(A) No unauthorized person(s) shall uncover, make any connections with or open into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the city.
(B) Sewer service line building permits shall be obtained by the owner by making 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 city. A permit and inspection fee shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed.
(C) All costs and expense incidental to the installation and connection of the sewer service line 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 sewer service line.
(D) A separate and independent sewer service line shall be provided for every building except where more than one building stands on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to any building through an adjoining alley, court, yard, or driveway. In this case, the sewer service line may be extended to the other building and the whole considered as one sewer service line, 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 sewer service lines may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and tested by the Building Inspector to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(F) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers including sewer service lines, 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 city and the state. In the absence of suitable code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the most current adopted edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code shall apply.
(G) Whenever possible, the sewer service line 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 engage in or conduct business of sewer connections, or excavate any trenches for sewer pipe, or open, uncover, or in any manner make connection with, or lay any sewer or drain, or attach to, modify or repair any appurtenances to sewer connections in streets or alleys, or other grounds of the city or with any private sewer or drain without being properly registered for such work and without holding a license. The connection of the sewer service line into a public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules of the State Department of Environment and Energy. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city before installation.
(I) The applicant for the sewer service line permit shall notify the Building Inspector when the service line is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the Building Inspector or his or her representative.
(J) All excavations for sewer service line 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 Building Inspector at the owner’s expense.
(K) Sewer service lines shall not connect directly into a manhole of the treatment works without prior written permission from the city.
(Prior Code, § 52.04) Penalty, see § 52.99