No person shall be permitted to perform the work of tapping and making connection with any public sewer, or cause same to be done, without first having procured a license as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to perform the work of tapping and making connections with a public sewer, or who engages in the business of sewer tapping and making connections with public sewers, shall make application in writing for such license to the Director of Public Utilities. The Director of Public Utilities shall have the authority to establish rules and regulations as the Director deems necessary to establish the qualifications and requirements to be met by such applicants for a sewer tapper's license.
The Division of Sewer and Drainage Services shall examine the qualifications of each applicant for such license and determine if the qualified applicant meets the requirements to properly do the work of tapping and making connections with public sewers. Upon the recommendation of the Division of Sewer and Drainage Services, the Director shall grant a license to such applicant, subject to all applicable laws. Such license shall authorize the licensee to tap and make connections with public sewers under the Toledo Municipal Code and laws of the State of Ohio, provided that such license shall not be issued to such applicant nor become effective until such applicant files with the Department of Public Utilities a bond in the sum of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) with sureties and conditioned on the applicant's promise and representation that the applicant will indemnify, defend and save harmless the City from any and all loss or damage that may be either directly or indirectly occasioned by said applicant's tapping and making connection with any public sewer, or making of the necessary excavations; and such applicant shall also provide satisfactory evidence that the applicant has presently in force and for the duration of the license a contractor's liability policy protecting the owner of the property, the City and the general public. Said applicant shall also carry worker's compensation insurance and unemployment insurance, where either or both are applicable, subject to the approval of the Director of Public Utilities.
Should the bond or the contractor's liability insurance for any reason become of no effect, then the license issued to such applicant shall immediately become void.
Such licensee, in making openings in any street, alley, public way or other public place, shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of the ordinances of the City now in force or which may be hereafter adopted and/or amended, regulating such openings, and shall specifically be governed by the most current specifications of the Division of Sewer and Drainage Services regarding "openings in the public right of way."
If the licensee violates any provisions of this chapter, ordinances of the City, laws of the State of Ohio, rules, regulations and standards of the Director of Public Utilities, or the conditions of the license relative to the opening of streets, or other public places, or tapping and making connections with public sewers, the Director of Public Utilities shall have the power to suspend or revoke the license in the manner provided by Section 927.15.
The fee for a sewer tapper's license shall be determined by the Director of Public Utilities.
(Ord. 292-10. Passed 6-22-10.)