(a) Permit Required; Application; Fee. No building sewer shall be constructed to connect with a public sewer, nor shall any connection be made to a public sewer, in the City, until a written permit therefor is first obtained by the person employed to perform the work. An application for such a permit shall be signed by the owner, agent or lessee of the property for which the connection is to be made and must describe the sewer to be connected. The application shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) effective January 1, 2023.
(b) Authorization and Registration Required. No building sewer shall be constructed or any connection made to a public sewer by any person who has not been authorized and licensed to perform such work by the City.
(c) Specifications and Requirements. The permit required by subsection (a) hereof, shall specify the permissible use of the building sewer and connection and such specification shall be governed by the following requirements:
(1) Sewage, including wastes from water closets, urinals, lavatories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, laundries, cellar floor drains, garage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, drinking fountains, stable floor drains and other objectionable wastes, shall be discharged into a sanitary or combined sewer and in no case into a storm water sewer.
(2) Industrial waste shall not be discharged into a storm water sewer but may be discharged into a sanitary sewer if the waste is of such character as not to be detrimental to the sewerage system or to the sewage treatment works. Where such waste is detrimental to the sewerage system or to the sewage treatment works, it shall be otherwise disposed of in a satisfactory manner or so improved in character as not to be detrimental to the sewerage system or the sewage treatment works.
(3) Surface water, rain water from roofs, subsoil drainage, building foundation drainage, cistern overflow, clean water from condensers, waste water from water motors and elevators and any other clean and unobjectionable waste water shall be discharged into a storm water or combined sewer and in no case into a sanitary sewer.
(4) Connection with a cesspool or a privy vault shall not be made into a sanitary, combined or storm sewer.
(5) No person shall discharge into a building sewer, or tap a public sewer for the purpose of discharging into it, any waste or drainage water prohibited by the provisions of this section. An existing connection in violation of the provisions of this section shall be abandoned and removed.
(d) Materials; Construction. The construction and materials for sewers and connections shall be as specified by the City Engineer according to appropriate standards.
(e) Rules and Regulations. The City shall:
(1) Adopt and enforce rules and regulations in accordance with the provisions of this section for the purpose of providing control of the installation of sewer connections and inspection thereof;
(2) Maintain accurate and complete records of all permits issued for, and inspections made of, the connections to the public sewers; and
(3) Require the abandonment and removal of connections to the public sewers which violate any of the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 79-81. Passed 9-14-81; Ord. 122-22. Passed 11-14-22.)