§ 13.08.395. Separate sewers for each building—Rear buildings.  


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  • A.

    A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each and every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another building on an interior lot and no public or private sewer is available or no private sewer can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer may, at the discretion of the city engineer, be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. A manhole shall be constructed at the junction of the front building sewer and the rear building sewer or where directed by the department of public works.

    B.

    The department of public works will grant a permit for the type of building sewer connection described in subsection A of this section only if the permit application is forwarded with a certified copy of a legal instrument, which has been filed at the county registry of deeds, in the form of an easement, shown on a plan referred to and filed with the legal instrument, whereby perpetual rights are granted to the rear building to use and maintain the whole building sewer, which shall begin at the public sewer.

(C.O.83-52 § 60 (Art. II § 7))