Imperial Valley press., 1917-01-05
ORDINANCE NO. 1853.
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ton, except the renewing of old fix
lures with new ones.
7. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son, firm or corporation to install
any plumbing or plumbing fixtures in
any building, or on any premises in
side of the property line, without first
having obtained a permit therefor
from the Board of Health of the City
of El Centro as hereinafter provided.
8. Before installing any plumbing
or plumbing fixtures in any build
ing, or on any premises inside of the
property line, the owner of the pros
erty, or the .splumber to whom this
contract has been let for doing the
work, shall make application to the
Board of Health of the City of Ell
Centre for a permit to do said work.
Said application shall be made on
blanks furnished by the Board of
Health, and shall be accompanied by
a plan of the proposed plumbing
work. Said application and plan shall
be carefully examined by the Plumbing
Inspector, and if found to comply with
the provisions of this Ordinance, and
to be to the satisfaction of the said
Board of Healh, and of the Plumbing
Inspector, a permit to do said work
shall thereupon be issued 20 said own
er or plumber by the said Board Of
Health, countersigned by the Plumbing
Inspector.
The applicant for said permit shall,
before the issuance to him of said per-
nit, pay all fees required to be paid
to the. Plumbing Inspector by Sub
Section 8 of Section 2 of this Ordi-
nance.
10. Every person violating any of
the provisions of Section l or Section
2 of this Ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor. and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished
by fine in any sum not exceeding
$4,000, or by imprisonment in the
City Jail of said City of El Centro
for a period not exceeding 80 days.
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
SECTION III.
Quality of Material and Workmanship.
/. All material must be of good
quality and free from defects. The
work must be done in thorough and
workmanlike manner.
Arrangement of Pipes, Fittings and
Connections.
2. The arrangement of sewer, drain,
soil, waste and vent pipes must be as
direct as possible, as provided in these
rules: Ali changes in the direction of
sewer, drain, soil and waste pipes
shall be made with Y branches 1-6, 1-8
and 1-16 bends. If on horizontal runs,
clean-cuts must be used.
3. The sewer. soil and waste pipe,
when it lies under or in a building,
or to cesspools and to septic tanks,
shall be equal to the quality known
to the trade as standard iron pipe,
except that in buildings of three sto-
ries or more in height, other than
residences, lines of soil or waste pipe
buried in the ground must be extra
heavy cast iron pipes, or when the
lines cf vertical soil pipe reach a
height Of 36 feet or more, measuring
from the first floor line to the high
est fixture on such building, the en-
tire soil and waste pipe shal}- be of
the quality known as extra heavy,
and the fittings to the same
shall be extra heavy, except
the two top floors. which may
be of the weight and thickness known
as standard soil pipe; provided that
vitrified pipe may be used from a
point three feet outside of building
to sewer line.
a. All sewer and soil pipes shall
have continuous fall of not less than
4 inch to the foot. and, if possible,
more. Where practicable, they shall
he run along the cellar wall, or if
laid under the cellar or lower floor
of building, be hung with iron hang
ers, securely fastened to the floor
ioists. When it is not possible to run
and fasten the cast-iron sewer pipe
as above directed, it may be run in
a trench cut to uniform grade. All
soil and waste pipes are to be hung
with suitable approved hangers.
S. All joints on cast-iron pipes and