HomeMy WebLinkAbout0187_180(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 issueing each permit ----------------------$1.00
Plumbing Hough -in Inspections------------------ -0-
Each Plumbing Fixture and/or Water
and/or waste discharging devices--------------- 1.00
New or Reconstructed Sewer Connection---------- 1.00
Each Septic Tank System ------------------------- 1.00
Hot Water Beater, New or replaced-------------- 1.00
Water Service or Connection-------------------- -0-
For Final Certificate of Inspector------------- -0-
An additional fee of $2.00 shall be charged for each additional trip on the
part of the plumbing inspector, caused by the negligence of the plumber of
not being ready for inspection or a return for inspection of a corrected
installation.
Section 4. BOND:
(a) Every master plumber doing business in the City of Georgetown, Texas,
shall execute and deliver to the city a bond with a surety bonding company
in the sum of $1,000 to indemniff the city or any citizen for any damage
caused by the failure of such master plumber to comply strictly with the pro-
visions of this ordinance. No plumbing permit shall be issued to any master
plumber unless this bond has been delivered to the city and is in full force
and effect.
Section 5. STREET OPENINGS.
(a) All openings made in the public streets or alleys to install
plumbing must be made as carefully as possible and all materials excavated
from the trenches shall be removed or.placed where the lease inconvenience
to the public will be caused.
(b) All openings must be replaced in precisely the same condition as
before the excavation started and all rubbish and materials must be removed
at once, leaving the street or sidewalks clean and in perfect repair.
(c) All openings shall be marked with sufficient barriers. Flares
or red lamps shall be maintained around the opening at night and all other
precautions shall be taken by the plumber or excavator to protect the
public from damage to person or property.
Section 6. CROSS CONNECTIONS - BACK FLOW:
(a) The City Water Department of the City of Georgetown, Texas, and
the City Plumbing Inspector of the City of Georgetown, Texas, be and they are
hereby authorized to discontinue or cause to be discontinued all water service
or services to any and all premises, lands, buildings, or structures where
it is found that an immediate hazard exists to the purity or potability of
the city water supply.
(b) (b) The City Water Department of the 4'ity of Georgetown, Texas, and
the City Plumbing Inspector of the City of Georgetown, Texas, be and they
are hereby authorized and directed to take such steps as necessary to deter-
mine all potential hazards to the purity or potability of the City Water
Supply which exist. Upon determining said potential hazards it shall be the
duty of said department and said inspector to immediately cause notice to
go to the owner or such other person responsible for said premises, specifying
said hazards, and notifying said person that in the event that said hazard
is not corrected within thirty (30) days from the date of said notice, all
water services shall be discontinued thereafter until the requirements of
this Code have been complied with.
Section 7. PENALTIES:
Any person, firm or dorporation found guilty of violating any of the
rovisions of this ordinance shall'be subject to a fine of not less than ten
(p$10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, together with
the costs of such prosecution. Each day during which violation continues
shall be a separate offense.
Section 8. CONFLICTING ORDINANCES Rh?EALED:
(a) All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with any of the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
(b) This ordinance being for the regulation of plumbing and for the
protection of the public their provisions hereof are declared to be separable,
and the invalidity of any clause, sentence, paragraph or section hereof
shall not affe+et the validity of the remainder of this ordinance.