[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village
of Bellerose 2-14-1955 by Ord. No. 49.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
All connections with sanitary sewers in the Incorporated Village of
Bellerose shall conform with the requirements of this chapter and any other
Village ordinances and regulations of the County of Nassau governing discharge
into and connection with county sewer facilities.
All work shall be performed by or under the immediate supervision of
a plumber duly licensed by the Town of Hempstead or the City of New York for
the year in which the work is done.
A.
Applications for permits under this chapter shall be
made on forms to be furnished by the Building Inspector. A separate application
must be filed for each house sewer connection. Applications shall be signed
by the owner of the premises and the plumber specifically authorized by such
owner to make such application. At the time of filing the application, the
Nassau County permit for connection to the sewer system shall be presented.
B.
No work, as shown on the application, shall be commenced
or performed until a permit has been issued by the Building Inspector, the
fee for which shall be $2. No fee will be returned after the permit has been
issued.
[Amended 12-9-1996 by L.L. No. 3-1996]
A.
Before a permit is issued, a certificate of public liability
insurance of not less than $1,000,000 per person and $1,000,000 per accident
for personal injury and $100,000 for property damage shall be filed with the
Building Inspector to cover the Incorporated Village of Bellerose, as a named
insured, with respect to each house sewer installation, in the event of any
injury to persons or property arising out of or in connection with such installation.
B.
In addition to the above, it will be necessary to post
a deposit in the amount established by the Board of Trustees by duly adopted
resolution, for each house sewer connection. If any plumber has over five
jobs in progress at one time, a performance bond to be approved by the Board
of Trustees may be accepted in lieu of deposits. This deposit or bond is to
insure satisfactory completion of the work in accordance with this chapter
and the requirements of the Building Inspector. The deposit will not be returned
or bond released until 30 days after the final inspection and issuance of
a certificate of compliance by the Building Inspector or a longer period of
time if the Building Inspector feels there is a possibility of damage due
to settlement or other causes.
A.
Interior house sewer drain connections shall be constructed
of extra-heavy cast-iron pipe to be not less in diameter than the size of
existing house stack and to be not less than four inches. Cast iron shall
be extended through the foundation wall at least two feet.
B.
Exterior pipe shall be of extra-heavy cast-iron or asbestos-cement
sewer pipe or equivalent and shall be not less than five inches in diameter.
C.
All joints shall be made watertight and precaution shall
be taken to prevent caulking materials from percolating into the pipes. All
fittings and couplings shall be in accordance with and conform to existing
American Society for Testing and Materials specifications for house sewer
pipe.
D.
House sewers shall be laid solidly on a true grade of
not less than 1/4 inch per foot, except by written permission of the Building
Inspector.
E.
They shall be laid as nearly as possible in a straight
line, changes in direction, if necessary, being made with proper fittings
and all connections made with Y branches and one-eighth and one-sixteenth
bends.
F.
House sewers shall be covered to a depth of at least
two feet above the top of the pipe with well-rammed fine earth free from stones
and rubbish.
A.
An iron running trap shall be placed in the house drain
near the foundation wall through which the drain passes, on the sewer side
of all connections. If placed outside the house or below the cellar floor,
such trap must be made accessible by a brick manhole, the walls of which shall
be at least eight inches thick and provided with an iron manhole cover. When
outside the house it shall, in no case, be less than three feet six inches
below the surface of the ground. Where fixtures are less than three feet above
the main sewer in the street, an approved backwater valve shall be installed.
B.
A five-inch-by-four-inch extra-heavy cast-iron wye shall be placed inside the foundation wall and before the house trap. In slab floor of cellarless types of jobs, the above shall be placed outside the house in a pit as described in Subsection A of this section.
C.
House traps shall have two cleanouts, with brass screw
caps.
A fresh-air inlet pipe shall be connected to the house drain just inside
of the house trap and extended to the outer air terminating with the open
end at least 12 inches above the finished grade at the most available point.
The fresh-air inlet pipe shall be at least 1/2 the diameter of the house drain,
but in no case shall the fresh-air inlet pipe be less than three inches in
diameter. No vent caps shall be permitted, and the fresh-air inlet pipe shall
terminate with a return bend or a fresh-air plate.
The Building Inspector may issue regulations or rulings interpretive
of this chapter and, where necessary, establish tests to determine the qualities
of materials. He shall have the authority to decide when materials and methods
of construction not specifically prescribed by this chapter may be used but
shall exercise such authority only in cases where strict compliance presents
unnecessary hardship and where equivalent materials or different methods of
construction will conform to good plumbing and sewer installation practices.
Excavations or openings in streets or removal or disturbance of Village
curbs or sidewalks necessary for sewer connections or installing house sewers
shall be made in accordance with the ordinances and regulations of the Incorporated
Village of Bellerose.[1]
Inspections shall be made by the Building Inspector of the Village.
No work shall be covered until it has been inspected and approved. No connection
with the street sewer shall be put into use until the work has been inspected
and approved and a certificate of temporary use has been issued by the Building
Inspector. After the connection has been completed and is in use, the Building
Inspector shall inspect such installation and the operation thereof, and if
he finds that the installation conforms to the provisions of this chapter
and in all respects is properly constructed and installed, he shall issue
a certificate of compliance. The Building Inspector shall be notified 24 hours
in advance of the starting of the work and prior to 10:00 a.m. the day an
inspection is requested.
The use of the existing cesspool or cesspools shall be discontinued and the same cleaned out and backfilled with clean fill when the connection to a sanitary sewer is completed. Failure to comply with this section within 20 days after the date of the issuance of the certificate of compliance as herein provided shall be a violation of this chapter, punishable by the penalties provided in § 176-13 hereof, and, in addition thereto, in the event of failure to comply with this section within said period of 20 days, the Village may cause the said cesspool or cesspools to be discontinued, cleaned out and backfilled and may assess the cost of such work, including materials used, upon the property on which the said cesspool or cesspools are located.
The Board of Trustees may from time to time require the owners or occupants
of any or all property fronting or abutting on any street or portion thereof
to connect such property with the sanitary sewer mains in said street and
to discontinue and backfill cesspools thereon within such time and in such
manner as the Board may prescribe; and whenever any such owner or occupant
shall have made default in making and completing said connection within the
time specified, the Board of Trustees may cause the same to be made and may
assess the cost thereof, including the discontinuing and backfilling of the
cesspools, upon the property on which the improvement was made.
The owner of any building structure or the owner of the land where any
violation of this chapter shall be placed or shall exist and any architect,
builder, plumber, carpenter or other person who may be employed to assist
in the commission of any such violation and all persons who shall violate
any of the provisions of this chapter or shall fail to comply therewith or
with any requirement thereof or any order or rule made thereunder shall, severally
for each such violation and noncompliance, be liable, on conviction thereof,
to a fine or penalty not exceeding $100 for each and every offense, and whenever
such person shall have been notified by the Building Inspector or by the service
of a summons and prosecution or in any other way that he is committing such
violation of this chapter, each day that he shall continue such violation
after such notification shall constitute a separate offense punishable by
a like fine or penalty; and a violation of any provision of this chapter shall,
in addition, constitute disorderly conduct, and any person violating the same
shall be and is hereby declared a disorderly person.
