Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-26

| OF Ordinance Passed by the Common
Council of the City of st. Paul, March
| 10, 1880.
| ORDINANCE No. 20l.
An ordinance in relation to the general super
| vision and control of the sewers of the city
| of st. Paul.
The Common Council of the city Of st. Pau
do ordain as follows:
Section l. The City Engineer shall have the
control of the sewers and drains of the city
and everything done and to be done in the pre-
misses to the end that q proper and efficient
| system may be maintained except as herein
| otherwise provided.
Sec. 2. The City Engineer shall under the di-
| rection of the Board of Public Works take the
general supervision of all sewers and their con-
| nections, which now or hereafter may be built
| by the city, or which may be permitted to be
bnilt by its authority, and shall take charge of
| the building and repairs of the same, and all
matters in connection with the sewerage of the
city.
Sec. 8. All sums to be paid by any person
for in this ordinance, shall be paid to the City
Treasurer. taking his receipt therefor, which
receipt shall be noted or recorded by the City
Engineer, before he shall deliver said license
or permit.
Sec. 4. No connection shall be made with
any sewer or drain except by persons regularly
licensed to perform that description of work,
and the person or persons applying for license
must be residents of the city of st. Paul, and
at the time of the application furnish the
Board of Public Works with satisfactory GER
tifcate signed by at least two responsible ma
sons, plumbers, or builders, or one OF each, that
the applicant is known to them person
skilled in the business and qualified to receive
license.
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the party shall pay for the same the sum of
twenty five dollars per apnum, and file bond
in the Office of the City Comptroller in the sum
of one thousand dollars, with one or more
sureties, to be approved by the Board of Public
Works, conditioned that he will indemnify and
save harmless the city of st. Paul and the
Board of Public Works from all SUITS accidents
and damages consequent thereupon, for, or by
reason of any opening in any streets, any lane or
avenue made by him or by those in his employ
ment, for making any connection with any
public or private sewer, or for any other pur-
pose or object Whatever; and that he will also
replace and restore the street over such
opening to as good a state and condition
a. he found it, keep guards by day, and light
by night, and keep and maintain the same in
good order, to the satisfaction of the City En-
ginser for his acceptance, and shall conform in
all respects to the rules and regulations of the
Common Council or Board of Public Works,
and pay all fines that may be imposed on him
by law.
Sec. 6. No connection shall be made with any
sewer without the written permission of the City
Engineer, and any opening or connection made
into any sewer without such permission, or in
any manner different from the mode prescribed
for such opening or connection by this Ordi.
nance, shall subject tho person making the
same. and the occupier or owner of the prem
ises directing it, to a penalty of not less than
ten dollars for each and every day said con-
nection or opening shall remain after notice
by the City Engineer to close and disconnect
the same.
Sec. 7. All permissions given as aforesaid to
connect with sewers and drains shall be upon
the express condition that the Board of Public
Works of the city may at any time revoke
and annul the same, and the persons making
such connections or their successors in interest,
shall have no right to claim any damages in
consequence of such permission being re-
voked or annulled.
Sec. 8. The City Engineer is expressly pro-
hiblted from granting permit to any person
to tap or connect with any sewer unless salts
factory evidence Is produced to said engineer,
that the assessment, for the cost and expense
for the construction of said sewer against the
property, to drain which permit is asked,
has beenpaid, and when hereafter sewer is built
and no assessment has been made, unless depos-
it shall first have been made with the City
Treasurer of an amount equal to one dollar
and twenty cents per foot frontage of the
property sought to be drained, said deposit to
apply in payment of any assessment for the
construction of a sewer abutting the property
drained, and il the assessment for the cost of
said sewer shall be less as against the property
for which permit has been granted, as afore-
said, than the said deposit, the difference shall
be returned to the owner of the property upon
the completion of said assessment.
Sec. 9. No permit shall be granted to any
person to tap or connect with any sewer off the
line of the street upon which the property
sought to be drained is situated.
SEQ. 10. The connection with all sewers
must be made even with the inside surface in
q workmanlike manner where a length of pipe
or drain has not been left in the sewer, and
made perfectly tight with good cement, and
where pipe has been left in, the connection
shall be made with such pipe without iniuring
the same. The street must be opened, and
the paving and earth deposited in a man
ner that will occasion the least inconvenience
to the public, and provide for the passage of
water along the CUTTERS; one half the street
must be left clear for the passage of vehicles
and brldgeways provided on sidewalks for foot
passengers; in reflling the trench, the earth
must be laid in layers not more than six inches
in depth and each layer wstted and rammed to
prevent after settlement. The paving, tagging
and sidewalks are to be restored to at least rs
good condition as previous to the excavation,
and all rubbish and surplus earth to be imme-
diately removed.
Sec. IL. It shall be unlawful to construct
or extend any drain for the reception of
sewerage or waste water under or into any hotel,
tenement house, dwelling or any building, or
to connect the same with any public
sewer, unless the said drain shall, in it's plan
and construction. conform to the following re-
quirements: First, there shall be in said drain
. trap 80 constructed as to bar the passage of
air from beyond the trap into the house by an
obstacle equal to at least one inch in depth of
water; second, between said trap and the foot
of the soil-pipe there shall be connected with
the said drain an inlet-pipe for the admission
of fresh air, and the oil-pipe within the house
shall be continued above the roof and left open.
20 that the whole drain may be thoroughly and
constantly ventilated.
Bee. IL. Whenever any person desires to
construct house drain, intended to be con-
neoted with or discharge into any sewer, he
shall, before beginning work upon the same,
deposit with the City Engineer plan thereof,
which shall show the whole course of the drain
from its connection with the sewer to its ter
minus within the house. with the location Of
all branches, traps and fixtures to be connected
Herewith, said plan or a copy thereof to be left
on file in the Office of the said City Engineer.
If, upon inspection of said plan, the City En-
gineer shall find that the same does not con-
form to the requirements of this ordinance he
shall not issue any permit for. its construction
or connection with any sewer, and it shall be