(A) No unauthorized person shall uncover, connect with or open, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Public Works Supervisor.
(B) (1) There shall be three classes of building sewer permits:
(a) Residential;
(b) Commercial; and
(c) Industrial.
(2) In any case, the owner or their agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Public Works Supervisor. A permit and inspection fee shall be paid to the City Clerk pursuant to a fee schedule adopted by resolution by the City Council at the time the application is filed. Any application which is returned for additional information may be subject to a resubmission fee pursuant to the same fee schedule.
(C) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(D) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; exceptions shall be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Mayor or other official; but the City does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single connection or failure of said connection.
(E) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and testing by the Public Works Supervisor, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(F) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of suitable code provisions, the appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9, or current edition, shall apply.
(G) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(H) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff, or groundwater to building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(I) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9, or current edition. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Public Works Supervisor before installation.
(J) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Public Works Supervisor when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the Public Works Supervisor or their representative.
(K) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
(Ord. 369, passed 4-1-2018, § 4.02.040; Ord. 2023-2, passed 2-21-2023)