(a) No person shall install septic tanks or tap, open or make connections with any sanitary or combined sewer within the City, or cause the same to be done, without first having registered to do so as provided in Chapter 1444. Any person desiring to install septic tanks or to tap, open or make connections with such sewer, or engage in the business of sewer tapping and make sewer connections with the public sewers or drains, shall make application in writing for such license to the Building Commissioner as provided in Chapter 1444. An applicant must comply with the provisions of Chapter 1444 and comply with all other requirements of this code.
(b) The applicant must have a minimum of four years of acceptable experience in the installation of septic tanks and the construction of sewer lines. Two years of this experience shall be as a foreman or field superintendent over a sewer construction crew, or equivalent experience, and at least two years of experience shall be as a pipe layer or as an operator of sewer trenching equipment, such as a crane or backhoe, or equivalent experience.
(c) The applicant must possess all equipment necessary, in the judgment of the Superintendent or his or her authorized representative, to adequately install septic tanks and make connections to the public sewer system, and to construct the related sewer systems being connected to the public sewer. Such equipment shall be of adequate capacity and maintained in proper working order so as to provide adequate performance at all times.
(d) A sewer tapper's license shall authorize the licensee to install septic tanks or to tap, open and make connections with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities under the provisions of the ordinances of the City and the laws of the State, provided that such license shall not be issued nor become effective until such applicant files with the Finance Director a bond as provided in Chapter 1444. Should the surety or sureties withdraw from the bond, or should the bond for any reason become of no effect, then the license issued to such applicant shall immediately become void without notice.
(e) The licensee, in making excavations in any street, alley, easement, public way or other public place, shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of law and the ordinances of the City now in force, or which may be hereafter adopted, regulating excavations. If the licensee violates any of the ordinances of the City or laws of the State relative to excavating streets or other public places, or to opening, tapping and/or connecting with public sewers or drains and drainage facilities, the Building Commissioner shall have the power to suspend the license for such time as he or she may deem proper, or to revoke the same as he or she may deem appropriate in the public interest.
(f) By the acceptance of a sewer tapper's license, the applicant assumes the responsibility for restoring any pavement, curb, sidewalk, driveway, walkway, paved path, sewer pipe or appurtenance, shrubbery, lawn or other facility in the public right-of-way or established easement which is disturbed or damaged by the operation.
(g) The Building Commissioner or City Engineer, or his or her authorized representative, shall have the authority to require the applicant, before the work is started in a public right-of-way or established easement, to have adequate machinery and manpower to safely perform the work.
(h) Fraudulent statements or other misrepresentations made by the applicant in his or her application for a license, or failure to show adequate performance in installing septic tanks or in the laying of a sewer line, or failure to abide by any of the foregoing provisions, shall be grounds stopping and/or rejecting the work and for the denial or revocation of the license by the Building Commissioner and maybe subject to criminal prosecution.
(i) No person, authorized and licensed under this chapter to install septic tanks or to make openings, taps or connections with sewers, drains or drainage facilities, or to provide septic tank cleaning or repair services, shall allow his or her name to be used by another for the purpose of obtaining permits, or for the purpose of doing any work under the license issued to him or her.
(Ord. 09-119. Passed 11-17-09.)