No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use, alter, disturb or discharge into any public sewage system or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Administrator or Town Board of the Town of Liberty where designated.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: one for residential and commercial service and one for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Administrator. The permit application shall be accompanied by plans, profiles, specifications or other information considered pertinent by the Administrator. All permit applications for service to establishments producing industrial wastes shall be subject to the Town Board of the Town of Liberty approval after a public hearing. A permit and inspection fee for a residential or commercial building sewer permit or for an industrial building sewer permit in the amount prescribed in a fee schedule[1] adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Liberty shall be paid to the district at the time that the application is filed.
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Editor's Note: A fee schedule is located in Chapter A152, Fees.
A. 
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting a private sewage system or building sewer to the district sewage system shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the district for any loss or damage that might be occasioned by the installation and connection of such public sewage system or building sewer.
B. 
Connections to the public sewer system within public streets or public rights-of-way shall be done by the Town at the expense of the owner. The sewer line shall be extended by the Town to the edge of the public street or public right-of-way capped and marked for extension by the property owner.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on a separate interior lot and where no 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.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction with new buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this chapter and any other specifications adopted by the Administrator.
[Amended 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
The size, slope, alignment, materials or construction of a building sewer, appurtenances and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the building sewer pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall conform to the requirements of the specifications for the installation of building sewers as adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Liberty and all applicable provisions of any other rules and regulations of the Town of Liberty or of the County of Sullivan and the State of New York, whichever requirement is more strict. In the absence of any requirements or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF), Manual of Practice No. 9, as amended, shall apply. All connections of building sewers to a public sewage system shall be gastight and watertight. Any deviations from the prescribed materials and construction procedures must be approved by the Administrator prior to installation. If a monitoring manhole is required by the Administrator, it shall be installed by the owner, as per the Administrator's requirements, at the owner's expense and shall be maintained by the owner so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
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, sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by a method approved by the Administrator and discharged to a gravity-flow building sewer.
[Amended 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
No person shall make a connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater or a garbage disposal or shredder to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected to a public sewage system.
The applicant for the connection of any building sewer to a public sewage system owned or maintained by the district shall notify the Administrator at least 24 hours in advance when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. In no case shall any underground portions of the building sewer be covered, or connection to the public sewer made, without the approval and/or supervision of the Administrator or his or her representative. Permission to activate the building sewer will be given only after satisfactory final inspection has been made and approval given by the Administrator.
All excavations for building sewer excavations shall comply with all federal, state and local safety regulations and 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 work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Administrator and appropriate municipal authorities.
Building sewers shall be maintained, serviced and repaired by the owner of the property served from the building drain to the edge of the highway or public right-of-way, if connected to a public sewer in a public right-of-way, and to within two feet of the district septic sewer system or district sewer system (as appropriate) located in an easement across private property. In the event that a property is unable to discharge sewage into the public sewage system, it will be presumed that the fault is in the private building sewer unless contrary facts are in evidence. Evidence of willful damage to a building sewer being served by a public sewer shall be considered a violation of this chapter.
Before any building whose building sewer is connected to a public sewer is demolished, the cutoff or plugging of the building sewer shall be done by the owner with the permission and under the supervision of the Administrator and in conformance with the requirements established by the Administrator. Failure by the owner to comply with this section will require the Administrator to complete the cutoff or plugging of the building sewer and assess all costs involved to the owner.