[Adopted as Sec. 13.03 of the former Municipal Codebook]
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 City Building Inspector.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential and commercial service, and for industrial wastes service. In either case, the owner or the owner's agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Department. Industrial waste dischargers shall also pay a special permit and inspection fee to the City at the time the application is filed sufficient to cover City engineering review expenses.
There is hereby levied and assessed upon each lot or parcel of land within the City a contribution-in-aid-of-construction (CAC) charge as recommended by the Public Works Department. All applicants for building sewer permits, following adoption of this article, shall be assessed a CAC charge. Current CAC charges shall be as approved by the Common Council and from time to time amended by resolution:
A. 
A CAC charge for one- and two-family residences.
B. 
The CAC charge for multifamily (three units or larger) residences shall be per living unit.
C. 
A CAC charge for nonresidential customer discharging less than 500 gallons per day on an average daily basis.
D. 
A CAC charge for nonresidential customers discharging more than 500 gallons per day, but less than 1,000 gallons per day, on an average daily basis.
E. 
The Department shall establish the CAC charge for nonresidential customers discharging more than an average of 1,000 gallons per day, or discharging wastewater having any pollutant concentration greater than normal concentration wastewater, on a case-by case basis.
F. 
The CAC charge shall be payable prior to issuance of the building sewer permit. Should the wastewater volume or characteristics not be sufficiently known at the time of application for the CAC charge determination, an initial CAC payment shall be made based on estimated volume and wastewater characteristics. An adjustment to the CAC charge shall be made on the first anniversary of sewer system use based upon metered water sales and measured wastewater quality, where applicable. Any CAC undercharge shall be immediately due and payable to the City, whereas any CAC overcharge shall be refunded to the user.
G. 
Special connection fees.
(1) 
A special connection fee (CAC charge) shall be payable for the connection of buildings within the area served by gravity flow into the Hay Creek Lift Station (No. 9). This special CAC charge shall be as approved by the Common Council and from time to time amended by resolution.
(a) 
Special CAC charge for buildings on lots less than one acre.
(b) 
Special CAC charge for buildings on lots more than one acre.
(2) 
Homes existing within the gravity flow area at the time of enactment of this article shall pay the lesser charge regardless of acreage.
A. 
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 Ch. SPS 382, Design, Construction, Installation, Supervision, Maintenance and Inspection of Plumbing, Wis. Adm. Code, and other applicable rules and regulations of the City.
B. 
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 at the owner's expense.
C. 
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found to be in suitable condition and meet all requirements of this chapter upon examination and testing by the Building Inspector. Capping and marking of abandoned sanitary sewer service shall be the responsibility of the owner. The Department shall be notified of the location and marking of each abandoned sewer service.
D. 
New connections from sources that include inflow and/or infiltration are prohibited.
E. 
All excavations for building sewer installations 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.
F. 
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Building Inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Building Inspector or its duly authorized agent.
G. 
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. 
Every user shall permit the Building Inspector or its duly authorized agent, at all reasonable hours of the day, to enter its premises or building to examine the pipes and fixtures and the manner in which the drains and sewer connections operate; and it must at all times, frankly and without concealment, answer all questions asked it relative to its use, all in accordance with § 196.171, Wis. Stats., and this chapter.
B. 
The City or duly authorized employees or agents are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes that have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. The industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
C. 
While performing the necessary inspection on private properties referred to in Subsection A above, the City, or duly authorized employees or agents of the City, shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises or established by the company, the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the City employees, and the City shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by City employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in this Code.
D. 
The City and other duly authorized employees of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
The cost of any sewerage system work or improvement and the cost of required fees may be levied at approved rates and collected by special assessments upon property in accordance with the provisions of § 66.0703, Wis. Stats.