No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Town and paying to the Town any fee imposed.
A. 
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) 
For residential and commercial service; and
(2) 
For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
B. 
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Town. The permit application shall be supplemented by plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
All costs and expense incident to the installation, repair and maintenance or reconstruction of a building sewer to the service connection shall be borne by the owner. The initial installation of the service connection from the public right-of-way to the public sewer shall be installed by the owner, with all costs and expenses incidental to the initial service connection being borne by the owner. Upon inspection and acceptance by the Town, the service connection will be maintained by the Town. The owner is responsible for road opening permits and/or other utility permits or notifications.
The building sewer shall be connected to a service connection at a place designated by the Superintendent.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building except as otherwise provided in this article. Grouping of more than one building on one building sewer shall not be permitted, except under special circumstances and for good sanitary reasons or other good cause shown, but only after special permission of the Town Council, in writing, shall have been secured and subject to such rules, regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by the Town Council.
Existing building sewers may be used in connection with any building only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The building sewer shall be cast-iron soil pipe ASTM Specification A74-66 or equal; asbestos-concrete sewer pipe Class 1500 Type II ASTM Specification C428-67 or equal; polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conforming to commercial standard CS272-65 for PVC-DMV piping; and shall be Schedule 40 or other suitable pipe approved by the Town Council.
All joints and connections under this article shall be made permanently gastight and watertight.
A. 
The following type of joints shall be used:
(1) 
All joints in vitrified clay pipes or between vitrified clay pipe and metals shall be made by cementing with one part cement and two parts sand, or by an approved hot poured asphaltic jointing compound, or by an approved mechanical joint.
(2) 
All PVC piping shall be of the socket type and assembly made with solvent cement approved for PVC.
(3) 
All joints in cement-asbestos sewer pipe shall be made with rubber rings furnished by the manufacturer of the pipe and installed in strict accordance with the recommendations of the manufacturer.
(4) 
All joints in cast-iron piping shall be firmly packed with oakum or hemp and secured with pure lead or other approved material, not less than one inch deep.
B. 
Adapters approved by the Superintendent shall be used when changing from one kind of pipe to another. Any departure in type of joint from the above shall be made only on the approval of the Superintendent.
The building sewer, when laid in unstable, filled or unsettled ground, shall be laid in a manner approved by the Superintendent.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent, but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches. The slope of such four-inch pipe shall not be less than 1/4 of an inch per foot. If a slope of less than 1/4 of an inch per foot must be maintained, the minimum diameter shall be six inches. In no case shall the slope be less than 1/8 of an inch per foot.
The building sewer shall be laid at a uniform grade. Offsets or changes in direction shall be made only with properly designed pipe fittings to permit the use of a sewer rod or by the use of access manholes.
In any building for which the building sewer is too low to permit gravity flow to the service connection, sewage carried by such pipe shall be lifted by artificial means and discharged to the service connection.
A suitable cleanout connection shall be installed inside the building to permit cleaning the building sewer with a sewer rod.
All excavations required for the building sewer and/or service connection shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfilling shall be done in accordance with the standard practice to provide proper support, drainage and freedom from damage in backfilling. No excavations will be left open overnight, except under unusual circumstances and with prior approval of the Superintendent. No backfill shall be placed until the pipe has been inspected. After inspection, no additional connections shall be made to the building sewer.
The permittee shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer and/or service connection is ready for inspection. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his agent. Inspection must be made within 48 hours of notice.
All excavations for the service connection from the public right-of-way to the public sewer shall be adequately guarded with barricades, signs, lights, and other means of traffic control so as to protect the public from hazard. Sidewalks or other public property disturbed in the course of installation or repair of a building sewer and/or service connection shall be restored at the expense of the owner of the property being served in a manner satisfactory to the Superintendent.
The Town reserves the right to adopt, from time to time, additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary relating to connections with the sewerage system, which additional rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate, shall become a part of this chapter.