The city health officer is empowered and it shall be his duty to prohibit the use of any privy vault or cesspool now existing upon any premises in the city, whenever the use and maintenance thereof is detrimental or dangerous to life and health; to order any privy vault or cesspool to be disinfected and filled with fresh earth; and to order the plumbing installed in any building or structure to be connected with and drained into a public sewer if such connection can be made within the distance provided by law, or into an improved septic tank complying with the city plumbing code. (Ord. 1037 § 3, 1949)