No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereto without first obtaining a permit as hereinafter provided.
Application for a permit shall be made to the county before the commencement of any sewer construction.
Upon obtaining a permit, the applicant shall forthwith register a copy thereof at the office of the Village Clerk. The permit shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
In addition to the requirement of § 197-9, an applicant may be required to post a bond in such amount as determined by the Superintendent that will properly indemnify the Village for any damage that may be done to the public sewers, public ways or any public easements.
No permit shall be valid for the construction and installation of a building sewer unless the same is registered as provided in § 197-9.
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 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 Superintendent, 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 of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, the Onondaga County Sanitary Code and other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
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 New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, the Onondaga County Sanitary Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village. All such connections shall be made gas tight 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 Superintendent shall have the right to inspect any construction at any stage of such construction. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent.
All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Village.