It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to break into or otherwise open any lateral or trunk sewer at any other place than where a "Y" has been placed for the connection of service sewers, except upon written permission of the village. All trenches left open shall be properly guarded in the daylight hours and in the night time shall be further guarded by the placing of lighted lanterns at the excavation, which lanterns shall be kept lighted from one-half hour after sundown until one-half hour before sunrise. All trenches and excavations in streets and alleys shall be refilled in a careful and workmanlike manner so as to replace as nearly as possible all excavated material and leave the surface in as good condition as before the commencement of the work. All damages to the paved surface of a street or alley shall be repaired by the person making the connections or service line repair. Excavations in streets and alleys shall be made in such manner as to impede travel as little as possible. The village may determine and limit the time such excavation may remain open, and when unnecessarily delayed, he may direct that the number of workers be increased to hasten the work to such an extent as he may deem necessary. All property owners shall be held responsible and shall repair, at their own expense, any depressions in trenching from the point of connection to their respective lot lines.
(A) 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 rear 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.
(B) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found on examination and test by the village to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(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 and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the village. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and S.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 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 public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(E) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, interior and exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(F) 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 village or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the S.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the village before installation.
(G) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(Ord. D-77, passed 10-20-1988)