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 Sewer Inspector or other authorized person.
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: a) for residential and commercial service, and b) for service
to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the
owner or his 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.
A.Â
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.
B.Â
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
ground 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 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, materials of construction
of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of 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 code or other applicable rules or regulations
of:
A.Â
The municipality; and
B.Â
Those contained in Chapter 245 of the Municipal 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
C.Â
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.
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 or regulations of the municipality
or the procedures set forth in the appropriate specifications of the
ASTM and WPCF 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.
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.
