Who pays for the sewer lateral in East Bay Regional Private Sewer Lateral Program, CA

Which city you are in changes the answer, and in two of the five it changes it by the length of the road. The programme's own page stops at the upper lateral for Alameda and Albany without saying who has the rest; each of those cities says so itself. Alameda's sewer system management plan states that "the property owner owns the entire service lateral from the building to the connection to the City's sewer main; however, the City takes responsibility for maintenance and replacement of the lower portion of the lateral", and that "the upper lateral remains the responsibility of the private property owner" - the City rehabilitating a lower lateral when it rehabilitates the main it connects to, or when the lower lateral fails, whichever comes first. Albany takes the lower lateral too, from the kerb to the main; its own page for householders is the place to have that confirmed. So if you are in Alameda or Albany, the run under the road is the City's to keep up and the part across your own land is yours - ring the City before you ring a plumber. In Oakland, Emeryville and Piedmont the whole run is yours, and Piedmont's own plan puts the connection at the main on you as well. One caution for Alameda: the City's code still reads that "property owners own the entire sewer lateral and must maintain, repair and replace all sewer laterals associated with their parcels", which is broader than what its plan says the City does - the plan is the more recent statement of what the City will actually do, and the code has not caught up.