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Regarding the original post, I can understand outlawing of outhouses in some areas.

1 Population density may preclude it.

2. Soil and rock and ground conditions may make it ill-advised. For instance, when I lived in NW Arkansas, I read up on ground water contamination. The soil was such that it would not hold on to and allow to mellow the effluvia. And the aquifer was such that the nasty poo microbes would not break down. Folks with outhouses were, in effect, drinking their own raw sewage from their wells. And their neighbors who went to the trouble of a working septic system got to imbibe the same polluted water from ground wells. Not cool.

3. County level is the best place to manage this. The lowest level of gov't in a rural area, who ought to know local conditions and if they are outhouse-friendly.