House and Trailer Connections.
15 RCNY § 19-08
in effect§ 19-08 House and Trailer Connections.
(a) Conditional house connection.
(1) Conditional House Connection Permits are issued under a variety of situations among which the two (2) most common are:
(i) The developer/builder does not have a prospectus at the time house connection permits have to be issued as consequence of a hardship.
(ii) The developer/builder does not have a prospectus which is most likely early on in the construction sequence of his or her building construction, however needs one or several connections to drain the construction site.
(2) The manner in which conditional House Connection Permits are issued is as follows: The Local Office of the Department's Permit Control Section will approve a permit application conditionally by indicating on it that the Certificate of Inspection is not to be released until a prospectus has been secured.
(b) Trailer connections. Basically there are two types of trailer connections:
(1) A construction trailer connection that is necessitated by the construction of a building. Such connection should be tied in with the certification of the site connection proposal and the issuance of the House Connection Permits for such building as follows:
(i) The Plumber requesting the trailer connection should present a copy of the certified site connection proposal with the Permit Application.
(ii) The Local Office will issue a house connection permit subject to the following condition: We will withhold the Certificate of Inspection for at least one of the Buildings House Connections until the plug for the trailer connection is performed.
(2) If the construction trailer is necessitated by the Department of Transportation (or any other Agency's) Capital Project, the plumber should present an original letter from the appropriate agency to the Department indicating:
(i) The number and size of connections needed.
(ii) The duration of the construction operations at the end of which the plumber will plug the trailer connection(s).
(iii) Guarantee from DOT (or any other Agency) that the Plumber will obtain a plug permit(s) at the end of their construction operations to plug the trailer connection(s).
The Local Office will not issue any other trailer connections to the agency in question if it is common knowledge that a job has been completed and there are outstanding open connections.
(c) Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) letter. Letters to the Board of Standards and Appeals for situations where there are no allowable storm/combined sewer outlets for storm discharge within 500 feet will be sent out upon verification by the Department provided: The filing Engineer/Architect requests such a letter and encloses the following:
(1) NB/BN/ALT numbers.
(2) Street address.
(3) Block and Lot.
(4) Site Plans.
(5) Tentative Lot Sheets.
(6) Survey.
(d) House connection charges (private sewers).
(1) For private sewers that are still recoupable (meaning either: (i) All property owners abutting the sewer have not paid their proportionate part of the sewer cost for sewers built prior to 1963; or (ii) For sewers where the Construction Permits were obtained after January 1, 1963, the seven year period is not up and all the abutting property owners have not paid their share of the private sewer cost),
(2) The following procedure is to be followed:
(i) Case I (Plumber has "Consent Letter"). At the time of applying for the House Connection Permit the Plumber will present the "Proof of Payment Letter" (Sewer Owner's Consent Letter) to the Local Office in order to be able to connect to the Private Sewer.
(ii) Case II (Missing Sewer Owner). At the time of applying for the House Connection Permit the plumber will present the following additional documents:
(A) Registered Letter Envelope with Post Office Stamp: Return to sender not at this address or something similar. (The addressee on the envelope should be the latest address we have on record which would prove that an attempt was made to contact the sewer owner.)
(B) A properly executed Missing Owner Affidavit.
(C) A House Connection Bond for a six year period which should be the House Connection Charge to the Private Sewer plus 25 percent (the computation of the House Connection Charge is determined/provided by the Local Office).
(iii) Case III (House Connection Charge Dispute with Sewer Owner). At the time of applying for the House Connection Permit the plumber will present the following additional documents:
(A) A properly executed "Fee in Dispute Affidavit".
(B) A House Connection Bond for a six year period which should be the House Connection Charge to the Private Sewer plus 25 percent (the computation of the House Connection Charge is determined/provided by the Local Office).
(Amended City Record 2/18/2020, eff. 3/19/2020)
Source: City of New York, Charter, Administrative Code and Rules (American Legal Publishing XML export, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCrules/0-0-0-125729Fetched: 10/24/2026