(1) All applications for a sewer connection permit shall be accompanied by the payment of the inspection fee required by the city of North Bend and a hook-up fee required by the city of North Bend.

(2) Whenever any building shall be required to be connected to any sewer line constructed after the completion of said building, then, subject to the conditions contained in this chapter, the owner may, at his option, elect to pay said connection fee in installments of not less than one-fifth of said fee at the time of application for sewer connection permit, and not less than one-fifth of said fee, plus interest on the unpaid principal balance at the rate of six percent per annum every six months thereafter until the entire connection fee with interest thereon shall have been paid in full.

(3) All costs and expenses 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 that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.

(4) 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 from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.

(5) 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 chapter.

(6) 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 or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.

(7) 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 in the building sewer.

(8) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, area way drains, or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.

(9) 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 A.S.T.M. and the W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the plumbing inspector before installation.

(10) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property distributed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the city. (Ord. 1934 § 2.2, 2005; Ord. 1698 § 2, 1985; Ord. 1534, 1976; Ord. 1358 § 1, 1967; Ord. 1104 § 3, 1958)