(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Village.
(b) Where more than one building requiring sanitary sewerage is constructed on a single parcel of land, a separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each building.
(c) 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, or backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations for the Village. In the absence of code provisions, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Standard for Test Materials and Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 and any amendments thereto shall apply.
(d) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the building sewer, the sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted or gravity drained by a method approved by the Village Administrator to discharge the sewerage to the building sewer.
(e) No person shall discharge to any natural outlet within the Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Village, any wastewater or other polluted waters.
(f) No person shall construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater without first obtaining the required permits from the Village.
(g) No person, firm, or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged directly or indirectly any storm water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process water to any sanitary sewer.
(h) No person shall discharge into the building sanitary sewer the surface water which collects in basement or foundation excavations. If the building sanitary sewer is complete before the plumbing can be connected thereto, the builder or sewer tapper shall keep the end of the building sanitary sewer tightly closed with a plumber's plug or other watertight plug.
(i) The owner(s) of all houses, building, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the Village and abutting on any street, alley, or right of way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Village, is hereby required at the owner's expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly to the proper public sewer in accordance with the rules and regulations within ninety days after date of official notice to do so, provided the foundation wall of the structure from which sewage or other wastes originated is less than 100 feet from the nearest boundary of the right of way within which the sewer is located.
(j) No person shall place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the Village, or in any area under the jurisdiction of such Village, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(k) No person in constructing a sanitary sewer, building or house connection, shall leave same open, unsealed, or incomplete in such a fashion as to permit storm, surface, or subsurface water to enter such sewers.
(l) No new connections will be permitted unless there is sufficient capacity in all downstream facilities.
(Ord. 1987-65. Passed 11-12-87.)