(A) General requirements. The applicant shall install sanitary sewer facilities in a manner prescribed by this chapter, and amendments hereto, and by requirements adopted by Commission rule. All attendant plans shall be designed in accordance with the rules, regulation and standards of the County Board of Health and all other appropriate county, state and federal agencies.
(B) Sewerage locations. Sanitary sewers shall be located within street or alley right-of-ways or utility easements unless topographic conditions require an alternative location.
(C) Manholes. Manholes shall be placed in public right-of-ways where a sewer line in a private easement intersects such public right-of-way. Access shall be provided for all manholes located in private property easements.
(D) Type of installation. The applicant shall install a subdivision sanitary sewerage system by one of the following means:
(1) Municipal. A complete system which conveys sewage into an established municipal or other public agency sanitary sewage disposal and treatment system, and which is approved in writing by said municipal or public agency. The applicant shall submit plans, prepared by a registered land surveyor at the applicant’s expense, showing all location, materials, size, profiles and connections at the time of application for secondary approval.
(2) Private. A complete sanitary sewage system to convey sewage to a treatment plant provided by the applicant, or others, in accordance with the requirements of the Montgomery County Board of Health and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
(3) Individual septic systems. If the applicant submits acceptable evidence to the Montgomery County Board of Health and the Commission that neither of the above two sewage systems is necessary due to low density of the development, the lack of limiting physical site conditions, or the proximity of the development to existing or planned public or quasi-public sanitary sewer systems, then the commission may permit individual sanitary sewer systems for each lot in the development subject to compliance with all of the requirements of and approval by the County Board of Health.
(E) Pre-annexation agreement required. Where a proposed subdivision lies outside of the corporate boundaries of the city and intends to connect to the city’s municipal sanitary sewage disposal and treatment system, the applicant shall prepare and obtain approval of a pre-annexation agreement from the Board of Works prior to secondary plat approval.
(Ord. 5-2009, passed 3-9-09)