(a) No person, firm or corporation shall open or tap any sewer or construct any drain or sewer in any street, alley or public place in the City or open or dig in any street, alley or public place in the City for the purpose above mentioned or for the repair of any sewer or sewer connection without first obtaining from the Director of Public Service a permit to do such work.
(b) Before a permit shall be issued the person applying therefor must furnish to the Director the name of the owner of the property, number of the lot for the benefit of which any tap is to be made or which such drain, sewer or sewer connection serves, the street on which same is located, between what streets and the subdivision in which the lot is located, also the name of the owner of the benefited property or lot.
(c) No person shall do any of the work herein mentioned except in strict accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(d) No permit shall be issued except to a duly licensed sewer tapper or until such sewer tapper has filed with the Director a bond in such sum as may be determined by the Director and to the satisfaction of the Director such bond shall be conditioned on the execution of all work in conformity with all ordinances and laws. The signers of such bond shall be made specifically liable to the City for all expense of repairs, removal of surplus material, cleaning up and damage incurred by the City by reason of any work done by the licensee.
(e) Each building used as a place of residence hereafter connected with the sewer system of the City shall be connected with the system by a house sewer separately and independently from all other buildings similarly used.
(f) Any person obtaining a permit as provided in subsection (a) hereof shall retain the number thereof and must notify the Director at least one day before making any tap or laying any pipe. In so reporting the number of the permit must be given. No tap or connection shall be made except in the presence of the Director of Public Service or an authorized City inspector.
(g) No private sewer shall be constructed in public highways or property except upon plans approved by the Director. Such sewers must be built upon line and grade furnished by the Engineer employed by the City and under his supervision or that of the Director. The expense of such lines and grades and inspection shall be paid by the owner or owners of such private sewer.
(h) In making connection to sewers the proper branch as determined by the Director shall be carefully located and connection made therewith by means of straight lines or easy curves. If no branch of the sewer is accessible or if a branch is not found where indicated by the plans of the sewer, a pipe must be removed from the sewer and a Y branch inserted. Breaking or cutting of the sewer and the insertion of connecting pipe shall not be permitted. The removal of pipe and insertion of branch must be done with extreme care and any adjacent pipe broken must be removed and replaced. The same rule shall apply to the removal of the plug from existing branches. (Ord. 46. Passed 8-12-11.)
(i) All connections must be six inches in diameter of a sewer pipe approved by the Director of Building and Zoning with joints well and carefully made. Pipe shall not be laid in water. If necessary, a bag of sand or other proper follower of the full inside diameter of the pipe shall be kept in the pipe and pulled through as pipe laying progresses to insure the removal of all cement from the interior of the pipe.
(Ord. 97-03. Passed 2-18-97.)
(j) No connection shall have a grade of less than one-fourth inch per foot if the same can possibly be secured and in no case shall such connection be laid to a grade of less than one-eighth inch per foot. All pipe must be well supported particularly at the point of connection with the sewer, and shall be laid as nearly straight as possible. All changes of direction shall be made with proper curves.
(k) In all operations of the nature described in this chapter care shall be taken not to damage any existing structures of any nature and if unavoidably damaged such structures shall be replaced by the person to whom the permit for such work was issued.
(l) The trench must be back filled by carefully filling with earth thoroughly tamped around the pipe and tamped in six inch layers or flooded with water to the satisfaction of the Director and the surface shall be immediately replaced or renewed in as good condition as before the work was done. No tunnelling shall be done without special permission of the Director.
(m) No permit shall be issued to connect with any public sewer unless the owner of the property to be connected shall have paid all taxes, assessments or other public charges due and payable on such property. No permit shall be issued to connect with any sewer that has been constructed under private ownership until the owner of the sewer shall notify the City in writing of their consent to such connection.
(n) No connection shall be made with any sewer from any vault, cesspool, roof or surface drain. No connection shall be made from any cellar drain, meaning thereby pipe or tile laid for the purpose of intercepting sub-soil water about the foundations of any building except by special permission of the Director of Public Service. No connections shall be made from any other sub-surface drainage system designed to receive and remove sub-soil waters.
(o) All openings and obstructions in any street, sidewalk, or other dangerous place shall be carefully guarded and protected and lighted during the night with red lights. Excavations shall not be left open longer than absolutely necessary and all other precautions shall be taken to guard against accident and to inconvenience property owners and the public to the least possible extent.
(p) No traps shall be placed under any highway or other public property.
(Ord. 46. Passed 8-12-11.)