(a) Permit Required. No unauthorized person 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 City. A permit shall also be required for uncovering, installing a clean out or making a repair to an existing building sewer. A new permit will only be issued when it has been determined by the Director that there exists sufficient capacity in the downstream sewerage facilities including the collection system, pump stations, and wastewater treatment facilities.
(b) Residential and Industrial Building Sewer Permits. There shall be two classes of building sewer permits, one for residential and commercial service, and one for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his 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 Director.
Industrial User permits, as a condition of permit authorization, shall provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity on application forms provided by the City.
A permit, inspection, and connection fee in the amount prescribed in Chapter 941, Sewer Rates, for a residential, commercial, or industrial building shall be paid to the City, through the office of the Director at the time the application is filed.
(c) Owner Responsibility.
(1) All costs and expense incidental to the installation, connection and maintenance of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation and maintenance of the building sewer.
(2) When it is apparent a building sewer has failed and such apparent failure is located in proximity of the connection to the public sewer, the owner shall cause said apparent failure to be excavated and appropriate repairs accomplished. If, upon excavation, the failure is beyond the building sewer connection, the City shall make payment directly to the contractor, upon submittal of properly documented invoices, for work performed by the contractor at the direction of appropriate City personnel as approved by the Director.
(d) Each Building to Have Own Sewer; Exceptions. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building except that where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot, and no 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) Reuse of Building Sewers. Existing building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test as required by the City, to meet all the requirements of this chapter. Examination and testing may include TV inspection and/or pressure testing. Any costs for examination and testing shall be borne by the owner.
(f) Repairs of Surface. Any settlement of the surface over a drain on any street or public way occurring within six months after the laying of the drain shall be repaired by the City at the expense of the drain layer, if the repairs are not made by the drain layer within 7 days after notice to repair is given to the drain layer by the Director.
(g) Construction Standards. The size, slope, alignment, material 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 conform to the lasted construction design standards as maintained by the City Engineer's office.
(h) Interior Work. Connections to the interior of buildings or any work in the interior of buildings shall be made only in accordance with the statutes of the State of Ohio and the rules of the County Board of Health.
(i) Drain Laying Work; Supervision and Permit. A licensed drain layer shall give his personal supervision to the drain laying work, and shall be present during the excavating for the same. The permit for the work issued by the Director must be kept on the site of the work and shown to the Director or his authorized agent or to any officer or police officer upon demand.
(j) Work with Sewer; License. No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, alter, or disturb any public or private sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a license from the Director.
(k) Licenses for Drain Layers. A drain layer shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. An annual license fee as indicated on the current fee schedule shall be paid to the City through the office of the Director at the time the application is filed.
(l) Bond. Every person to whom a license is granted shall file a bond with the Director of Public Service and Safety to his approval, with at least two sureties or an approved surety company, in the sum of $10,000, conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the City from all damage arising from the laying of drains or from connections made with the public sewers.
(m) Revocation of License. Upon the failure of any drain layer to comply fully with all the terms and requirements of this chapter, the Director may revoke his license for a period of six months or longer at the option of the Director.
(Ord. 2014-09. Passed 3-4-14.)