The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-19
Ordinance No. 50.

ordinance No. 83.
An ordinance providing for. approving and
adopting certain rules and regulations,
prescribed by the board of health of the
city of Virginia for the construction, al
iteration and inspection of the plumbing
and sewerage placed in or in connection
with any building in said city of Virgin
ia, the fees therefor, and providing pen
atty for the violation of said rules and
regulations.
The city council of the city of Virginia do
ordain as follows:
MUST BE A LICENSED PLUMBER.
Section l. No person or persons shall. af
ter July LIST. 1908, construct, extend. alter
dlsconnect or repair any plumbing work or
house drainage. or construct cess pools for
fee or other reward paid to him or them,
or to any other person or persons. firm or
corporation for such work, or engage in the
plumbing business in any of it's branches.
unless he or they shall first obtain a license
as a plumber plumbers from the city
council.
INSPECTION.
Section 2 The department of health
shall be notified when any work is ready
for inspection. All work shall be left un-
| covered and convenient for examination
until inspected and approved. No notice
shall be sent for any inspection until the
work is entirely ready.
TINE FOR INSPECTION.
Section 3. The plumbing inspector shall
examine the work within one working day
after receiving notice that it is ready for
! inspection.
| AIR TEST.
Section 4. Plumbing work shall be test
Ell by one pound air test. or by a pepper
mint test at the discretion of the owner of
the building in which such plumbing work
is being done by the contracting plumber,
in the presence of the Inspector of Plumb
ing.
Such tests shall include all sewers, above
ground, soil, vent and waste pipes, the lead
| branches and ferrlle joints within the
| building.
FINAL INSPECTION.
Section 5. When the work is completed a
| final inspection shall be made by the In
spector of Plumbing, to consist of all soil
and waste pipes. traps and vents. No
plumbing work shall be used until this in
spection shall have been made.
UNDERGROUND SEWERS.
Section Is The sewer pipes in the yards
shall be of the very best quality of vitritied
pipes with Cemented joints. They shall
not he laid nearer than two feet to any ex-
terror wall of the building, nor will they he
allowed i'll any bad ground: in all such
! cases the sewer beneath the ground shall
be of cast iron pipes.
SEWERS WITHIN THE BUILDINGS.
Section Z. All sewers, soil or waste pipes
within the building shall be supported by
substantial pipes or properly secured to
| walls or suspended to floor ti,nbers by
strong iron hangers. When sewers are nee
essarily laid below the floor. man holes
shall be built to give access to all clean
| outs. All Clean-outs to be brought ND flush
with the floor
CLEAN.OUTs.
Section =. There shall be !, clean-out at
the end of each horizontal line of soil pine
at a point immediately on the inside of Gel
lar walls and in the kitchen sink waste
pipe. All Clean-outs shall be closed by
| brass screw covers and shall be kept Access
Sible.
CAST IRON PIPES.
Section9. All cast iron pipes shall be
either ct the grade known as 'Standard
Pipe or of the grade known as Extra
Heavy" pipe. sound and free from defects,
| thoroughly coated inside and out with coal
| tar. asphaltunl. or of pitch tested to fifty
(5O) pounds hydrOstatic pressure to the
square inch. except that dwellings and
buildings of over two stories Exclusive of
basement and attiC) above the curb shall
use Extra Heavy" pipe.
SIZE OF WASTE PIPE.
be as follows:
Those receiving the discharge from eight
fixtures shall he three inches in diameter:
| those receiving the discharge from three
to seven fixtures, shall be two inches in
diameter, and those receiving the dis
charge of less than three fixtures shall not
be less than one and onetinarter inches in
diameter. and no wrought iron pipe shall
be used for Il waste pipe.
JOINTS, HOW MADE.
Section II. Joints in cast iron pipes shall
be made with pure lead. we'll Caulked and
no paint, varnish or putty will be allowed
until the Joint has been tested; Joints in
wrought iron pipes shall be screw joints
joints in lead pipes shall in all cases be
wiped and joints between lead and iron
pipes shall be made by cast or drawn brass
or combination brass and lead screw min
pies and unions or with brass or Co1nbiua-
ton lead caulking ferrules of grade known
as extra heavy and shall be the full size of
the iron pipe.
VENT PIPES.
Section II. Each and every trap shall be
ventilated by an air pipe except "Anti-Sy-
phon traps accepted by the inspector of
plumbing. which need not be vented All
vent pipes shall be cast iron. galvanized
iron or lead. THE branch "T'' of vent pip,
shall be set above the fixtures so that the
vent cannot act as waste pipe. All vent
pipes shall be provided with trap screws or
union connection near wall.
SIZE OF VENT PIPES.
Section H. The size of vent pines excen+
for water closets and slop sinks shall not
be less than that of the trap which it serves.
"A pipe which ventilates the traps of water
closets shall not be less than one and one
half inches in diameter, and slop sinks not
less than one and one quarter inches. Vent
pipes from no more than eight trans NAV
be combined by branching together and
then carried into a four inch soil nine NJ