(A) Permit. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent.
(B) Costs and expenses; indemnification.
(1) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of a building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
(2) The owner shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(C) Separate building sewers. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(D) Old sewers. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(E) Methods and materials. 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 code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town.
(F) Elevation.
(1) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
(2) In any building in which the 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.
(G) Surface water. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(H) Compliance with regulations. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town.
(I) Notification of Superintendent.
(1) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer.
(2) The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his or her representative.
(J) Hazards to public; restoration of public ways. 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 town.
(Prior Code, § 8-2-8) Penalty, see § 52.99