(a) No owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of any lot or land located within the City shall connect his premises to a public sewer or make repairs or a removal thereof until a permit therefor has been obtained from the Director of Inspections who shall keep a record of all such permits issued by him and shall cause such connections to be inspected at the time they are made. The fees to be charged for such connection permits are to cover the cost of issuance and cost of inspection and are those set forth in Section 1315.05 of the Building Code.
(b) Application for a permit shall be made by a licensed sewer builder on the prescribed form and shall include intelligble plans and specifications of the work to be done, showing location and character. Any misrepresentation in a permit application shall constitute sufficient grounds for revocation of the applicant's license. Permits shall be kept on the job at all times while work is in progress.
(c) No sewer, or system of sewers, shall be constructed which connects either directly or indirectly to sanitary sewerage facilities controlled by the City until the owner of the sewer, or system of sewers, can demonstrate to the City that quality of the wastewater to be conveyed by this sewer can meet the requirements of this chapter.
(d) No permit shall be issued to connect a house sewer to a public sewer if the connection or any portion thereof is in, under or on a lot not owned by the person whose house is to be connected and if no recorded easement exists authorizing the connection on such lot.
(e) A separate and individual sewer connection shall be made to each building. No connection shall serve more than one building unless specific authority is given by the Director of Engineering.
(f) No permit to connect to or tap a public sewer shall be issued if the sewage to be discharged would, in the opinion of the Director of Engineering, overload any public sewer or downstream facilities including pump stations and/or treatment plants.
(g) When, in the opinion of the Director of Engineering, it is necessary to connect a building sewer to a public sewer at a point where no connection facility has been provided, application for the public sewer tap shall be submitted and a separate fee for each tap shall be paid by the applicant before the permit is issued for the construction of the building sewer.
(h) All tapping of public sewers shall be made by City employees, or by a licensed sewer contractor, in the presence and to the satisfaction of an inspector acting under the authority of the Director of Engineering. Sewer tappers shall be licensed by the City pursuant to the terms of Chapter 1321 of the Building Code.
(i) No person other than an authorized employee of the City shall in any way tamper with, remove or otherwise move or disturb any street manhole cover of a City sewer or sewer opening without first obtaining permission from the Director of Engineering.
(j) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any natural outlet or storm sewer any sanitary sewage or other polluted waters. Effluent from privately owned individual household disposal devices shall not be discharged to storm sewers.
(k) The Director of Engineering or any employee of the City designated by him may enter on any lot or parcel of land and open any test tee thereon to determine whether or not any sewer or sewer connection is blocked on the lot, parcel of land or in the public street in front of the same, and to determine whether the sewer connections are connected to the proper sewer.
(Ord. 2012-128. Passed 12-6-12.)