No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Village Clerk.
B.
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make
application on a special form furnished by the Village. The permit
application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or
other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Plumbing
Inspector.
C.
A permit and inspection fee as set forth by resolution
of the Village Board of Trustees in the Master Fee Schedule, which
may be amended, shall be paid to the Village at the time the application
is filed.
[Amended 1-16-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
[Amended 7-15-2015 by L.L. No. 4-2015]
It shall be the responsibility of the owner of a building to
install, maintain, repair or replace the building sewer, at the owner's
expense, to ensure said building sewer's compliance with the
New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code or other
applicable rules and regulations. The building owner shall indemnify
the Village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building; except where one building stands at
the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building
may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one
building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Plumbing Inspector, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
[Amended 7-15-2015 by L.L. No. 4-2015]
A.
All work of installing building sewers and sewer connections and
all materials used shall conform to the New York State Uniform Fire
Prevention and Building Code, Village of Briarcliff Manor standard
detail, and/or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved by the Plumbing Inspector before installation.
B.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building
sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe,
bedding of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench
shall conform to the requirements of the Plumbing Code or other applicable
rules and regulations of the Village.
C.
Building sewers must be constructed of extra-heavy cast-iron pipe,
or other approved material as set forth in the Plumbing Code, be a
minimum of four inches in inside diameter and be properly connected
by one-inch forty-five-degree bend with a four-inch minimum diameter
Y-branch on a public sewer.
D.
All house sewers, drains and horizontal soil and waste pipes shall
be laid as straight as possible, and any changes in directions shall
be made with proper, approved fittings, and all such pipes shall have
a fall of not less than 1/4 inch per foot and as much more as may
be practicable in each case and as approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
E.
No building sewer shall be covered until it has been examined and
approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
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 in such manner as the Plumbing Inspector shall
approve.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Plumbing Code
and rules and regulations, or other applicable rules and regulations
of the Village. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved by the Plumbing Inspector before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Plumbing Inspector when the building sewer is ready
for inspection and for connection to the public sewer. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector or his
representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation
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 satisfactory manner as required under Ordinance No. 92 of the Village
of Briarcliff Manor, New York.[1]
