No person shall clean a building sewer and connections or use any sewer cleaning machine without first having procured a license in the manner hereinafter provided, except that an owner may clean the building sewer that lies within the owner's property without first obtaining a sewer cleaner's license. Subject to the foregoing exception, any persons desiring to clean or remove stoppage in building sewers shall make application in writing for a sewer cleaner's 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 cleaning building sewers and connections. 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 clean or remove stoppages in building 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 ten thousand dollars ($10,000) 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 cleaning a building sewer and connections.
Should the bond for any reason become of no effect, then the license issued to such applicant shall immediately become void.
Such licensee shall not make any excavation on private or public property, or in any way alter or remove any plumbing fixtures, unless in all respects governed by the provisions of the ordinances of the City now in force or which may hereafter be adopted and/or amended. If the licensee violates any provisions of this chapter or applicable 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 cleaning building sewers and connections of the removal of stoppages therefrom, 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 cleaner's license shall be determined by the Director of Public Utilities.
(Ord. 292-10. Passed 6-22-10.)