(A) No unauthorized person(s) 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 Superintendent.
(B) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits. One shall be for residential and commercial service, and one shall be for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner(s) or his, her, or their agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A tapping fee of $100 shall be submitted with all such applications.
(C) All costs and expense incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the city 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 alley, yard, court, or driveway. The building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the city does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(E) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this subchapter.
(F) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the State Planning Code, being SDCL Title 11, or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of suitable 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.P. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply unless otherwise stipulated herein.
(G) The building sewers shall be constructed of PVC sewer pipe and fittings meeting the current A.S.T.M. and State Plumbing Code, being SDCL Chapter 36-25, rules and regulations. All joints and connections shall be made gas tight and watertight and verified by proper testing when so requested by the Superintendent.
(H) (1) 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.
(2) No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall which might thereby be weakened. The building sewer shall be laid in straight alignment at a uniform grade of one-fourth inch per foot wherever practical but in no case less than one-eighth inch per foot. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
(I) All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent.
(J) No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, 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 unless such connection is approved by the Superintendent for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(K) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the “Y” branch if such branch is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer is 12 inches in diameter or less and no properly located “Y” branch is available, the owner shall, at personal expense, install a “Y” branch in the public sewer at the location specified by the Superintendent. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at a higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Superintendent.
(L) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or a representative of the Superintendent.
(M) 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 city.
(Prior Code, § 11.0203) Penalty, see § 52.99