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and regulations of the Southern Standard Building Code (Plumbing),
and amendments hereto, -are made a part of this ordinance by
reference, three certified copies of which shall be on file in
the office of the City Clerk, and shall extend over and govern
the installation of all.plumbing installed, altered or repaired
within or without the City of Georgetown, Texas. Whereever water and/
or sewage service originating from the Municipal grater and/or Sewer
System is furnished.
Section 2. INSPECTION AND SLPERVISION:
(a) There is hereby created the position of plumbing inspec-
tor or inspectors who shall be employed by the City of Georgetown"
Texas.
(b) The plumbing inspector or inspectors shall have experience
in plumbing to the extent that enables him to know .when plumbing
is installed correctly.
(c) 'Phe plumbing inspector or inspectors shall not be .erectly
connected in any way with any person, firm, corporation, directly.
or indirectly engaged in the business of plumbing, or plumbing
suppliers.
(d) The inspector shall receive as full compensation for his ser-
vices, a salary designated by the City of Georgetown, Texas.
(e) It shall be the duty of the plumbing inspector or inspec-
tors to enforce all provisions of this Ordinance, and such inspector
inspectors is hereby granted the authority to enter all buildings
within or without the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown,
Texas, when such buildings are connected, or to be connected to the
Municipal Water and/or Sewage System.
(f) The plumbing inspeFtor shall prepare or cause to be pre—
pared suitable forms for applications, permits, inspection reports
and other such materials.
(g) It shall be the duty of the plumbing inspector to inspect
and test all plumbing work for compliance with this Ordinance
and its adopted plumbing code, and to enforce changing of such
installations that does not meet the requirements. It further
shall be his duty to see that all persons installing or altering
plumbing shall be qualified by State law.
Section 3. APPLICATIONS, PERMITS:
(a) Before beginning any work in the City of Georgetown,
Texas, the person installing or altering same, shall apply to
the plumbing inspector or other designated official and obtain a
permit to do such work. Only those persons legally authorized
to do plumbing may be issued permits. A permit may be issued
to a home owner to install or alter plumbing in a single family
residence, providing the home owner does the work himself and
that the building is owned and occupied by the owner as his home.
All such work shall meet the code requirements.
(b) All applications for permits shall be made on suitable
forms provided. The application shall be accompanied by fees in
accordance with the following schedule:
For issuing each permit**..*.*..* ....... 1.00
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