(a) No person shall tap, open or make connections with any public sewer, drain, or drainage facility within the City or cause the same to be done, without first having procured a license so to do as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to tap, open or make connections with a public sewer, drain or drainage facility, or engage in the business of sewer tapping and making sewer connections with public sewers or drains, shall make application in writing for such license to the Service Director. The Director shall examine into or cause to be examined the qualifications of such applicant for such license, and shall grant a license if the applicant is found to be qualified therefor and has complied with all other requirements of this chapter.
(b) Such license shall authorize such licensee to tap, open and make connections with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities under the provisions of the ordinances of the City and laws of the State of Ohio; provided, that such license shall not be issued nor become effective until such applicant files with the Municipal Clerk a bond in the form prescribed by the Director, with surety or sureties approved by such officer in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) cash or surety, or such lesser or greater amount, depending on the nature of the project and/or any project bond schedules that are adopted by the Service Department. The amount or type of bond may be determined by the City Administrator or the City Administrator’s designee. The Law Director shall approve the form or requirements for such cash or surety bonds. Should the surety or sureties withdraw from such bond, or the bond, for any reason, become of no effect, then the license issued to such applicant shall immediately become void without notice.
(Ord. 135-1981. Passed 11-30-81; Ord. 023-2022. Passed 4-11-22.)