(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof, without first obtaining a written permit from the Village Administrator.
(Ord. 95-7. Passed 6-19-95.)
(b) There shall be two (2) classes of sewer tap permits. The first class covers residential and commercial service and the second class covers service to establishments producing industrial waste. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Municipality. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Village Administrator. A tap and inspection fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) plus time and materials for residential or commercial or industrial sewer tap permit shall be paid into the Fiscal Officer at the time the application is filed.
(Ord. 2008-21. Passed 12-15-08.)
(c) The written permission to construct a sewer or to make a connection to a public sanitary sewer, shall specify the permissible use of such sewer and connections and such specifications shall be governed by the following requirements; sewage, including wastes from water closets, urinals, laboratories, sinks, bathtubs, showers, laundries, cellar floor drains, garbage floor drains, bars, soda fountains, drinking fountains, stable floor drains and other objectionable wastes shall be discharged into the sanitary sewer and in no case into a storm sewer.
(d) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Municipality of any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(e) 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.
(f) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found on examination and tests by the Village Administrator, to meet all requirements of this section.
(g) Connection with a cesspool or privy shall not be made into the sanitary sewer.
(h) A trap for the interception of grease and oil shall be provided on a connection from a hotel, motel, restaurant, club or institutional kitchen and from a public garage or automobile washing station. Such traps and its installation shall be subject to the approval of the Municipality.
(i) No person shall discharge into a sewer or tap a sewer for the purpose of discharging into it any waste or drainage water prohibited by this chapter. Any existing sewer and drainage connections in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be abandoned and removed as soon as possible.
(Ord. 95-7. Passed 6-19-95.)