§ 13.08.040. Installation and connections.

A.

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 Inspector.

B.

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 that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.

C.

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.

D.

Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Inspector to meet all requirements of this chapter.

E.

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.

F.

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.

G.

No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, interior and 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.

H.

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 Inspector before installation.

I.

The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the 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 Inspector or his representative.

J.

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 disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.

K.

City sewer services shall not be extended beyond the City limits of the City of Larned unless required by law or expressly authorized by the governing body of the City of Larned upon a finding that such service extension is not contrary to or is permitted by the laws of the State of Kansas and the ordinances of the City of Larned, that such service extension meets sound financial and economic standards and that such service extension is compatible with the mission and planning goals of the City of Larned.

Any such sewer service extension beyond the City limits of Larned shall be contingent upon each affected real estate owner(s) entering into a written agreement with the City of Larned which conditions the delivery or extension of sewer services to the owner's real estate on consent of the owner(s) to future annexation of the affected real estate, and the consent of the owner(s) to special assessments that may be imposed upon the affected property for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing infrastructure for such sewer services. The written agreement provided for by this section shall also contain the agreement of the owner(s) to comply with all ordinances of the City pertaining to sewer services.

Pursuant to KSA 12-534, the written agreement provided for by this section shall be filed with the office of the Register of Deeds of Pawnee County, Kansas, within thirty (30) days of execution by all parties, and shall be deemed to be a sufficient consent to annexation under KSA 12-520 and amendments thereto by the owner(s) and any successors in interest.

(Ord. 1427 § 1, 2005; Ord. 1128 § 4, 1983)