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 Village
Engineer.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: one for
residential and commercial service and one 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 Village
Engineer. A permit and inspection fee as set forth from time to time
by resolution of the Board of Trustees for a residential, commercial
or industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the Village at
the time the application is filed.
All costs and expenses 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 Village Engineer, to meet all the requirements of this Part
2.
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
Village Engineer when the building sewer is ready for inspection and
connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Village Engineer or his representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately
sheeted and 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 Engineer.