A. Permit Required: No addition to or alteration of any building sewer shall be made or caused to be made by any person without a permit.
B. Separate Sewers Required: 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, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building.
C. Old Sewers: Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test, to meet all requirements of a new building sewer.
D. Location; Specifications:
1. Whenever possible the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
2. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet (3') of any bearing wall.
3. No building sewers shall be installed in any place where they may be subject to freezing temperatures unless adequate provisions are made to protect them from frost.
4. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings, or a manhole.
E. Lift Station: In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
F. Maintenance Of Building Sewer: Persons connected to the sanitary sewer system through a building sewer shall maintain said building sewer in good repair, protect it from damage in any manner and prevent the entrance of uncontaminated waters. If the user fails to properly maintain the building sewer, the village shall have the authority to enter onto the property to maintain the sewer and add the cost of said maintenance on the next sewer use bill or terminate the service until proper maintenance is completed.
G. Inspection Manhole: All industrial users and such other users, except domestic users, as may be determined by the village, shall install an inspection manhole on the building sewer. Said manhole shall be located conveniently in the public right of way or easement. The manhole shall be a minimum of forty eight inches (48") in diameter and shall be equipped with such measuring and sampling equipment as may be required by the village. (Ord. 2008-13, 4-7-2008)