A. No person, other than employees of the city or persons contracting to do work for the city shall construct or cause to be constructed, or alter or cause to be altered, any public sewer, lateral sewer, house connection or industrial connection sewer over six inches in diameter, sewage pumping plant, pollution control plant, or other sewerage facility within the city where existing or proposed wastewater flows will discharge directly or indirectly to facilities of the city without first obtaining approval of sewerage construction plans from the city engineer.

B. The applicant shall submit to the city engineer for approval construction plans and such specifications and other details as required to describe fully the proposed sewerage facility. The plans shall have been prepared under the supervision of and shall be signed by an engineer of suitable training registered in the state.

C. Plans for sewerage construction shall not be approved by the city engineer for any facility which will convey industrial wastewater unless the discharger has first obtained a permit for industrial wastewater discharge.

D. Plans and specifications for sewerage construction shall meet all requirements as established by adopted City Standards S-7, S-8, S-20 through S-23 and S-39 and all amendments thereto as established from time to time by the city engineer.

E. An approval of plans for sewerage construction shall expire one year after date of approval unless construction has been initiated. (Ord. 4740 § 1, 2013; Ord. 3667 § 1, 1995)