(1) The Water Department may grant permission to an owner
of property to construct a sewer in any street upon which his property abuts,
under the supervision and direction of the Department and in accordance with its
regulations and specifications.
(2) The property owner shall enter into
an agreement with the City, in form satisfactory to the Law Department, to
comply with these requirements and to construct the sewer without expense to the
City.
(3) The contractor selected by the property owner shall file a
bond with the City, in an amount fixed by the Law Department, conditioned upon
compliance with the Water Department's regulations and
specifications.
(4) Upon completion of the sewer the Water Department
shall provide for the preparation of a plan thereof which shall be kept on file
with the Water Department and the Department of Licenses and
Inspections.
(5) For two years after completion, no permit shall be
granted for a connection to the sewer to anyone other than the person who paid
for building the sewer or his successor in title unless the applicant produces a
release or receipt from him evidencing that the applicant or his predecessor in
title paid his proportionate share of the cost of constructing the
sewer.
(6) After the expiration of two years from its completion, no
permit shall be granted for a connection to the sewer to a person other than the
person who paid for building the sewer or his successor in title unless the
applicant has paid to the City the frontage charges in effect at the time the
connection is made.
[58] (7) The title
to sewers constructed as provided in § 13-406(1) shall vest immediately in
the City, but the owner or his successors in title to property fronting thereon
shall be relieved from assessment charges for the future construction of sewers
in that street.
(8) If a sewer built without cost to the City is located
in private property, it shall be the obligation of the owner to maintain it
without expense or other liability to the City, except that when in the judgment
of the Water Department it is in the best interest of the City the Water
Department may assume the obligation, provided the owner of the property
executes and records an agreement, satisfactory to the Law Department, whereby
an easement or right-of-way of sufficient width to protect and maintain the
sewer is granted and the Water Department is given the right of entry for
inspection, repair and reconstruction.