No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the City. The application for the permit shall set forth the location and description of the property to be connected with the sewer system and the purpose for which the sewer is to be used, and shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent. The permit shall require the owner to complete construction and connection of the building sewer to the public sewer within sixty (60) days after the issuance of the permit, except that when a property owner makes sufficient showing that due to conditions beyond the owner’s control or peculiar hardship, such time period is inequitable or unfair, an extension of time within which to comply with the provisions herein may be granted. Any sewer connection permit may be revoked at any time for a violation of these chapters.
The following charges shall be paid to the City prior to the installation of a new sanitary sewer service or the issuance of any sanitary sewer connection permit from the premises to which the charges apply. Each premise applying for a new sanitary sewer service, as distinguished from a change in location or reconnection of equivalent size, shall pay the connection charge, based on the sanitary sewer service pipe size, as follows:
SERVICE SIZE | FEE |
4" | $500.00 |
6" | $2,000.00 |
8" | $4,000.00 |
In addition to the connection charge, any "out of pocket" expenses incurred by the City in making sewer service available to the property served, including but not limited to costs for flow measuring devices, shall be reimbursed to the City. Any labor expenses incurred by the City involved with the connection process will be charged back to the applicant at the applicable labor rates and be reimbursed back to the City.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 384.84)
All installations of building sewers and connections to the public sewer shall be made by a plumber approved by the City. The City Administrator shall have the power to suspend the approval of any plumber for violation of any of the provisions of these Sanitary Sewer chapters; a suspension, unless revoked, shall continue until the next regular meeting of the Council. The City Administrator shall notify the plumber immediately by personal written notice of the suspension, the reasons for the suspension, and the time and place of the Council meeting at which the plumber will be granted a hearing. At this Council meeting the City Administrator shall make a written report to the Council stating the reasons for the suspension, and the Council, after fair hearing, shall affirm or revoke the suspension or take any further action that is necessary and proper. The plumber shall provide a surety bond in the minimum sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) secured by a responsible surety bonding company authorized to operate within the State, conditioned to indemnify and save the City harmless against all losses or damages that may arise from or be occasioned by the making of connections with the public sewers or excavations therefor or by carelessness, negligence or unskillfulness in making the same. Such bond shall remain in force and must be executed for a period of one year except that on such expiration it shall remain in force as to all penalties, claims and demands that may have accrued thereunder prior to such expiration. In lieu of a surety bond, a cash deposit of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) may be filed with the City.
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the City. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with A.S.T.M. (American Society for Testing and Materials) Specification C-12, except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected. The excavations shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 135 where applicable.
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