(a) No authorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof except under the provisions of this section.
(b) Every person desiring a permit to make a connection with, open or tap any public sewer or drain shall first make application to the Building Commissioner who shall consult his records with regard to the sewer or drain desired to be connected with, opened or tapped. If such connection, opening or tap can be made, the Building Commissioner shall give such applicant the exact location where the connection, opening or tap is to be made, or if necessary shall cause a stake to be set on the premises where the connection, opening or tap is to be made. The Building Commissioner shall give to the applicant a permit stating that permission is granted to connect with, open or tap such sewer or drain and also state in such permit the name of the street and the abutting lot number. All permits shall be issued by the Building Commissioner. Permits for connection to the sewer system will be issued dependent on the Building Commissioner's determination that there is or will be capacity available in all downstream sewers, lift stations and/or force mains.
(c) For each permit issued by the Building Commissioner, a charge shall be made as hereinafter provided. A connection charge shall be made for all new buildings, major additions or alterations to buildings causing increased sewage discharge, any land use causing the discharge of sewage into the system and any change in sewage flow distribution ordered by the Building Commissioner when the redistribution of sewage flow requires the construction of a new trunk line sewer and a new service connection thereto. The connection charge shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each connection on new construction and forty dollars ($40.00) for existing buildings involving plumbing charges, septic tank collapse, etc.
(d) The Building Commissioner shall devise and procure the permit forms, such permits to be consecutively numbered. The Building Commissioner shall turn over to the City Treasurer, in the manner prescribed by law, all funds received as a result of the connection charges which will be credited to the Sewer Fund of the City.
(e) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. The owner shall hold the City harmless from any loss or damage that may in any way result from or be occasioned by such installation or connection.
(f) 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 building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the City does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(g) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Building Commissioner, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(h) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(Ord. 11-1977. Passed 4-11-77.)
(i) No connection or lateral extending to private property from a public sewer or drain shall be constructed except in accordance with specifications issued by the Building Commissioner. All sanitary and storm cleanouts shall be capped with a water tight seal. The cap shall consist of a PVC EZ Set Systems Locating Plug (or approved equal). The cleanout cap shall be engraved “STORM” or “SANITARY” to designate the appropriate utility. Clean outs located in driveways, turnarounds, or public sidewalks shall be capped with a traffic rated cover. PVC caps are not permitted in these areas.
(Ord. 53-2009. Passed 6-8-09.)
(Ord. 53-2009. Passed 6-8-09.)
(j) All connections, tappings or openings shall be made under the supervision of the Building Commissioner. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Building Commissioner when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer.
(k) All excavations for building sewer installation 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 City. All refilling of the excavation made for such connection shall be under the supervision of the Building Commissioner. (Ord. 11-1977. Passed 4-11-77.)