(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 approving authority.
(Ord. 1979-5. Passed 5-14-79.)
(b) There shall be one class of building sewer permits. The owner, or his agent, shall make application on a special form furnished by the Village of Carrollton. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered necessary by the approving authority. A permit and inspection fee of: twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for all sewers, shall be paid to the Village at the time of application.
(Ord. 2007-12. Passed 4-23-07.)
(c) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
(d) The owner shall indemnify the Village for any loss or damage that may directly, or indirectly, be occasioned by the Village 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 front building sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the Village does not, and shall not, assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by, or resulting from, any such single connection aforementioned.
(f) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the approving authority to meet all of the requirements of this chapter.
(g) The size, slope, alignment, 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 Village building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village. In the absence of such provisions, or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice Number 9 shall apply.
(h) 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 such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(i) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer unless such connection is approved by the approving authority for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(j) 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 Village, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice Number 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials shall be approved by the approving authority before installation.
(k) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the approving authority when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the approving authority.
(l) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the approving authority.
(Ord. 1979-5. Passed 5-14-79.)