A. No person, other than employees of the city, and 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 four inches in diameter without first obtaining approval of sewer construction plans from the superintendent.

B. The applicant shall submit to the superintendent for approval, construction plans and such specifications and other details as are required to describe fully the proposed sewage 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 of California.

C. Plans for sewer construction shall not be approved by the superintendent for any facility which will convey industrial wastewater unless the discharger has first obtained a city permit for industrial wastewater discharge. Plans for sewer construction shall meet all design requirements of the city.

D. All sewer construction shall conform to the requirements of the “standard Specifications for Sewage Construction, City of Montague,” copies of which are on file at the City Hall.

E. Inspection of all sewer construction under this section shall be made by personnel of the city in the manner described in Section 13.12.130.

F. An approval of plans for sewer construction shall expire one year after the date of approval unless construction has been initiated. (Ord. 142 § 301, 1976)