(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 Service Director. A licensed sewer tapper making application for a permit shall have the owner's authority to make such application and shall be deemed the owner's agent.
(b) No temporary or accommodation connections or taps to a sanitary sewer within the City shall be permitted to serve property located outside of the sewer district in which such sewer is located. The Service Director shall have no authority to authorize or permit a connection or tap of the type or character referred to in this section without the expressed approval of Council.
(c) No permit shall be issued allowing connections to be made with any public sewer, to serve or drain any lots or lands, where the owners or former owners of which for any reason have not paid or have refused to pay the portion of the cost of such public sewer allocated by Council to such lots or land or who have not paid all assessments levied against such lots or lands for sanitary or drainage purposes, or any lots or lands which have not been assessed for such sewer or drainage unless the owner thereof shall pay to the City such unpaid assessments. Money so paid shall be placed to the credit of an appropriate sewer fund.
(d) 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 Service Director. A permit and inspection fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for an industrial wastes permit shall be paid to the City Treasurer at the time the application is filed. The permit shall be issued by the Service Director after the required fee for the tap has been deposited with the City Treasurer and may be revoked for violation of any provision of this chapter or failure to comply with the reasonable rules, regulations and orders of the Service Director adopted pursuant hereto.
(e) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify and save harmless the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(f) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building. This section shall not apply to buildings which perform related functions as part of an industrial complex.
(g) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Service Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(h) In those cases where the City constructs and installs a sanitary sewer lateral at its cost of less than 500 feet in length, abutting less than a total of ten property owners and where the installation of the "short" sewer lateral has been demanded and required by Health Board regulation, the sanitary sewer connection permit fee for each abutting property owner shall be equal to the pro rata cost of installation of the "short" sewer lateral.
(i) The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Service Director, but in no event shall the diameter be less than six inches. The slope of such six-inch pipe shall not be less than one and four-tenths percent (1.04%) or one-eighth inch per foot.
(j) Building sewers which are directly or indirectly connected into the public sewer system shall conform to the City specifications and standard detail drawings.
(k) In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater carried by such a drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building or public sewer.
(l) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Service Director when twenty-four hours before the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer to insure inspection of the following day. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Service Director or his representative.
If the construction is backfilled or otherwise covered before such inspection, the Service Director may require the fill or cover to be removed at the expense of the permittee or person making such tap. Such expense if not otherwise paid, shall be an obligation under the bond provided for in Section 920.07.
(m) All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Service Director.
(n) No person, authorized and licensed under this chapter to make openings, taps or connections with sewers, drain or drainage facilities or provide septic tank cleaning or repair services, shall allow his name to be used by another for the purpose of obtaining permits, or of doing any work under a license issued to him.
(o) Each person who makes openings, taps or connections with or constructs sewers or drains upon or over public streets or property, shall keep in repair and good order the whole of the work executed by him, until the same is accepted by the Service Director or his authorized representative, which acceptance shall be given in writing, and if deemed necessary by the Director may be deferred until the expiration of one year after the completion of the work.
(p) In case it is necessary to connect a drain or sewer pipe with a public sewer or drainage facility when no junction is left in the same, the new connection with the public sewer or drainage facility shall be made only when a representative of the City, designated by the Service Director, is present to see the whole of the work performed.
(q) The owner shall maintain and repair private sewers lying within the right-of-way limits of dedicated public streets and alleys.
(r) The Service Director is hereby authorized to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary or proper in respect to or to provide for:
(1) The safe, economical and efficient management and protection of the public sanitary, combined or storm sewer system, facilities and appurtenances;
(2) The treatment, pumping and disposal of wastewater, wastes, storm waters and any pumping, transmission or facilities therefor;
(3) The construction, repair, maintenance and use of the public sewer system, facilities, appurtenances and connections thereto, including the materials used in and methods employed in the performance of work pertaining thereto; and
(4) Such applications, permits, bonds and other forms or documents as may be necessary or convenient to the discharge of his duties and responsibilities in respect to and the enforcement of the provisions of this Council pertaining to the subject matter hereof.
Such rules and regulations when approved by Council shall be enforced to the same extent as the provisions of this chapter or other legislations enacted by Council and violations thereof shall be punished as provided in Section 920.09.
(s) The following license fees and permit fees are hereby imposed and shall be collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter:
(1) | Sanitary sewer or combined sewer tapper's license: | $100.00 |
(2) | Sanitary sewer or combined sewer tapper's license renewal: | 25.00 per year |
(3) | Permit to open or tap a sanitary sewer for residential or commercial building: | 25.00 |
(4) | Permit to open or tap a sanitary sewer for industrial user: | 50.00 |
(5) | Permit to repair sanitary or combined sewer including inspection for a maximum of four hours: | 25.00 |
(6) | Permit to open or tap a sanitary sewer manhole: | 50.00 |
Each such license or renewal thereof shall be valid until December 31 of the year in which issued unless sooner terminated or revoked as provided herein.
(t) For grease, oil, petroleum products, inorganic material and other materials as listed in the Ohio Building Code such as sand, grit, etc., interceptors shall be provided when in the opinion of the Service Director they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease in excessive amounts or any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Service Director and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates, and means of disposal which are subject to review by the Service Director. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by the owner(s)' personnel shall be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(Ord. 239 (86-87). Passed 7-2-87.)