No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or openings into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person.
A. 
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) 
For residential and commercial service.
(2) 
For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
B. 
In either case, the owner or the owner's 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 Sewer Inspector. At the time the application is filed, a permit and inspection fee shall be charged in such amount as the Municipal Board may from time to time establish for such purpose. Such permit shall be kept at the site of the work and be available for inspection by any officer or agent of the municipality. Any applicant for a permit shall be required to furnish a sufficient insurance policy or bond protecting the municipality against any liability for injuries to persons or property or to indemnify the municipality against any loss or damage which it may sustain. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the issuance of the permit shall be subject to such further requirements as may be required by any contracting municipality. The Municipal Board may designate such contracting municipality as its agent for the purpose of issuing permits.
C. 
The Municipal Board or its duly designated agent may revoke such permit upon written notification to the person to whom it was granted if the work is not being done in compliance with the requirements of this chapter and any applicable rules and regulations or is not being performed in a competent manner or is not being completed within a reasonable time after the commencement thereof or is endangering or may reasonably endanger persons or property or upon such other grounds as the Municipal Board or its duly designated agent may deem to be justifiable.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer and the repair, maintenance and replacement thereof 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 any such installation, connection, repair, maintenance and replacement and any work done in connection therewith.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except that 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.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing the pipe and the connection thereof to the public sewer, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes[1] or other applicable rules or regulations of the municipality and those contained in Chapter 348, Water and Sewers, of the Code of the City of Ithaca, New York, or other applicable laws, rules and regulations of said city, as the same may be from time to time amended as they apply to sewer services, and, in addition, when the contracting municipality is the Village of Cayuga Heights or any other contracting municipality, any additional requirements contained in any duly adopted ordinance or law of said municipality.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 146, Building Construction.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes[1] or other applicable rules or regulations of the municipality or the procedures set forth in the appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials and Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Sewer Superintendent before installation.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 146, Building Construction.
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 applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person and, in the case of a contracting municipality, the authorized person of said municipality when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of said authorized person.
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 municipality and to any other municipality having jurisdiction and control of said highway.