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BUILDING SEWER INSTALLATION
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent.
(Prior Code, § 3-228) Penalty, see § 53.999
(A) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) For residential and commercial service; and
(2) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
(B) In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the municipality. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee of $10 shall be paid to the municipality at the time the application is filed.
(C) In addition, the customer, upon approval of his or her application for sewer service, shall pay to the municipality a $150 tap fee which shall compensate the municipality for the expense of processing his or her application and tapping the sewer main.
(Prior Code, § 3-229) (Ord. 843, passed 6-14-2005)
All costs and expense incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the municipality from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(Prior Code, § 3-230)
(A) The Municipal Sewer Department may require the owner of any property which is within the municipality and connected to the public sewers or drains to repair or replace any connection line which serves the owner’s property and is broken, clogged or otherwise in need of repair or replacement. The property owner’s duty to repair or replace such a connection line shall include those portions upon the owner’s property and those portions upon public property or easements up to and including the point of junction with the public main.
(B) (1) The Municipal Clerk shall give the property owner notice by registered letter or certified mail, directed to the last known address of such owner or the agent of such owner, directing the repair or replacement of such connection line.
(2) If, within 30 days of mailing, such notice the property owner fails or neglects to cause such repairs or replacements to be made, the Utilities Superintendent may cause such work to be done and assess the cost upon the property served by such connection.
(Prior Code, § 3-231)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 18-1748
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the municipality does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(Prior Code, § 3-232)
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