(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 Municipality.
(b) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) For residential and commercial, and
(2) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application with the Village for such installation. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Building Inspector. A permit and inspection fee for a building sewer permit shall be paid at the time the application is filed.
(c) 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 from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(d) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building except that 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, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(e) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Building Inspector, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(f) The size, shape, 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 Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Municipality.
(g) 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.
(h) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(i) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Municipality. All connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Building Inspector before installation.
(j) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Building Inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under supervision of the Building Inspector or his representative. Regardless of fit, the first joint from the public sewer lateral to the home lateral shall be cemented.
(k) All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Municipality.
(Ord. 1968-738. Passed 9-17-68.)
(l) The Municipal Engineer is directed, prior to final approval of any newly installed sewer system and/or reconstructed sewer, to require that any and all contractors cause to be made photographs of the entire sewer system installed, showing thereby that the sewer system has been constructed upon a sound engineering basis, that the sewer system is free of any and all accumulations of foreign substance and nature and that the passage and flow of sewage and storm water is free and clear.
(m) Upon inspection of such photographs and if satisfied that such sewer is free and clear of all foreign substance and that there is nothing present to prevent free flow of sewage and storm waters, the Engineer is hereby authorized to approve the same as a final inspection, placing in safekeeping all photographs for future reference.
(n) The cost of such photographing and photographs shall be entirely paid for by the contractor or developer of such land and/or sewer system and the photographs shall remain the property of the Municipality.
(Ord. 1964-604. Passed 8-10-64.)
(Ord. 1964-604. Passed 8-10-64.)