No person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening
into, use, alter, disturb or discharge into any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent
of Sewers or Town Board where designated.
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting a public
sewage system or building sewer to the Town sewage system shall be
borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify that sewer district in which the property
is located for any loss or damage that might be occasioned by the
installation and connection of such public sewage system or 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 a separate interior lot and no 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 each shall be considered a separate unit for the purpose
of sewage service charges.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction with new
buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing by
the Superintendent of Sewers, to meet all requirements of this Part
3 and any other specifications adopted by the Superintendent of Sewers.
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, sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted
by a method approved by the Superintendent of Sewers and discharged
to a gravity-flow building sewer.
No person shall make a 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 to a public sewer.
All excavations for building sewer excavations shall comply
with all federal, state and local safety regulations and 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 work shall be restored in a manner
satisfactory to the Superintendent of Sewers and appropriate municipal
authorities.
Before any building whose building sewer is connected to a public
sewer is demolished, the owner thereof shall conform to the requirements
established by the Superintendent of Sewers. The cutoff or plugging
of the building sewer shall be done with the permission and under
the supervision of the Superintendent of Sewers.