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(A) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits. For residential and commercial cases, the owner or owner’s agent shall make application to the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the City Engineer, Director of Public Works or Chief Building and Code Inspector. A permit fee as set by resolution for each connection with the sanitary sewer system shall be charged to the applicant and in addition, if the connection is made to a sanitary sewer main or mains on which the property had not paid a previous sanitary sewer assessment, the applicant shall pay a special connection charge as set by resolution, except in cases the front footage of the lot exceeds 66 feet, the applicant shall pay an amount as set by resolution per front foot of the lot described in the application.
(B) The aforesaid fees and charges shall be in addition to other fees and charges provided for in this chapter. Said special connection charges shall be paid only once with respect to the property. For purposes of this section, FRONT FOOTAGE OF THE LOT is determined as the portion of the lot facing the sewer main to which the person wishes to connect. Such connection charge shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed.
(Prior Code, § 51.062) (Ord. 94-50, passed 9-6-1994; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003)
(A) A special connection charge as set by resolution shall be paid to the city prior to making a connection to the public sanitary sewer system of the city outside the corporate limits of the city. This special connection fee shall be in addition to any other fees and charges provided for in this chapter and shall be applicable to each connection to the sanitary sewer system of the city outside the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 51.063)
(B) Applicants for sewer connection shall be charged for expenses for all service pipe and trenching to which the applicant’s connection is to be made.
(C) (1) If the connection is to be made to any sanitary sewer which have been laid and constructed in a sewer district of the city wherein special assessments have been levied upon the property in the district to pay all or any part of the cost of construction thereof, and the property to which the connection is made has not been assessed in the district, or if the connection is to be made to any sanitary sewer hereafter constructed by the city without the levying of any special assessments for the construction thereof, the person desiring to connect shall pay the city a special connection charge as set by resolution.
(2) The fees and charges shall be in addition to other fees and charges provided for in this chapter. The special connection charge shall be paid only once with respect to the property.
(3) For the purposes of this section, FRONT FOOTAGE OF THE LOT is determined as that portion of the lot facing the sanitary sewer to which the person wishes to connect. The connection charge shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed.
(Ord. 2696, passed 3-3-1980; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003)
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be the responsibility of by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(Prior Code, § 51.064) (Ord. 2270, passed 6-17-1972; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003)
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each building.
(Prior Code, § 51.065) (Ord. 2270, passed 6-17-1972; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003) Penalty, see § 51.999
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Developer or Contractor and approved for use by the Department of Public Works.
(Prior Code, § 51.066) (Ord. 2270, passed 6-17-1972; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003) Penalty, see § 51.999
The type and size of materials, slope and alignment of a lateral sewer, materials of construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the city.
(Prior Code, § 51.067) (Ord. 2270, passed 6-17-1972; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003) Penalty, see § 51.999
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.
(Prior Code, § 51.068) (Ord. 2270, passed 6-17-1972; Ord. 03-39, passed 11-17-2003) Penalty, see § 51.999
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