(A) Generally. The size, shape, alignment, materials, or construction of a building (or house) lateral sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing the pipe, jointing, testing, and back-filling the trench shall conform to the city Building and Plumbing Codes and other applicable city rules and regulations.
(B) Determining major contributors. Each commercial and industrial user shall supply the city with information about expected wastewater constituents and characteristics to be used in determining whether or not the user will be a major contributor.
(C) Separate sewer requirements. A separate and independent building (or house) lateral sewer shall be provided for every building (or house); except where one building (or house) stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building (or house) through an adjoining alley, court, yard, or driveway. In such cases, the building (or house) lateral sewer from the front building (or house) may be extended to the rear building (or house) and the whole considered as one building (or house) lateral sewer.
(D) Use of old lateral sewer for new building. Previously existing building or house lateral sewers may be used in connection with new buildings or houses only when they are determined, upon examination and test by the Inspector, to meet all requirements of this subchapter.
(E) Elevation and location of building or house lateral sewer. Whenever reasonably possible, the building or house lateral sewer shall be brought to the building or house at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings or houses in which any building or house drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the appropriate public sewer, wastewater carried by that building or house drain shall be lifted by an appropriate means and discharged to the building or house lateral sewer.
(F) Connection to downspouts, drains, and the like. No person shall connect or reconnect roof downspouts, footing drains, areaway drains, driveways, parking lots, or other sources of surface, runoff, or groundwater, after to a building or house lateral sewer or building or house drain which is in turn connected directly or indirectly to the sewerage system.
(G) Inspection; supervision of connection. The applicant for the building or house lateral sewer permit shall notify the Council or its designated representative when a building or house lateral sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the sewerage system. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Inspector or his or her representative using materials and techniques conforming to the requirements of the Council. The applicant shall give notice before the burial or covering of the lateral sewer and shall not cover or bury the sewer until the inspection is completed and the connection approved.
(Prior Code, § 36-9-23-1-2.3) (Ord. 2-1981, passed 2-24-1981; Ord. 3-1982, passed 7-6-1982) Penalty, see § 54.999