(a) 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 Engineer.
(b) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) For residential and commercial service, and
(2) 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 Engineer. A permit and inspection fee of one-hundred dollars ($100.00) for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and two-hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for an industrial building sewer permit shall he paid to the City at the time the application is filed.
(c) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building 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 of the building sewer.
(d) Whenever more than one building is to be connected to the sanitary sewer, one common building sewer shall be provided with the appropriate sampling manhole and flow measurement device whenever necessary.
(e) Functional existing sewers may be used in connections with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Engineer to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(f) The size, slope, alignment, 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 Codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. 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 sewer is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building sewer shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(h) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, 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 Codes of other applicable rules and regulations of the City, 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 Engineer before installation.
(j) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Engineer when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connections shall be made under the supervision of the City Engineer.
(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 City.
(Ord. 7662-09. Passed 8-27-09.)