Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-02-24
ORDINANCE No. 1876

III LAN CANN vi " III AAI SpblAAS
of Cape May" New Jersey.
Section l.. BE IT ORDAINED by the
Board OF Commissioners of THE City of
Wildwood, in the County of Cape May"
that every person or corporation engaged
in the plumbing busineS 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 ap-
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 ftde master plumber for registration
and the payment of twenty-five dollars
(S25.0O), and no person other han a regis
tered plumber shall be allowed to carry
on or engag in the plumbing business or
make any connections with any sewer,
soil or waste pipe connected Herewith.
Sec. z. 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 re-registratiOn he shall pay one dol
lar ($1.0O).
Sec. 3. That any master plumber, firm
or corporation not holding a Plumbers
Certificate in the City of Wildwood shall
pay a fee of five dollars $500 for a
special permit for each and every permit
obtained above the charge of filing plans
and the charge of extra fixtures.
Sec. A.. Every registered plumber shall
have a BONA fide 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. >. 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 sDecifca-
lions after they have 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-
ficationS for drainage will be furnished on
application at the office of the Plumbing
Inspector. One vertical drawing win be
sufficient fer 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.
Sec. Z. When the plan of any plumbing
and drainage system is filed in the office
of the Plumbing Inspector a fee of fifty
cents G.5O) per fixture, fifty cents $50
for the first five fixtures and twenty-five
cents ($.25) each for all additional fixture;
will be charged, the word fixtures being
here meant to include all openings left fol-
waste pipes whether fixtures are set oil
not, to defray the expenses of inspection
the fling of plans and experimenting thu
testing of the work.
Sec. 8. Plans will be approved or re
jected within twenty-four hours whel
practicable, and under no circumstance
will a delay beyond ten days be permitted
All plans must be filed with Plumbing In
spectOr and fees paid before starting an!
drainage work.
Sec. 8. No drainage work shall be GOV
cred or concealed in any way until aftel
it has been examined and approved by thu
Plumbing Inspector. A written motto,
must be sent to the Plumbing Inspector
when the work is sufficiently advanced fol-
such inspection and test; Immediately or
completion of the work application must bt
made for final inspection.
Under no circumstances shall sanitary
plumbing work be used until the same ha!
first been tested in the presence of The
Plumbing Inspector with the water test
or, if that is not practicable with the pep
permint, mercury. smoke or other reliable
fest and if the said test is S9tiSfqptOrV HI
shall issue a certificate to that effect.
When defective pipes are discovered
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
provisions of this ordinance in the con
Struction of any drainage work, and the
failure to correct the fault after notiica-
ton, will be deemed sufficient cause tC
place his name on the delinquent list unit
he has complied with said regulations.
No master plumber shall construct OF
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 9
sewer on an adjacent street or alley, il
must be laid along the alley to the nearest
street and down the roadway of the street
to the nearest branch pipe, and no
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 aulke 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 CD 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 broken 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
drain pipe is above the cellar floor, shall
be a plain cast iron pipe or galvanized pipe
with screwed joints properly put together