(a) No person other than an authorized employee of the Village shall make any opening in or connection with a public storm sewer, sanitary sewer or other public drain or drainage facility unless a permit therefor has been obtained prior to the commencement of the work as provided in this chapter.
(b) Application for a sewer tapping permit shall be made on a form prescribed by and procurable from the Administrator providing such information concerning the proposed work as is required thereby. The permit shall be issued by the Administrator after the required fee for the tap has been deposited with the Director of Finance and may be revoked for violation of any provision of this chapter or failure to comply with the reasonable rules, regulations and orders of the Administrator adopted pursuant hereto.
(c) The fee required for a sewer tap shall be in accordance with Exhibit A.
(d) Building sewers which are directly or indirectly connected into the public sewer system shall conform to the Village of Richfield specifications and standard detail drawings.
(e) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer, including those building sewers requiring septic tanks, shall be borne by the owner.
(f) Not more than one residence or building, unless otherwise approved by the Administrator, may be connected to each building sewer lateral. All costs and expenses incidental to the installation, connection and maintenance of a building sewer without a septic tank shall be borne by the owner.
(g) The Administrator shall be notified twenty-four hours before a connection is to be made to insure proper inspection on the following day. All notification of this kind shall include permit number and the location of the connection.
(h) The Administrator or his authorized representative shall inspect and approve any construction, sewer opening, tap or connection referred to in this chapter before backfilling begins. If the construction is backfilled or otherwise covered before such inspection, the Administrator may require the fill or cover to be removed at the expense of the permittee or person making such tap. Such expense if not otherwise paid, shall be an obligation under the bond provided for in Section 926.06.
(i) Each person who makes openings, taps or connections with or on constructed sewers or installs septic tanks or drives upon or over public streets or property, shall keep in repair and good order the whole of the work executed by him, until the same is accepted by the Administrator or his authorized representative, which acceptance shall be given in writing, and if deemed necessary by the Administrator may be deferred until the expiration of one year after the completion of the work.
(j) In case it is necessary to connect a drain or sewer pipe with a public sewer or drainage facility when no junction is left in the same, the new connection with the public sewer or drainage facility shall be made only when a representative of the Village, designated by the Administrator, is present to see the whole of the work performed.
(k) In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater carried by such a drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
(l) The Village shall maintain and repair house sewer laterals lying within established easements and within the right-of-way limits of dedicated public streets and alleys, except when and where prohibited wastes of nonwastewater characteristics have been allowed to enter the same and which contribute to the obstruction of flow within the sewer lateral and render repairs or maintenance necessary.
(m) Before the Village shall undertake maintenance of or repairs of any such house lateral, the property owner shall notify the Village of the stoppage who will in return require a licensed sewer cleaning contractor to locate the exact location of the stoppage and determine if the stoppage is within the Village right of way or established easement.
(n) For grease, oil, petroleum products, inorganic material and other materials as listed in the Ohio Building Code such as sand, grit, etc., interceptors shall be provided when in the opinion of the Administrator, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease in excessive amounts, as specified in Section 926.08(b) or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters of dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Administrator and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates, and means of disposal which are subject to review by the Administrator. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by the owner(s)' personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(o) In those cases where the Village constructs and installs a sanitary sewer at its cost where the sewer has been demanded and required by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or Board of Health regulation, the sanitary sewer connection permit fee for each abutting property owner shall be equal to the pro rata cost of installation of the sewer.
(Ord. 5-1991. Passed 1-17-91.)