No person, company, or corporation shall connect its property with any opening or tap into any of the public sewers of the city without first having obtained a permit to do so from the Finance Officer, and the payment of a sum in an amount set by the City Council and on file at the office of the City Finance Officer, plus all costs from main to lot line to the Finance Officer as a fee for permission to connect to the said sewer and inspection of sewer. No permit shall be granted to connect any property with any public sewer in this city, or any connection therewith, until the applicant for the same shall agree to comply with the terms and conditions of this title. The owner shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation or the constructing or repairing of a sewer.
(Prior Code, § 10-1-1)