No person, other than employees of the city or persons contracting to do work for the city shall construct or cause to be constructed, or alter or cause to be altered, any public sewer, lateral sewer, house connection or industrial connection sewer over six inches in diameter, sewerage pumping plant or other sewerage facility within the city where existing or proposed wastewater flows will discharge directly or indirectly to facilities of the city without first obtaining approval of sewerage construction plans from the Superintendent. The applicant shall submit to the Superintendent for approval, construction plans and the specifications and other details as required to describe fully the proposed sewerage facility. The plans shall have been prepared under the supervision of and shall be signed by an engineer of suitable training registered in the state. Plans for sewerage construction shall not be approved by the Superintendent for any facility which will convey industrial wastewater unless the dischargee has first obtained permission from the City Council. Plans for sewerage construction shall meet all design requirements as established from time to time by the Superintendent. Inspection of all sewerage construction under this section shall be made by city personnel in the manner described in § 52.13. An approval of plans for sewerage construction shall expire one year after date of approval unless construction has been initiated.
(1994 Code, § 13.20.160) (Ord. 78-105, passed - -1978)