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 County.
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 County from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
Each mobile home and/or trailer unit used for residential or
commercial purposes, having domestic water and/or sanitary facilities
therein, shall be considered a separate and independent building drain
and building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the County, to
meet all 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 connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or
other applicable rules and regulations of the County. All connections
of building sewers into the public sewer shall be performed by persons
authorized by the County. The prescribed procedures and materials
must be approved by the County before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
County when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection
to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision
of the County or its representatives.
All excavations for 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 County.