No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Bureau.
A. 
There shall be two classes of permits for connection to the City wastewater treatment system: (a) for residential and commercial users, and (b) for industrial users. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City in accordance with the City plumbing code.
B. 
The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Director to enforce this chapter.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage (including claims of others against the City) that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the owner's 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 for the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. The City shall assume no obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single building sewer which serves two buildings.
Existing building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test as defined by the Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
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 building and plumbing code provisions and other laws, rules and regulations applicable in the City and any applicable New York State Code. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
A. 
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, sump pumps, floor drains such as garage or basement, 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.
B. 
Sump pumps existing prior to the adoption date of this chapter that are illegally plumbed to the sanitary sewer, by definition of this chapter, shall be given "grandfathered approval" until such time as major plumbing changes or work is performed that would allow for proper connection to a storm sewer or other proper end point, except in such cases, determined by the Director, to be of such significance as to require immediate remediation. This clause shall apply except in such cases where, in the opinion of the Director, it is determined that such action would be overly deleterious to the property or the financial well-being of the property owner.