Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
ORDINANCE No. 1876

mouse drainage. ventilation and cesspools
in "The City of Wildwood, in the County
of Cape May" New Jersey.
Section 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the
Board of Commissioner Of The City of
Wildwood in the County of Cape May"
tina every person or corporation engaged
in the plumbing business in the City of
Wildwood, in the County of Cape May as
a master plumber, and every person, firm
or corporation coming from other places
for the purpose of doing plumbing work in
the City of Wildwood, in the County of
Cape May as a master plumber, shall APP
pear in person or by representative at the
office OF the Plumbing Inspector and regis
ter his or their name and business address,
and receive a certificate of registry upon
presenting satisfactory proof that he is a
bona hde master plumber for registration
and the payment of twenty-five dollars
C$25.0O), and no person other than a regis
tered plumber shall be allowed to carry
on or engage in the plumbing business or
make any connections with any sewer,
soil or waste pipe connected Herewith.
Sec. 2. At the expiration of each calen-
dar year said certificate of registry. shall
be null and void. Any registered master
plumber desiring to continue in the plumb
, ing business for the ensuing year shall
between the first and twenty-fourth day
of December of each year surrender the
said certificate of registry for the then
current year to the Plumbing Inspector
and re-register his or their names and
address and places of business and for
said REPRESENTATION he shall pay one dol
lar C$1.00).
Sec. 3. Tha any master plumber, firm
or corporation not holding a Plumbers
Certificate in the City of Wildwood shall
pay a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for a
special permit for each and every permit
obtained above the charge of filing plans
and the charge of extra fixtures.
Sec. 4. Every registered plumber shall
have a bona hde place Of business and
shall give immediate notice of any change
in his place of business or retirement of
business and shall surrender his certificate
of registry to the Plumbing Inspector.
Sec. 5. The drainage of all buildings,
public or private, and the alterations of
the same, shall be executed in accordance
with plans and specifications previously
approved in writing by the Plumbing In
spector. There shall be a separate plan for
each building, public or private. accom-
panied by specifications describing the
drainage of such buildings on blanks,
prescribed and furnished for this purpose,
showing the size and kind of pipes, the
traps, closet and fixtures, etc, TO be used,
the same to be placed on file in the office
of the Plumbing Inspector. Plans must
be drawn legibly, in ink. and old work
shall be shown in red ink. No change
shall be permitted in plans and specifica-
lions after they nave been approved, unless
application is first made in writing by the
owner or a duly authorized agent or at
torney. and the proposed change or amend
ed plans have been submitted and ap-
proved by the Plumbing Inspector. Said
drawings and description to be furnished
by the owner or his authorized agent, and
prepared by the architect, builder or
plumber and submitted by a registered
master plumber for approval. Application
for a change in plan must be made in
writing by the owner or agent.
Sec. 6. Blanks for drawings and speci-
: hcations for drainage will be furnished on
application at the office of the Plumbing
Inspector. One vertical drawing will be
sufficient for a building where it can be
made to show all the work; if the work is
intricate and cannot be shown by one
drawing, two or more shall be made. A
: ground floor plan of the building showing
the position of the main house and branch
drains shall in all cases be submitted.
e Sec. Z. When the plan of any plumbing
e and drainage system is filed in the office
t of the Plumbing Inspector a fee of fifty
cents ($.50) per fixture, fifty cents $3.50
k for the first five fixtures and twenty-five
cents ($.25) each for all additional fixtures
viii be charged, the word fixtures being
o here meant to include all openings left for
waste pipes whether fixtures are set or
: not, to defray the expenses of inspection.
: the filing of plans and experimenting the
testing of the work.
Y Sec. 8. Plans will be approved or re-
jected--within twenty-four hours when
y practicable, and under no circumstances
t win a delay beyond ten days be permitted.
All plans must be filed with Plumbing In
d spector and fees paid before starting any
ell drainage work.
Sec. 9. Nc drainage work shall be COW
e cred or concealed in any way until after
it has been examined and approved by the
Plumbing Inspector. A written notice
must be sent to the Plumbing Inspector
e when the work is sufficiently advanced for
v such inspection and test Immediately on
completion of the work application must be
made for final inspection.
Under no circumstances shall sanitary
: plumbing work be used until the same has
n first been tested in the presence of the
f Plumbing Inspector with the water test,
or, if that is not practicable with the pep
permint, mercury, smoke or other reliable
test, and if the said test is satisfactory he
:. shall issue a certificate to hat effect.
When defective pipes are discovered
k they shall be removed and replaced by
sound pipes. Defective joints shall be
made tight and conform with the require
ments of this ordinance.
The failure on the part of the Master
:, Plumber to make said application for in
spection or the violation of any of the
i provisions of this ordinance in the con-
: struction of any drainage work. and the
: failure to correct the fault after n%otifica-
}, ton, will be deemed sufficient cause to
place his name on the delinquent list until
t he has complied with said regulations.
No master plumber shall construct or
t alter a system of drainage during the time
his name appears on the said delinquent
list.
Sec. 10. When there is no sewer in the
: alley adjoining the lot on which a build
: ing is placed and it is necessary to con-
struct a private sewer to connect with a
| sewer on an adjacent street or alley, it
must be laid along the alley to the nearest
| street and down the roadway of the street
1 to the nearest branch pipe, and not
through yards or private property without
a special permit from the Plumbing In
| spector.
Sec. II. All horizontal drains within the
walls of buildings shall be of cast iron,
well caulked leaden joints or wrought gal
vanized pipe, screwed joints so located as
to be readily accessible for inspection. The
house drain within buildings shall be Sc
curely hung on the cellar wall or properly
laid on brick piers, eight (S) inches thick
and not more than seven % feet apart,
unless this is impracticable, in which
it must be laid in a trench cut at the
grade. The house drain shall have a fall
of at least one quarter of an inch to a
foot, and more if possible. When a pipe
passes under a wall of a building there
shall be a relieving arch to prevent the
pipe being broke by the settling of the
foundation. Said drains shall be provided
with openings for cleansing purposes, the
same to be covered with screw plugs.
All other drains or soil pipes connected
with the main drain or where the main