The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-20
ORDINANCE NO. 14s.

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ORDINANCE NO. 14s.
An ordinance to regulate plumbing in
the City of Kennewick. Creating the
office of Plumbing Inspector, and fixing
his compensation.
The city council Of the City of Ken
newick do ordain as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby created
the Office of Plumbing Inspector, in the
City Of Kennewick, which said Plumb
ing Inspector shall be appointed by the
Mayor, and shall be subject to removal
by the Mayor at will.
Section 2. All plumbing hereafter
constructed, put in, or installed within
the city shall be done in the manner,
and be constructed and installed of the
materials hereinafter stipulated, and
the same, before use for the purpose
for which it is constructed or installed,
shall be inspected and approved by the
Plumbing Inspector for the City Of
Kennewick.
Section 3. Before any person, firm,
or corporation shall be allowed to in
stall any plumbing in any house or
building or shall be permitted to tap
or make connection with any sewer
main within the City Of Kennewick, a
permit shall be obtained for such tap,
connection, or plumbing from the City
Clerk, which permit may be obtained
by presenting written application
setting forth the plumbing or work to
be done, and the payment of a fee as
follows:
i For the installing of any plumbing
FOR any house or building, the sum Of
81 90, and for each fixture above seven,
an additional sum Of ten cents, and for
each permit to connect with the main
sewer, the sum of fifty cents.
Section 4. The Plumbing Inspector
shall be notified when any work is
ready for inspection; and all work
shall be left uncovered and convenient
for examination until inspected and
approved. No notice shall be sent for
any inspection until the work is en-
tirely ready.
Section 5. The Plumbing Inspector
shall examine the work within one
working day after receiving notice that
it is ready for inspection.
Section 6. Plumbing work shall be
tested by the water test in the pres
ence of the Plumbing Inspector. Such
test shall include all sewer, soil, waste
and vent pipes, the lead branches and
ferule joints within the building.
Section 2. When the work is COM
plered a final inspection shall be made
by the Plumbing Inspector, and no
plumbing work shall be used until this
Inspection shall have been made and
a certificate in triplicate that the work
has been approved has been issued by
the Plumbing Inspector, one to the
master plumber doing the work, one
to be fled with the City Clerk, and
one to be retained by the Plumbing In
spector and filed as record of his
Office.
Section 8. Sewer pipes in yards
shall be of the best quality vitrified
pipes, with cemented joints. They shall
not be laid any nearer than two feet
to any exterior wall of building. No
sewer pipes shall be laid in bad or made
ground; but in such cases sewers be-
meath the ground shall be of cast iron
pipes.
Section 9. All sewers, soil or waste
pipes within the building shall be sup
ported by substantial piers, or prop
erly secured to the walls or suspended
to floor timbers by strong iron hangers.
When sewers are necessarily laid below
the floors, manholes shall be constructed
| to give access to all cleanouts.
Section 10. Where the leader is
within the building, it shall be Of cast
iron pipe, as provided in Section II.
| When outside the building, if of sheet
metal with slip joints, and if connected
with the sewer, it shall be trapped, the
| trap being arranged. so as to prevent
| freezing in every case; where leader
opens near a window or light shaft, it
shall be properly trapped near its base.
The joints between inside iron leaders
and the roof shall be made tight by
means of caulking ferule, and lead or
| copper pipes, properly connected to
rain water inlet on roof.
| Section II. All iron soil and waste
pipes shall be of cast iron dipped in
coal tar pitch while hot, so as to form
good, hard, uniform coating. All
cast iron pipes must be sound and free
from holes or cracks. Cracked hub
pipes or fittings will not be accepted,
and all soil pipes must be of the
grade known as standard.
| Section -. When fifteen or more
fixtures discharge into line of soil
pipe, said soil pipe shall not be less
| than six inches in diameter; and in all
other cases the soil pipe receiving the
discharge of water-closets shall not be
less than four inches in diameter; and
all soil and waste pipes shall have a
fall of at least one-quarter (A) of an
inch per foot, and the fall shall be so
regulated that no pipe line shall descend
at lesser angle than As degrees to
| the main No double hub or soil sleeves
shall be used in soil or waste pipes
below the highest fixture. All open
| ings in soil, sewer, waste or vent pipes,
let for future use, shall be closed by
plugs, screwed, caulked or soldered on.
! Section 10. Joints in cast iron pipes