[Amended 12-27-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-23]
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenances thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Plumbing Inspector and Director.
Permits and fees shall be as set forth in Chapter
138, Building, Plumbing and Electrical Standards, regulating the administration and enforcement of the State Building Construction Code and Plumbing Standards applicable to the City of Schenectady.
All costs and expense(s) incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner and/or the contractor performing the work shall indemnify
the City 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 that where one building stands
at the rear of another on any 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 Part 2.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all
conform to the requirements of the New York State Building and Plumbing
Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the
absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials
and procedures sea forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control
Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
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.
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 Building and
Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the City
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made
gas-tight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures
and materials must be approved by the Plumbing Inspector before installation.
[Amended 12-27-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-23]
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Plumbing Inspector when the building sewer is ready
for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector, Director,
or their representatives.
All excavations for building sewer installations
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 manner satisfactory to the City.