All persons, firms, corporations and political subdivisions organized under the laws of this State and empowered to install sewer lines or to construct or erect sewage processing plants, prior to doing any work of sewer line installation or erection of sewage processing plants in the City, shall file with the City Engineer plans and specifications of the proposed work.
Within 15 days after plans and specifications are filed with him/her, the City Engineer may approve the plans and specify the amount of cash deposit required by him/her to cover the estimated cost of inspecting the work during its progress to insure compliance with the submitted plans and specifications. If additional time is required by the City Engineer to review the plans and specifications in order to determine that the proposed work meets accepted sanitary engineering standards, he/she shall notify the applicant of the amount of additional time required.
From time to time, the City may install improvements to prevent future damage to sidewalk, curbs, gutters, landscaping, irrigation, lighting, conduit and similar facilities. Such improvement may include, but not be limited to, providing pipe for future lateral connections to the sewer main line. In such instances, the City Engineer shall collect from the persons or entities described in Section 6.7.202 funds sufficient to reimburse the City for its cost of installing such improvements when an application is made to connect to the improvement provided by the City.
(Ord. 21-16, 10/25/2016)
On approval of plans and specifications and deposit of the required fee, work may begin. The applicant shall carry forward the work without unreasonable delays and shall keep the City Engineer advised of times when work is to be performed so that inspection may be scheduled.
If inspection fees deposited are expended before the work is completed, the City Engineer may order the work suspended until sufficient additional fees are deposited with him/her to cover the cost of inspection.
Any applicant whose plans and specifications are disapproved, who complains of delay in the review of submitted plans and specifications, who asserts that inspection fees are excessive, or who contends that inspection by the City Engineer is unreasonable, may appeal in writing to the City Council. The appeal shall set forth in reasonable detail the ruling or action complained of. At its first regular meeting which follows by more than five days the filing of the appeal, the Council shall hear and decide the appeal. The Council may continue the hearing from time to time, but no single extension shall be longer than the time until the Council’s next regular meeting. The decision of the City Council shall be final.