(a) No person shall tap, open or make connections with any sanitary or combined sewer within the Village or cause the same to be done without first having procured approval to do so as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to tap, open or make connections with such sewer or engage in the business of sewer tapping and making sewer connections with public sewers or drains, shall make applications in writing for such approval to the Administrator. The Administrator shall examine 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 complies with all other requirements of this chapter.
(b) The applicant must have a minimum of four years of acceptable experience in the construction of sewer lines. At least two years of this experience shall be as a foreman or field superintendent over a sewer construction crew, or equivalent experience. The other two years' experience shall be as a pipelayer or as an operator of sewer trenching equipment, such as a crane or backhoe, or equivalent experience.
(c) The applicant must possess all equipment necessary in the judgement of the Administrator or his authorized representative, to adequately make connections to the public sewer system and to construct the related sewer systems being connected to the public sewer. Such equipment shall be of adequate capacity and maintained in proper working order so as to provide adequate performance at all times.
(d) Approval shall authorize the sewer tapper to tap, open and make connection with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities under the provisions of the ordinances of the Village and laws of the State, provided that such approval shall not be issued nor become effective until such applicant files with the Clerk-Auditor a bond in the form prescribed by the Administrator, with surety or sureties approved by the Administrator in the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) and containing provisions that such sewer tapper will indemnify and save harmless the Village from all loss or damage that may be either directly or indirectly occasioned by his opening, tapping or making connection with any public sewer or drain, or drainage facility and/or his failure to properly perform the work or any work incident thereto. Should the surety or sureties withdraw from the bond, or the bond for any reason becomes of no effect, then the approval issued to such applicant shall immediately become void without notice.
(e) The sewer tapper, in making excavations in any street, alley, public way or other public place shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of law and the ordinances of the Village now in force or which may be hereafter adopted, regulating excavations. If the sewer tapper violates any of the ordinances of the Village or laws of the State relative to the excavating of streets or other public places, or the facilities, the Administrator shall have the power to revoke approval for such time as he may deem proper, or revoke the same as he may deem appropriate in the public interest.
(f) By acceptance of approval, the applicant assumes responsibility for restoring any pavement, curb, sidewalk, driveway, sewer pipe or appurtenance, shrubbery, lawn or other facility in the public right-of-way which is disturbed or damaged by the operation.
(g) The Administrator or his authorized representative shall have the authority to require the applicant, before work is started in a public right-of-way, to have two men on the job: one operator of trenching equipment and one man as a pipe layer.
(h) Fraudulent statements or other misrepresentations made by the applicant in his application, or failure to show adequate performance in laying of a sewer line, or failure to abide by any of the foregoing provisions, shall be grounds for the denial or revocation of the approval by the Administrator.
(i) No person, authorized under this chapter to make openings, taps or connections with sewers, drains 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 approval issued to him.
(Ord. 930-3-93. Passed 3-12-93.)