A. 
Permit required. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the City Engineer.
B. 
Notification of new discharge. Any person proposing a new discharge into the system or a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that are being discharged into the system shall notify the enforcing officer at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
C. 
Classes of permits; application for permit.
(1) 
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) 
Residential and commercial service; and
(b) 
Establishments producing industrial wastes.
(2) 
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or any other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the enforcing officer.
D. 
Payment of costs; indemnification of City. 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 City 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 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 enforcing officer, to meet all requirements of this article.
A. 
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 building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the City.
B. 
In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and 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.
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 City, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be gastight under a pressure of five pounds per square inch. Tests shall be conducted by pressurizing the public system adjacent to the connection and the private sewer at the expense of the applicant for the building sewer permit. Leakage will be determined by the development of bubbles at joints when they are wiped with a soapy solution. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the enforcing officer before installation.
The applicant for the building permit shall notify the enforcing officer 48 hours prior to the time when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the enforcing officer or his representative.
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 City.
A. 
Building permits for all sewer connections must be signed by both the Engineering Division for the physical availability of the sewer, and the Sewer Commission for the available capacity of affected sewers, interceptors, combined sewer overflow facilities and the wastewater treatment facility.
B. 
Any project which requires a permit under the Massachusetts Sewer System Extension and Connection Permit Program, 314 CMR 7.00, must obtain such a permit prior to connection to the public sewer system. It is the responsibility of the developer to obtain all approvals for this permit prior to connection.
C. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be liable for penalties as provided by § 74-165
D. 
All projects shall be subject to site plan review for sewer and stormwater facilities.
A. 
Any project that is new construction connecting to the sewer system, or which is of sufficient discharge capacity and requires a state sewer extension permit pursuant to the Massachusetts Sewer System Extension and Connection Permit Program, 314 CMR 7.00, must contribute to the reduction of infiltration and inflow to the public sewer system. This may be in the form of a limited inflow/infiltration study, actual removal of inflow/infiltration by pipeline rehabilitation, combined sewer separation, storm drain installation, specific pipeline maintenance projects, a permit fee or other method as approved by the Sewer Commission and Department of Community Utilities.
B. 
Such inflow/infiltration reduction must establish an effective removal or planned removal of four times that volume proposed to that which is being introduced.
C. 
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approval of 314 CMR 7.00 permits is no longer required; the Sewer Commission shall continue to implement the program through the site plan approval process.
D. 
The inflow/infiltration permit fee shall be per Chapter A110. The fee schedule shall apply to all new residential, commercial and industrial construction or expansion.