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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR PLUMBING
INSPECTIONS FOR ALL PLUMBING WHEREVER WATER ORIGINATING FROM
THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN WATER SYSTEMS: PROVIDING FOR PLUMBING
INSPECTOR: FIXING QUALIFICATIONS OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR OR
PLUMBING INSPECTO1tS: PROVIDING FOR ADOPTION OF THE SOUTHERN
STANDARD (PLUMBING) CODE: FIXING OF WATER SERVICE: RLT'EALING
ORDINANCES OIL PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREIYITH:
DECLARING AN F.'l+IERGENCY AND FOR OTHER RELATED PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown, Texas, owns and operates in a governmental
capacity, a Water System as a Municipal Utility; such system having plants, pumps,
and transmission lines within and without the corporate limits of the City of t,
Georgetown, Texas and;
WIHILEAS, certain municipalities, private companies, governmental agencies,
firms and individuals not within the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown,
Texas, are purchasers of water from the said Water System, and;
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown, Texas, is very desirous of maintaining
a pure Water Supply.
j BE IT TIiEREFORE ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS,
ef+ THAT:
Section 1. Southern Standard Building (Plumbing) CODE. The Provisions and
regulations of the Southern Standard Building Plumbing Code, 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. Wherever water and/or Sewage System is
furnished. That certainbuildingcode known as the Southern Standard Building (Plumbing)
bein pparticuarlyNSYl CTION AhDtSUi'F4ILVISION• ectlon 1
a) There is hereby created the position of plumbing inspector 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) The plumbing inspector or inspectors shall not be directly 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 services, a
salary designated by the City of Georgetown, Texas.
e) It shall be the duty of the plumbing inspector or inspectors to enforce
all provisions of this Ordinance, and such inspector or 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 inspector shall prepare or cause to be prepared 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 dhanging 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. PEIulITS:
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. ll:ipermit may be issued to a home owner to
install or alter plumbing in &'single family residence, protiding 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 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 tenp$
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.
c) This ordinance shall be in full force
Date Passed: October 11, 1971
ATTEST:
Claude Eads, City Secretary
effect from and after its passage.
C,/Sloan, Mayor, City of Georgetown