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Sec. 492(5). Sewers — drainage of injurious matter
prohibited.

No person shall be permitted to discharge into the main or lateral
sewers, any household sewer or drain through which substances
are discharged, any cinders, vegetables, fruit, fruit peelings,
ashes, rags, cotton, hair, or any refuse matter or garbage or
anything other than the ordinary discharges of water closets, liquid
house slops and closet paper. No rain water from the roofs
of houses, surface water or drainage from the yard shall be permitted
to flow into the sewer.