§ 51.170 OFFICE CREATED.

   As provided in § 52.001 of this code of ordinances, the Superintendent of Public Works may appoint an employee to serve as Superintendent of Sewers.

(Prior Code, § 51.130)

§ 51.171 DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWERS.

   It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Sewers:

   (A)   To examine and approve plans and specifications for sewer construction work;

   (B)   To issue permits for such work upon the fulfillment by the applicant of the provisions of this chapter therefor;

   (C)   To collect fees as provided herein and to deliver all fees collected to the Treasurer within 15 days after the collection of any such fee or fees;

   (D)   To inspect sewers, including house sanitary connections and house storm drains, and the materials to be used therein;

   (E)   To conduct tests thereon;

   (F)   To issue certificates of approval;

   (G)   To keep records of actions taken, and examinations, inspections and tests made, and of permits and certificates issued;

   (H)   To make a monthly report of his or her acts and doings to the Board of Trustees; and

   (I)   To advise the public, when requested in the matter of these regulations relating to the Sewerage System.

(Prior Code, § 51.131)

§ 51.172 INSPECTION; RIGHT OF ENTRY.

   (A)   Duly authorized employees of the village and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state’s Environmental Protection Agency bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The village or its representatives shall have no authority to inquire into any processes, including metallurgical, chemical, oil refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the sewers or waterway or facilities for waste treatment.

   (B)   While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (A) above, the village or duly authorized employees of the village and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state’s Environmental Protection Agency shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the village employees and the village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by village employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 51.071(H) of this chapter.

   (C)   The village and other duly authorized employees of the village bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the village holds a duly- negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewage works lying within the easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on the easement, shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.

(Prior Code, § 51.132) (Ord. 88-108, passed 9-28-1988)

§ 51.173 VIOLATION; REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE.

   (A)   The permit or license of a sewer builder shall become void in the village when he or she shall refuse or neglect within three days time after notification thereof in writing to make such necessary corrections to the sewer work either in workmanship or material as shall have been ordered by the Superintendent of Public Works, or if such person shall permit the use of his or her name by another person or persons for the purpose of obtaining a permit or license to do sewer work.

   (B)   Any sewer builder who shall construct or install any sewer work in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and any builder, contractor, architect or designer designing, drawing or issuing plans for or having charge of such sewer work or who shall permit it to be so constructed or installed shall be liable to the penalties provided or imposed in this code.

(Prior Code, § 51.133)

§ 51.999 PENALTY.

   Whoever violates any provision of this chapter for which another penalty is not already herein provided shall be subject to the penalty provisions of § 10.99 of this code of ordinances.