(A) Safeguarding of excavations. All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-6)
(B) General design and construction standards for building sewers. The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply. Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by the building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-7)
(C) Use of independent building sewers required; exceptions. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-8)
(D) Requirements for reuse of old sewers . Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Inspector, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-9)
(E) Inspection prior to connection; supervision of connection; connection specifications. The applicant for the sewer connection permit shall notify the Inspector when the building sewer or other drain is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer or storm drain. All connections made with any sewer of the town shall be made under the direct supervision of the Inspector or his or her representative, and the connections shall be made in the manner the Inspector shall designate and in no other manner. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before installation. In the case of a connection to a public sanitary or combined sewer, the connection shall be performed by employees or agents of the town. No backfilling or other concealment of the building sewer system or other drain may be performed until the inspection required under this section has been performed and all work approved by the Inspector or representative.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-10) (Ord. 7, passed 1-2-39; Am. Ord. 86-C2, passed 7-15-86)
(F) Restoration of public property after completion. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the town.
(`86 Code, § 2-4-11)
(Ord. 6-9-70-3, passed - -; Am. Ord. 86-C2, passed 7-15-86) Penalty, see § 10.99