No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with
or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public or private building
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Superintendent.
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 Town 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 the same 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 in such
cases may be extended to the rear building, and the whole considered
as one sewer connection. At no time shall two private properties utilize
the same building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are approved by the Superintendent and meet all requirements
of this chapter. All costs and expenses incident to inspection, examination
and documentation of old building sewers and any repairs required
to meet the requirements of this chapter shall be borne by the owner.
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 building and plumbing code or other applicable
rules and regulations, or specifications, of the Town. In the absence
of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and
procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the State Building
Construction Codes, the American Society for Testing and Materials,
Water Environment Federation and American Society of Civil Engineers
shall apply.
Whenever physically possible, the building sewer shall be brought
to the building at an elevation below the first floor or, in the case
of existing sewers, the building drain invert shall be set at an elevation
to provide gravity connection. In all buildings in which any building
drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sanitary sewer,
sanitary sewage carried by such building drains shall be lifted by
means approved by the Superintendent and discharged to the building
sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the New York State Department of State,
Division of Building Standards and Codes, or other applicable rules,
regulations and specifications of the Town or the procedures set forth
in appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing
and Materials and the Water Environment Federation. All such connections
shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before
installation.