The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-10-28


order of the Board and the payment of
the expense of cutting it off and con-
Meeting it again and such other terms
as the Board may determine and sat
| isfactory understanding with the party
or parties that no further cause OF COM
plant shall arise, and in case OF such
violation the Board shall have the right
to declare any payment made for light
or water by the person committing
such violation to be forfeited and the
same shall thereupon be forfeited.
Section 10. No service connections
or other attachments to any OF the
water mains shall be made except by
galvanized wrought iron or lead pipe,
and in no case will lead pipe be allowed
except such as is known to the trade as
extra strong and no bore less than
| three-eighths of an inch or more than
| three-uuarters of an inch, and no tap or
| bore other than the above will be allow
ed except by special arrangement with
the board. All joints in lead pipe must
be wipe joints and all connections with
mains must be at least two feet from
any Joint therein or from any other
connection. All electric wireing, lamps,
apparatus and fixtures used In connec-
ton with the electric lighting system
shall be in accordance with the rules
and requirements of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, or in such other
manner as the Village Council or the
Board Of Light and Water Commits
sioners shall direct.
| Section IL. Any plumber, plpe-ftter,
| electrician or lineman before making
any connection with any service pipe,
main or wire, or placing repairing or
removing any pipe, wire or other appar-
atus or fixture, used in connection with
said electric light or waterworks system,
shall furnish to the board of light and
water commissioners satisfactory eVl-
dence that he is competent to perform
such work, and shall procure from the
| Board a license therefor for which Ii
cense he shall pay to the secretary Of
| the Board the sum of five dollars. Such
plumber, pipe-fitter. electrician or line
men shall be responsible to the village
for all damages the electric light or
Waterworlxs system may sustain at their
hands, and he shall execute a bond run
ming to the village Of Yale in the sum
of One Thousand Dollars with two
good and sufficient sureties to be APP
proved by the Common Council to in
| demnify and save harmless the Village
of Yale of and from accident, damages
and losses which said systems may sus-
| tain by reason of their failure to COM
ply with all the rules and regulations of
which are now or may be hereafter es-
tablished by the Village Council or the
| Board of Light and Water Commits
sioners in relation to said system.
Section II. Plumbers, pipe-fitters,
electricians and linemen shall make full
and complete returns to the secretary
of the Board of the uses for and to
which the electric current or water is
applied under any permit granted. said
returns shall be made by the plumber,
pipe-titter, electrician or lineman doing
| the work within forty-eight hours after
| the completion of said work, and must
contain a complete list of all articles
and fixtures used in connection there
with, as the electric current or water
will not be turned an any premises un-
| til after said return is made and the
| work reported to be in accordance with
the rules and regulations prescribed.
Section b. Plumbers and pipe-ftters
in making returns of permits shall give
| the name of street in which the con-
nection has been made, the side Of
premises at which the service pipe en-
tiers and must state accurately the dis
lance of the service cock from the near
side line of the nearest street or alley,
block or lot running parallel with said
service pipe or from some other well
defined public place, the measurements
to be recorded in feet and inches, and
such return shall be made in such man
ner and form as will enable the secre-
tary of the board to make record of
the exact location of such service cock
and pipe and of the connection of the
service pipe and main.
Section If. Electrician and linemen
in making returns of permits shall give
the names of the owners, street and
building, number of lot and block
where connections are made with the
main lines of the lighting system or
such other description of such connec-
ton as the secretary of the Board may
require to enable him to make record
of the exact location thereof.
Section 10. No plumber, pIpe-fitter or
any other person shall make any at
tachment to any old pipe or water fix
lures in premises from which the water
has been shut off and the supply dis
continued without the party desiring
such work done having first made APP
plication and obtained reissue and
plumber, pipe-fitter or other person
make any alteration in any pipe or
water fixture attached to the water
works distributing pipes to conduct
water into adjoining premises or into
stables, baths, water-closets, wash
basins, cisterns, fountains or any other
purposes whatever without application
having first been made and a written
permit obtained from the board of light
and water commissioners for each and
every job of such notifications in the
water fixtures or pipes, and in no case
shall any plumber or pipe-ftter after
the completion of any job of plumbing,
work or pipe fitting, be it the first intro
duction of service pipes, an extension
or repair, leave the water turned on on
the premises, but shall in all cases close
the service cock and return his permit.
Section rs. No electrician, lineman
or other person shall make any connec-
ton with the electric light system with
out having first made application to
and obtaining a permit therefor from
the board of light and water com
missioners.