The use of all public sewers in the City, except interceptors of the MWRA's wastewater system, shall be controlled by the City. No person shall, without prior authorization from the City, uncover, excavate over, block access to, make any connection with or opening into, alter, or disturb the City's wastewater system. No person shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance, or equipment which is part of the City's wastewater system.
A. 
All private sewers that connect and discharge wastewater to the City's sewerage system shall be subject to these wastewater regulations, but constructed, installed, maintained, repaired, and operated by their owners, at the owner's expense. Discharges from private sewers that connect to the City's sewerage system are also subject to MWRA regulations.
B. 
Repairs to private sewers in the City, including repairs required to comply with these wastewater regulations, shall be made by a licensed drain layer and may require permits and approvals as applicable by the City.
A. 
In unsewered areas of the City, where a public sanitary sewer is not available for sewer connections, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewerage disposal system complying with the requirements of the Board of Health of the City of Framingham and the regulations contained in Commonwealth of Massachusetts 310 CMR 15.00 (latest revisions).
B. 
Connection to the City's wastewater system shall be subject to the availability of capacity in the system as determined by the City through the Director. Determination of available capacity shall be made by the DPW by the use of standard engineering calculations, evaluation of flow meter data, and projected future system flows as determined in the City's Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan. The Director may not issue an approval for any connection to Framingham's wastewater facilities unless there is available capacity not legally committed to other users of the wastewater facilities to convey and adequately treat the quantity of wastewater that the requested connection will add to the system. Connections shall be made in compliance with all applicable City, MWRA, and DEP rules, regulations and specifications and at the owner's expense.
C. 
Notwithstanding sewer connections associated with existing or future intermunicipal agreements, any out-of-City extension of the public sewer or connection to the public sewer shall be subject to the availability of capacity in the sewer system as determined by the Director, and shall not be authorized without approval by the DPW and the Mayor. As applicable, the applicant shall provide documentation providing proof of recorded easements with the application.
When required by the City, a user/owner shall design, construct, install, operate and maintain special facilities which will provide for the regulation and control of the rate, volume and characteristics of wastewater discharged to the City's and MWRA's wastewater facilities. The design of such special facilities shall be subject to the approval of the City. Such special facilities shall be designed, constructed, operated and maintained at the user/owner's expense. Prior to startup of the special facilities, the user/owner shall prepare and submit an operation and maintenance plan, including as-built plans of the special facilities, prepared and stamped by a registered professional engineer to the DPW. The user/owner shall submit an annual report to the DPW that provides information, data, testing reports, or other information necessary to document that the special facilities are performing as designed and are being operated and maintained in conformance with the operation and maintenance plan.
A. 
Building sewers, whether located on public or private property, are owned by the owner of the premises served. In the case where more than one premises is connected to the same building sewer, depending on the form of ownership, the owners of the respective premises shall be jointly and severally responsible for the maintenance and repair of the building sewer.
B. 
The owner of a building sewer shall at all times keep such sewers clean and in good repair in order not to cause excessive infiltration, exfiltration or inflow, depletion of groundwater, damage to property, odor, or harm to the City's sewers. The owner shall maintain, repair, modify or replace an existing building sewer whenever it is determined by the City that such sewers may endanger public health, create a public nuisance, result in public or private property damage, harm the City's sewers, or impair water quality or the environment, and in such other circumstances as the City deems appropriate. Building sewers shall be maintained, repaired, modified or replaced at the owner's expense.
C. 
The DPW, working in conjunction with the Board of Health, for specific purpose, may repair, modify, or replace portions of privately owned building sewers, where it is in the public interest to do so. These specific purposes may include:
(1) 
The replacement and/or rehabilitation of public sewerage system.
(2) 
The mitigation of damage to the public sewerage system that may occur due to the failure of an owner to repair or maintain a building sewer.
(3) 
Any DPW project involved in the repair, replacement, or maintenance of the public infrastructure system.
(4) 
Those where public safety or public health is concerned.
(5) 
As part of any project to improve the function and operability of the wastewater system.
D. 
The instances listed above, or other specific purposes not specified, shall not be construed to mandate the DPW to perform work on building sewers. The repairs, modifications, and/or replacements shall be performed at the owner's expense and billed to the owner and shall not set precedent or equate with public control.