San Marcos Municipal Code Art. VI Miscellaneous Provisions

No person shall install or permit to be installed an interconnection between a drinking water supply and any equipment or connection of any kind, class, or description which may contain water or any liquid or substance unfit for human or domestic consumption. The Director shall make or cause to be made inspections to determine if such conditions exist, and if such interconnections are discovered the Director shall require the purveyor of water to discontinue water service unless the condition is abated within a reasonable period of time fixed by the Director. No device shall be sold in the City which provides such an interconnection as a means of operation unless the water supply is adequate.

No privy, vault, privy, cesspool, or water closet shall be allowed by the owner or other person in charge of the premises upon which the same may be situated to become foul or offensive; and when in the opinion of the Director any such privy, vault or closet or cesspool shall need cleaning or disinfecting, it shall be the duty of said Director to notify such owner or other person having control to abate the

same by such disinfecting or cleaning as in the judgement of said Director may be necessary, or in the case of a defective or offensive cesspool the owner, if deemed necessary by the Director, shall connect the premises to an available public sewer or construct a new sewage disposal system that meets the requirements of this chapter.