A. Permit Required: No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the director of public works.
B. Classes Of Permits: There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits:
1. For residential and commercial service; and
2. For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
C. Application: In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the engineer.
D. Permit And Inspection Fee: A permit and inspection fee shall be levied as determined from time to time by the city council.
E. Costs And Expenses: All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
F. Indemnification: 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.
G. Separate Sewer Required; Exception: A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except, where one building stands at the rear of another on the same lot. The building sewer from 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.
H. Old Building Sewers: Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the director of public works, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
I. Materials: The building sewer shall be constructed of materials as allowed by the plumbing codes and regulations of the city of Sidney and the state of Montana.
J. Specifications: The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the city and the state of Montana. In the absence of suitable code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF manual of practice no. 9 shall apply.
K. Elevation; Location; Slope: Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet (3') of any bearing wall which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
L. Lifters: In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
M. Surface Runoff: No person shall make connections of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer unless such connection is approved by the engineer and the Montana state department of health for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
N. Compliance Required: The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the city and the state of Montana, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF manual of practice no. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the director of public works before installation. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the "Y" branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location.
O. Inspection; Connection: The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the director of public works when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the engineer or his representative.
P. Excavations: 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. (Ord. 552, 6-2-2014)