A. 
No person shall install a building sewer nor connect a building sewer to the public sewer without first obtaining a permit therefor from the City Engineer and paying the required fee for such permit.
B. 
Application for such permit shall be made to the City Engineer, which application shall be accompanied by such plans, specifications and other information as the City Engineer shall require in order to determine that the building sewer and the proposed connection to the public sewer will comply with all provisions of this chapter.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner of the property being connected to the public sewer, and the owner shall be responsible for and shall reimburse the City for any loss or damage to the public sewer caused, directly or indirectly, by the installation of the 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 an interior lot, and it is not possible to make a direct connection from such rear building to the public sewer, in which event the building sewer connecting the front building to the public sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
An existing building sewer previously used to service a former building located on a particular property may be used to service a new building to be constructed on the property only if, upon examination and testing by the City Engineer, such building sewer is found to meet all the requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment, material for construction of a building sewer, and the method to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling, shall all conform to the requirements of the uniform construction codes[1] and all other applicable ordinances, rules and regulations of the City, and all other applicable provisions of law.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 167, Construction Codes, Uniform.
In any building in which the building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewerage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer, and each such connection shall be protected by a backflow preventive device which shall be maintained by the owner of the property.
No person shall connect any roof, downspout, foundation drain, areaway drain or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which is connected directly or indirectly to a public sewer unless prior approval therefor is granted by the City Engineer, which approval shall be granted only if necessary for proper and sanitary disposal of polluted surface drain water.
A. 
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to all applicable requirements of the uniform construction codes and all other applicable ordinances, rules and regulations and all other applicable provisions of law.
B. 
Unless otherwise provided herein, or in any other ordinance, rule, regulation or other provision of law, the procedures and specifications established by the American Society of Civil Engineers and Manual of Practice No. 9 of the Water Pollution Control Federation shall represent the standards to be applied with respect to such installations.
C. 
All connections between the building sewer and the public sewer shall be made gastight and watertight, which conditions shall be verified by testing.