(a) No person including public bodies, as well as natural persons, shall make an initial out-in or connection with the sewage system and use the system without first making written application for such connection and service to the Sanitary Board and paying all costs, charges, fees and deposits incident thereto.
(b) Such application shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the Board and shall constitute an agreement by the applicant with the City to abide by all provisions of this article and such applicable rules and regulations of the City or Board in regard to the use of such sewage system. Such application for service by firms, partnerships, associations and corporations shall be submitted only by their duly authorized agent, and the official title of such agent shall be signed to the application. The application shall grant or cause to be granted to the City, without cost, all rights, easements, permits and privileges which are necessary for the rendering of sewer service. Duly authorized employees of the City or Board shall have access at all reasonable hours to the premises of the applicant for the purpose of installing or removing any of its property, examining pipes or fixtures, or for any purpose incidental to the rendering of sewer service.
(1978 Code Sec. 23-3.)