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 1-8-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002]
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: for residential and commercial service, and 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 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 residential
or commercial building sewer permit and an industrial building sewer
permit shall be paid to the Commission at the time the application
is filed.
[Amended 1-8-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002]
All costs and expenses incidental 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. At the time the application for a permit is made, the applicant shall submit proof that he has obtained liability insurance, as provided in Chapter
79, §
79-4A,
B and
C, of the Code of the Village of Shortsville, New York. The owner shall pay a tapping fee to the Village to offset the cost of tapping into the Village sewer line. Said tapping fee shall be paid at the time of the issuance of the permit.
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 front building may be extended to the
rear building, and the whole considered as one building sewer, but
the Village does not and will not assume any obligations or responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any single connection aforementioned.
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 New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the
Village. In the absence of the code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the Water
Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) 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 unless such connection is approved by the Superintendent for
purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
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 or other applicable rules
and regulations of the Village or the procedures set forth in appropriate
specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9.
All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified
by proper testing. 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 and
testing shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his representative.
All excavations for a 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 Village.