(a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereon without obtaining a written permit from the City Manager.
(b) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits; 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 special 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 City Manager. A permit and inspection fee of one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00), for a permit within the City limits, and a fee of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00), for a permit outside the City limits, shall be paid at the time of filing the application.
(Ord. 90-05. Passed 2-22-90; Ord. 96-07. Passed 4-1-96.)
(2) Any newly constructed structure, residential or commercial, on a lot that the existing structure was removed or replaced, the permit and inspection fee will be waived, if and only if the existing lateral is used for the new structure. If a new tap is made, a permit and inspection fee must be paid.
(c) 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 or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(d) 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, if approved by the Trumbull County Health Department.
(e) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the City Manager, or his authorized agent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(f) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavation, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of local code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate A.S.T.M. specifications shall apply.
(g) 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.
(h) No person shall make connection or roof drain spouts and areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer of building drain which in turn is connected directly to or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(i) 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 A.S.T.M. specifications, specifically the use of premium seal pipe.
All new connections on existing lines shall be required to use a saddle clamp. On all new developments, laterals will be required for each vacant lot. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the City Manager before installation.
(j) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the City Manager when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the City Manager or his representative.
(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 cause of the work and shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
(l) The City shall in no way perform any work or pay any costs incurred, involving the connection of building drains to public sanitary sewers.
(Ord. 90-05. Passed 2-22-90.)
(m) All laterals must be sealed if a building or structure is torn down or removed. A representative of the City shall inspect the sealing of all laterals that are left after a building or structure has been torn down or removed.
(Ord. 91-30. Passed 12-2-91.)