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Home My WebLink AboutORD 73-19 - Plumbing Inspections342 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: PROVIDING FOR ADOTPION OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD PLUMBING CODE: FIXING QUALIF- ICATIONS OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR OR PLUMBING INSPECTORS: REPEALING ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH: DECLARING AN EMERGENCY 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 Georgetown, Texas, and; WHEREAS, , 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. BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, THAT: Section 1. Southern Standard Plumbing Code. The provisions and regulations of the Southern Stantard Plumbing Code published and recommended by the Southern Building Code Congress, being particularly the 1971 Edition with 1973 Revisions, and amendments hereto, 343 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 System is furnished. Section I APPLICATIONS, PERMITS: a) Before PeTinning any work in the City of Georgetown, Texas, the person installing or altering same, shall apply to the plumbing inspector or other designated offi- cial 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 him- self 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 app- lication shall be accompanied by fees in accordance with the following schedule: For issuing each permit Section 2. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION: Plumbing Rough -in Inspections a) There is ;ere6y created the position of plumbing inspector or inspectors who shall Each Plumbing Fixture and/or Water and/or be employed by the City of Georgetown, Texas. waste discharging devices b) The plumbing inspector or inspectors shall have experience in plumbing to the New or Reconstructed Sewer Connection extent that enables him to know when plumbing is installed correctly. Each Septic Tank System c) The plumbing inspector or inspectors shall not be directly connected in any way Hot Water Heater, New or replaced with any person, firm, corporation, directly or indirectly engaged in the business of Water Service or Connection plumbing or plumbing suppliers. For Final Certificate of Inspector d) The inspector shall receive as full compensation for his services, a salary design- ated 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 a I l buildings within or without the corporate I i mi is of the City of Georgetown, Texas, when such buildings are connected, or to be connected to the Municipal Water and/or Sewage System. Qj f) The plumbing inspector shall prepare or cause to be prepared suitable forms for O 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 V 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 Low. Section I APPLICATIONS, PERMITS: a) Before PeTinning any work in the City of Georgetown, Texas, the person installing or altering same, shall apply to the plumbing inspector or other designated offi- cial 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 him- self 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 app- lication shall be accompanied by fees in accordance with the following schedule: For issuing each permit 1.00 Plumbing Rough -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 Heater, 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 $1,000.00 to indemnify the City or any citizen for any damage caused by the failure of such master plumber to comply strictly with the provisions 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. 344 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