permit
for such discharge shall have been issued therefore by the appropriate State
officer or his duly authorized designee and such discharge shall be made in
accordance with the requirements thereof.
(b)
No facilities for the private disposal of sewage shall be constructed under or
within any building or structure and no building or structure shall be erected on
an area within which private sewage disposal facilities are in use unless special
permission has been obtained therefore from the Department of Health.
(c)
No person shall permit the disposal of any substance into any plumbing line,
sewer, privy, or separate sewage disposal system other than that which said
facility is designed or is intended to receive.