Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 19 - Public Health and Safety
13-B
Chapter II - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Swimming Pools and Bathing Places
Section 19-13-B44 - Sanitation of trailer coaches
Current through September 9, 2024
"Trailer coach" is defined as any of the various types of vehicles with motor power or designed to be towed with an automobile and adapted to human habitation either for the purpose of sleeping or eating or preparation of meals or both or designed or adapted to the use of an office or for the purpose of carrying on business.
(a) All toilets in trailer coaches shall be provided with fly-tight, leak-proof receptacles for containing excrement. Toilet vents shall be screened. Trailer coaches equipped with flush toilets shall be provided with suitable underneath holding tanks of adequate capacity for storage of trailer discharges between emptying.
(b) No liquid wastes, garbage, refuse matter or other waste material from any trailer coach shall be deposited on or within the limits of public highways.
(c) No trailer coach shall be parked on land within two hundred fifty feet of, and draining toward, any source of public drinking water supply.
(d) Cleansing of receptacles for wastes any excreta from trailer coaches by dipping or rinsing in the water of any lake, pond or stream is prohibited.
(e) No liquid wastes or excreta from any trailer coach shall be disposed of other than by emptying into a public or camp sewerage system, a septic or chemical tank system or a cesspool, provided, in isolated localities remote from camps or habitations, such wastes may be disposed of by burying in the soil with an earth covering of not less than six inches. No wastes shall be thus disposed of at a point less than two hundred and fifty feet of, and draining toward, any source of public drinking water supply, nor within fifty feet from the banks of any lake, pond, stream or watercourse not a source of public drinking supply, nor within fifty feet from any highway gutter.
