(A) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Wastewater System, general offices located on Andrus Drive, Murray, Kentucky.
(B) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: one for residential and commercial service, and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a form furnished by the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Utilities Engineer.
(C) A permit shall also be obtained from the Plumbing Inspector located at the County Health Department. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Utilities Engineer and State Plumbing Inspector when the building sewer is completed and connected to the public sewer. No backfill shall be placed until inspection can be accomplished by the Utilities Engineer or his representatives and by the State Plumbing Inspector.
(D) 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 city from any loss or damage that may directly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(E) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except that 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 of the building through an adjoining alley, courtyard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(F) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when on examination and test by the Utilities Engineer they are found to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(G) 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 city. 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 W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply. If PVC pipe is used for building sewer connection, it shall be the strength of schedule 40 PVC pipe or greater.
(H) 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 a method approved by the Utilities Engineer and discharged to the building sewer.
(I) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, 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.
(J) 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 city, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the W.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 Utilities Engineer before installation.
(K) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the city.
(L) For the purpose of establishing rules and regulations applicable to the practice or trade of plumbing, the city adopts the most current Plumbing Code of the State Department of Housing and Construction, Division of Plumbing, as a part of this chapter by reference thereto.
(Ord. 793, passed 12-8-83) Penalty, see § 52.99