(a) Upon completion of all street improvements as required by the ordinance by virtue of which the plat of a newly created subdivision is conditionally accepted by the City, except the installation of public sidewalks, and after the City Engineer has so certified to the Director of Public Safety-Service, the Director shall cause the street sewers in the subdivision to be inspected by a City inspector to ascertain whether such sewers or any of them are blocked or partially blocked by dirt, lumber, bricks, or other foreign material, or damaged, and report the result of his inspection to the Director of Public Safety-Service. The Director of Public Safety-Service shall then order the Sewers Division to clean all sewers which the report shows blocked or partially blocked, to remove the cause of such blocking, therefrom and to repair any part of such sewers which have been damaged.
(b) Deposit Required Prior to Recording. The cost of making the sewer inspection and the cleaning and repairing of such sewers by the City as provided in Section 914.04
shall be paid by the owner of the subdivision, who shall deposit with the Finance Director an amount of money sufficient, in the estimate of the City Engineer, to defray the cost of the inspection and possible cleaning and repairing.
The deposit shall be made before the Clerk of Council shall proceed to record the plat of the subdivision with the County Recorder, as provided in the plat acceptance ordinance.
(c) Work Rates; Charges Deducted from Deposits. The cost of the City inspection as set forth herein shall be computed on the same basis as is charged for inspection of the street improvements as they are being installed. The rate charged for such inspection and the cleaning and removing of obstruction from the sewers and any repairs shall be as set forth in Section 1321.03
and 1321.05
of the Codified Ordinances. Charges shall be deducted from the required deposit. If insufficient to pay any such charges, the subdivision owner shall immediately pay such additional amount as is necessary to to pay all costs involved.
(d) Photographing of Sewers.
(1) The Director of Public Safety-Service is hereby directed to, prior to final approval of any newly installed sewer system and/or reconstructed sewer, require that any and all contractors cause to be made two (2) sets of photographs of the entire sewer system installed, both sanitary and storm, one (1) set at the completion of all mains and the second set at the completion of all home laterals, showing thereby, that the sewer system has been constructed upon sound engineering standards and that the system is free of any and all accumulations of foreign substance and nature and that the passage and flow of sewage and storm water are free and clear.
(2) Upon inspection of such photographs, and if satisfied that such sewer is free and clear of all foreign substance, is of sound workmanship and that there is nothing present to prevent the free flow of sewage and storm waters, the Director of Public Safety-Service is hereby authorized to approve same as a final inspection, placing in safekeeping all photographs for future reference.
(3) The cost of such photographing and photographs shall be entirely paid for by the contractor or developer of such land and/or sewer system, and such photographs shall remain the property of the City.
(Ord. 73-12. Passed 12-10-12.)