A. Independent connection to be provided for each building. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building where sanitary facilities are required, 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, but the city does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.

B. Use of Existing Building Sewers. A new building, may be connected to an existing building sewer only after the sewer superintendent determines it reasonably complies with all requirements of this chapter.

C. Construction to Comply with Standard. The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers including building sewers, 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 or other applicable rules and regulations of the city and the state.

D. Construction to be Below Basement Floor. 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 discharge to the building sewer.

E. Inspection Prior to Connection. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the sewer superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the sewer superintendent or designee. (Ord. 654 § 1(part), 2004)