(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or open onto, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Sanitary Board.
(b) There shall be two classes of sewer service connection fees:
(1) For service where the service connection is in place ready for the owner to connect, generally at the property line; and
(2) For service where the Sanitary Board must first make an opening in the Board's collector sewer and then extend the line to the owner's property line. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Sanitary Board. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Sanitary Board. A permit and inspection fee shall be paid to the Sanitary Board as the same are set out in the rules and regulations issued by the Public Commission of the State.
(c) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of a building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Sanitary Board 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 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 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 Sanitary Board to meet all requirements of this article.
(f) The size, slope, alignment and 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 and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Sanitary Board. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(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 groundwater 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 and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Sanitary Board or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Sanitary Board before installation.
(j) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Sanitary Board when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Sanitary Board or its representative.
(k) 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 Sanitary Board and the City.
(Ord. 375. Passed 8-16-76.)