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Every person, firm or corporation shall discharge all sewage in the following manner in Snohomish county:

(1) When water is or becomes available under pressure, every dwelling, unit, mobile home and every other establishment or premises required to provide toilet facilities are each required to construct a sanitary drainage system, and every plumbing fixture and every sanitary drainage system not connected to a public sewer or not required by law to be connected to a public sewer, shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system. When a public sewer is at all accessible, connections must be made to the public sewage system.

(2) Pit privies are permitted:

(a) When water is not available under pressure; or

(b) During period of construction; or

(c) Any other condition of a temporary nature that is approved by the health authority having jurisdiction, provided that when water under pressure becomes available, all pit privies shall be concurrently replaced by a private sewage disposal system or public sewer.

(3) Except where multiple systems are permitted by the health authority having jurisdiction, all sewage disposal systems shall be located upon the same lot as the buildings they are designed to serve unless an easement therefor upon abutting property is recorded and such location is approved by the health authority. (Amended by Res. adopted July 20, 1970; Amended by Ord. 03-104, Sept. 10, 2003, Eff date Oct. 6, 2003; Amended by Res. 04-023, Sept. 1, 2004, Eff date Sept. 1, 2004).