(a) No person shall install septic tanks or shall tap, open or make connections with any sanitary or combined sewer within the Village or cause the same to be done without first having procured the proper license to do so and as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to install septic tanks shall do so in accordance with current rules and regulations of the Summit County Health Department. Any person desiring 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 Administrator. The Administrator shall examine or cause to be examined the qualifications of such applicant for such license and shall grant a license if the applicant is found to be qualified therefor and complies with all other requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 11-1999. Passed 3-2-99.)
(b) The applicant shall have a minimum of four years of acceptable experience in the installation of septic tanks and construction of sewer lines. At least two years of this experience shall be as a foreman or field superintendent over a sewer construction crew, or equivalent experience. The other two years' experience shall be as a pipe layer or as an operator of sewer trenching equipment, such as a crane or backhoe, or equivalent experience. An applicant with less number of years experience may be acceptable, if deemed qualified in all aspects by the Administrator.
(c) The applicant shall possess all equipment necessary in the judgment of the Administrator or his 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 tap, open and make connections with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities under the provisions of the ordinances of the Village and laws of the State, provided that such license shall not be issued nor become effective until such applicant files with the Administrator a five thousand dollar ($5,000) performance bond and general liability insurance certificates in accordance with current Village criteria. The licensee or individual homeowner shall also provide that it shall indemnify and save harmless the Village from all loss or damage that may be either directly or indirectly occasioned by his opening, tapping or making connection with any public sewer or drain, or drainage facility, failure to properly perform the work or any work incident thereto.
(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 Village now in force or which may be hereafter adopted, regulating excavations. If the licensee violates any of the ordinances of the Village or laws of the State relative to the excavating of streets or other public places, or the opening, tapping and/or connecting with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities, the Administrator shall have the power to suspend the license for such time as he may deem proper, or revoke the same as he may deem appropriate in the public interest.
(f) By acceptance of a sewer tapper's license, the applicant assumes responsibility for restoring any pavement, curb, sidewalk, driveway, 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 Administrator or his 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 two men on the job: one operator of trenching equipment and one man as a pipe layer.
(h) Fraudulent statements or other misrepresentations made by the applicant in his application for a license, or failure to show adequate performance in installing septic tanks or in laying of a sewer line, or failure to abide by any of the foregoing provisions, shall be grounds for the denial or revocation of the license by the Administrator.
(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 provide septic tank cleaning or repair services, shall allow his name to be used by another for the purpose of obtaining permits, or of doing any work under the license issued to him.
(Ord. 5-1991. Passed 1-17-91.)