(a) Permit Required. For the protection of the City sanitary sewer system, as well as City residents, no person shall make any tap or build any sewer line to a tap to the sanitary sewer mains of the City, without first obtaining a written permit from the Director of Utilities.
(b) License. No such permit shall be issued to any person supervising the actual installation of such sewer line and tap unless such person shall first have procured the proper license therefor from the Service Director or his authorized representative.
(c) Storm Connections Prohibited. This chapter shall apply to sanitary sewage only. The connection of any storm drainage in any manner to the City sanitary sewerage system is hereby prohibited.
(d) Deposit; Examination. Any person desiring to obtain a sewer tapper's license shall first prepare, execute and deliver to the Service Director or his authorized representative, upon a City form, his application therefor, together with a deposit in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00). Such person shall, within ninety days of such deposit date, be notified of the date upon which he is to be examined as to his knowledge and ability to properly perform such sewer tapping work. The deposit shall permit him to be licensed for the period until January of the succeeding year, should he attain a grade of seventy percent (70%) or better upon such examination.
(e) Examining Board; Renewal.
(1) A Sewer Tappers Examining Board shall be appointed by the Mayor, consisting of five persons, two of whom shall be members of Council, to be appointed for a period of not more than two years, ending on January 10, of each odd-numbered year, without salary, for the purpose of conducting examinations into the knowledge and ability of persons making application for sewer tappers' licenses.
(2) Sewer tappers licensed for each calendar year may have their licenses renewed without examination prior to February 1, of each year, upon payment of a fifty dollar ($50.00) license fee, provided that no part of their performance bond shall have been forfeited during the preceding year.
(f) Bond. No sewer tapper's license shall be issued, until the applicant has filed with the City Auditor a performance bond, in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or the same amount in cash at the discretion of the Director of Utilities, conditional upon the satisfactory installation of sewer lines and taps in accordance with the instructions of the sewer inspector detailed to such project by the City.
(Ord. 106-94. Passed 10-3-94.)