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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) 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
and directed to take such steps as necessary to determine 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 as 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 corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than one
hundred ($100.00) dollars, together with the cost of such prosecution. Each day during
which violation continues shall be a separate offense.
Section 8. CONFLICTING ORDINANCES REPEALED:
(a) All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting wit any of the provisions of
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
(b) This ordinance be*,ng for the regulation of plumbing and for the protection of the
public their provisions hereof and declared to be separable, and the invalidity of any clause,
sentence, paragraph or section hereof shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this
ordinance.
Section 9. AMENDMENTS MADE IN SAID CODE.
The Code adopted hereby is amended as follows:
(a) By deleting the following: Section 105 Permits, Section 106 Fees, and Section
109 Licensing and Bonding of Plumbers.
Section 10. DATE OF EFFECT.
This ordinance shall e in fu force and effect from and after its passage.
DATE PASSED: February 11, 1974.
ATTEST:
City Secretary