(A) Permit and Bond Required. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereto without first obtaining a written permit therefor from the Village Administrator. Before a permit is issued for an excavation for plumbing in any public street, way or alley, the applicant for such permit must execute unto the village and deposit with the Village Fiscal Officer a corporate surety of $5,000 conditioned that upon the applicant's performing faithfully all work with due care and skill in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations established under the authority or any ordinance of the village pertaining to plumbing. Such bond shall state that the applicant will indemnify and save harmless the village and the owner of the premises against all damages, costs, expenses, outlays and claims of any kind arising out of unskillfulness or negligence on the applicant's part in connection with the plumbing or the excavation for plumbing as prescribed in this chapter. Such bond shall remain in force and shall be executed for five years, except that upon such expiration it shall remain in force as to all penalties, claims and demands that may have accrued thereunder prior to such expiration.
(B) Classes of Permits: Fees. There are two classes of building sewer permits: one for residential service and one for service to establishments producing industrial waste. In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Administrator. Permit applications shall be supplemented by such plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the inspector. An inspection fee of $10 for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and $25 for an industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the Village Fiscal Officer at the time the application is filed.
(C) Costs: Indemnification of village. All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of a building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner or the person installing the building sewer for the owner shall indemnify the village for any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by such installation.
(D) 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 property 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. Other exceptions shall be allowed only by special permission granted by the Superintendent of the Municipal Sewage Works.
(E) Old Building Sewers. Old building sewers or portions thereof may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the inspector, to meet all of the requirements of this chapter.
(F) Construction of Sewers. The building sewer shall be constructed of either vitrified clay sewer pipes and fittings meeting the current A.S.T.M. specifications for standard or extra-strength clay sewer pipe; asbestos cement; plastic P.V.C. pipes and fittings meeting the current A.S.T.M. specifications; extra-heavy cast iron soil pipes meeting the current A.S.T.M. specifications or the Department of Commerce commercial standards for extra heavy cast iron soil pipe and fittings; or concrete sewer pipes and fittings meeting the current A.S.T.M. specifications for standard or extra-strength concrete sewer pipe. If installed in filled or unstable ground, the building sewer shall be of cast iron soil pipe, except that vitrified clay pipe or concrete pipe may be accepted if laid on a suitable improved bed or cradle as approved by the inspector.
(G) Joints and Connections. All joints and connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Vitrified clay sewer pipe shall be fitted with factory-made resilient compression joints meeting the A.S.T.M. specifications for vitrified clay pipe joints having resilient properties (Designation 0425). Concrete sewer pipe joints shall be of the rubber ring, flexible compression type, similar and equal to joints specified for vitrified clay pipe. Before joining a pipe in the trench, the bell and spigot surfaces shall be wiped free of dirt or other foreign matter. A lubricant or sealer, as recommended by the pipe manufacturer, shall be applied to the bell and spigot mating surfaces just before they are joined together. The spigot end shall be positioned into the bell end of the pipe previously laid and shall then be shoved home to compress the joint and to ensure a tight fit between the interfaces. Joints for cast iron soil pipe shall be made by inserting a roll of hemp or jute and thoroughly caulking it into place and then following with pure molten lead well caulked, not less than one inch deep. No paint, varnish or putty is allowed in the joints until they have been tested and approved. Joints for cast iron soil pipe may also be of an acceptable compression type. Asbestos-cement pipe joints shall be made with sleeves and rubber sealing rings. Plastic P.V.C. pipe joints shall be made with sleeves and/or rubber sealing rings.
(H) Size and Slope. The size and slope of a building sewer is subject to the approval of the inspector, but in no event shall the diameter thereof be less than four inches. The slope of such four-inch pipe shall be not less than one-eighth of an inch per foot. A slope of one-fourth of an inch per foot shall be used wherever practical.
(I) Elevation. Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the inspector. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with A.S.T.M. specifications (Designation C12), except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected by the inspector or his or her representative.
(J) Artificial Lifting of Sewage. In all buildings in which the building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drains shall be lifted by an approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer. No water operated sewage ejector shall be used.
(K) Point of Connection. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the "Y" branch designated for that property, if such branch is available at a suitable location. Any connection not made at the designated "Y" branch in the main sewer shall be made only as directed by the inspector.
(L) Notification of Inspector Prior to Connection. The applicant for the building sewer shall notify the inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the inspector or his or her representative.
(M) Guarding of Excavations: Restoration of Streets and Sidewalks. All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Administrator.
(N) Nonliability of Village. The Village shall in no event be held responsible for any claim made against it by reason of the breaking of a main or service pipe or by reason of any other interruption of the service caused by the breaking of machinery or the stoppage of necessary repairs. No person shall be entitled to damages or have any portion of a payment refunded for any interruption.
(O) Inspections. The premises receiving sanitary sewer service shall, at all reasonable hours, be subject to inspection by duly authorized personnel of the village.
(`94 Code, § 945.10) (Ord. 8-73S, passed 4-9-73) Penalty, see § 53.99