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.
[Amended 1-18-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994; 8-11-1997 by L.L. No.
4-1997]
The owner or his or her agent shall make application
on a special form furnished by the village. 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 for a sewer permit as set forth in the village
schedule of fees shall be paid to the village at the time the application
is filed.[1]
All costs and expense incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the village from any loss or damage that
may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the
building sewer.
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, the building sewer from the
front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole
considered as one building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer 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 code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the village. In the absence of
code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society for
Testing and Materials and Water Pollution Control Federation Manual
of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
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.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and
plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the village,
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be
made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures
and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall
be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his or her
representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation
shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights 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 village.
