[Adopted 11-5-69 by Ord. No. 129-69]
The owners of property along the line of sewers constructed in the city shall connect their houses and other buildings therewith within thirty (30) days after notification to make such connection.
Before any building or premises shall be connected with the public sewer drain or pipe leading thereto, the owner thereof shall obtain a written permit issued by the Department of Public Works authorizing such connection to be made. Blank forms of application for permits will be furnished by the Department of Public Works.
Every application for a sewer connection permit shall be signed by the owner of the building or premises or by his authorized agent; shall state the name and address of the owner or applicant, describe the buildings sufficiently to identify the same and specify by a ground plan or otherwise the points in the wall of the building where it is desired that connection shall be made.
A. 
The Department of Public Works may return, suspend action on or reject any application for a sewer connection permit for correction in form or substance, or for any other reason satisfactory to it, and shall grant permits in proper cases.
B. 
The agents and employees of the Department shall have the right to enter the buildings or premises mentioned in any application whenever necessary to examine the same or to supervise any work thereon.
A. 
A fee, at the rate provided in Chapter 88, Fees, shall be paid for each sewer connection permit that may be issued. The permit so issued shall permit the holder thereof, his servant, agent or employee, to make a connection with any municipally owned or controlled sewer or drain from the curbline of the street to the house sewer or drain. In the event that the service connection has not been heretofore made by the city so as to be a charge upon the property by way of assessment, in addition to the fee for such permit, the applicant shall pay to the city the cost of constructing such service connection from the main sewer to the curbline of the roadway, the sum indicated in Chapter 88, Fees, for the following areas:
[Amended 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]
(1) 
For each six-inch diameter tap and soil pipe service connection to the sanitary sewer.
(2) 
For each six-inch diameter tap and tile or concrete pipe service connection to the storm sewer.
(3) 
For each eight-inch diameter tap and tile or concrete pipe service connection to the storm sewer.
(4) 
For each ten-inch diameter tap and tile or concrete pipe service connection to the storm sewer.
B. 
All the work of installing a sewerage service connection within a roadway area shall be performed by and under the supervision of the Department of Public Works.
Every sewer connection permit shall be issued upon the receipt of the payment of the fees and charges required by this Article. It shall be the duty of the Department of Public Works to keep a record of the permits so issued. The Department of Public Works may for satisfactory cause revoke a permit. Every application and permit shall be subject to the regulations and conditions created and imposed by this Article, and no applicant or person to whom a permit is granted or his successors in interest shall have the right to claim or demand any damages against the city, its agents or servants in consequence of the refusal or revocation of a permit or of delay in acting on any application or of making any connection within the limits of the street, or because of the cutting off of a connection under the provisions of this Article. A permit may, at the discretion of the Department of Public Works, embrace special provisions and conditions as to the use of flush tanks, size of pipe, method of construction, mode of use and similar details.
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No permit shall be granted to connect with the public sewer any building not provided either with a ventilating pipe extending without trap or other obstruction from the house sewer to a point at least two (2) feet above the roofline of the building or with a trap on the house sewer, in which latter case a ventilating pipe shall be constructed from the sewer side of the trap to a point two (2) feet above the roofline, and a fresh air inlet shall be introduced on the house side of the trap.
B. 
No permit shall be granted to connect any cesspool or privy vault with the public sewer.
C. 
No rainwater leader or pipe for the drainage of any cellar or for the conveyance of stormwater or surface water shall be connected, directly or indirectly, with the sewer. Where underdrains exist beneath the public sewer, permits for connecting cellar drainage received only through agricultural tile laid about the walls or foundation of the building may, under proper restrictions, be issued. No storm- or surface water shall be connected, directly or indirectly, with a sewer or underdrain, but may be conducted to the storm sewer when one exists in the street passing the premises.
[Amended 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]
If it shall appear that a building not provided with ventilating apparatus as mentioned in § 175-7 is connected with the public sewer, that any privy vault or cesspool is connected with the public sewer or that any building or premises have been connected with the public sewer without a permit or in violation of this Article or upon failure to pay the cost of connection between the sewer and the curb as provided by this Article, it shall be the duty of the Department of Public Works to cause the connection to be cut off. Upon compliance by the owner with the provisions of this Article and payment of the sum provided in Chapter 88, Fees, to the city the Department of Public Works shall restore such connection.
No person shall put any harmful substance in any sanitary sewer.
All public sewers and drains shall be constructed and made under the instructions and supervision of the City Engineer. All repairs for such sewers and drains and all connections made therewith shall be under the general supervision of the City Engineer.
The manner of opening into any of the public sewers or drains and the form, size and materials of which connections therewith shall be composed shall be prescribed by the City Engineer.
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The Department of Public Works shall be the enforcement authority as to matters falling under the operation of this Article and shall appoint and employ the necessary inspectors and exercise the powers mentioned in this Article.
B. 
The Department of Public Works may maintain an action in the name of the city against any property owner to recover any payment that shall become due or to enforce any of the regulations under this Article.
C. 
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.) or imprisonment for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.
[Added 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]