[Amended 4-13-1959 by Ord. No. 172]
This article shall be known and may be cited
as the "Plumbing Code of the Village of Lawrence."
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
That part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside
of the walls of a building, vault or area and extending to and connecting
with the house sewer.
That part of the main drain or sewer extending from a point
four feet outside of the outer front wall of the building, vault or
area to its connection with a public sewer, private sewer or cesspool
and septic tanks.
[1]A person engaged by contract or otherwise, in any other capacity
than as an employee to a duly licensed master plumber, in the work
of installing, setting up or putting together any plumbing fixtures,
pipes or appurtenances of any kind, which are connected or are to
be connected with the gas, water or sewerage system of a building
or in the work of connecting such plumbing fixtures, pipes or appurtenances
with the gas, water or sewerage system.
The profession, art or trade of, and all work done and all
materials used in and for:
Introducing, maintaining and extending a supply
of water through a pipe or pipes, or any appurtenances thereof, in
a building, premises or establishment.
Installing, connecting or repairing any system
of drainage whereby foul waste, cooling water, rain or surplus water,
gas, odor, vapor or fluid is discharged or proposed to be discharged
through a pipe or pipes from any building, lot, premises or establishment
into any main, public or private sewer, drain, pit, box, filter bed,
leaching well, septic tank or other receptacle or into any natural
or artificial body of water or watercourse, upon private or public
property.
Ventilating any building, sewer or fixture or
appurtenance connected therewith.
Connecting any building, lot, premises or establishment
with any service pipe, building sewer, water pipe, main, public or
private sewer or underground structure.
Performing all classes of work generally done
by plumbers.
Includes the hot- and cold-water supply of a building, distributing
pipes, hot-water storage tanks and connections thereof, the fixtures
and fixture traps; the soil, waste and vent pipes; the house drain
and house sewer: the stormwater drainage with its devices, appurtenances
and connections, all within or adjacent to the building.
Main sewers that are not constructed by or under the supervision
of the Village.
Any vertical line of pipe having outlets above the floor
of a first story for water closet connections.
Any special pipe provided to ventilate a system of piping
and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
Any vertical line of pipe having outlets above the first
floor for fixtures other than water closets.
Except where the context clearly requires a
literal interpretation of the provisions of this article, which is
hereby declared to be remedial, it shall be construed liberally to
secure the beneficial interests and purposes thereof: public safety,
health and welfare and safety to life and property.
No new plumbing or drainage work or extension
of or alteration to existing plumbing or drainage installations shall
be undertaken or performed hereafter, except in conformance with the
provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector,
and he is hereby given the power and authority, to enforce the provisions
of this article.
An Inspector of Plumbing may be appointed by
the Board of Trustees to serve at its pleasure, and, if an Inspector
of Plumbing is appointed, he shall serve under the immediate direction
of the Building Inspector. If no Inspector of Plumbing is appointed,
the duties and powers of the Inspector of Plumbing shall be performed
by the Building Inspector, and references in this article to the Plumbing
Inspector shall apply to the Building Inspector as if specifically
named.
The Plumbing Inspector shall examine applications
for permits, and, if the same are found to comply with the provisions
of this article, a permit for the work specified shall be issued.
He shall also examine all plumbing work as the same is being installed
or performed to see that it complies with the provisions of this article
and the conditions of the permit.
Whenever the Plumbing Inspector finds, upon
examination, that a violation of a provision of this article or any
unsafe or unhealthful condition exists, he shall endeavor to compel
an immediate correction of the conditions. Failing in this, he shall
make a report of the condition deemed to be unsafe or unhealthful
or in violation of said code and deliver a copy of such report to
the owner, agent or other person in charge of or in control of the
premises and report such violation to the Building Inspector, who
shall enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate remedies
as provided by law.
In the discharge of his duties, the Plumbing
Inspector shall have authority, at any hour of the day or night, to
enter any premises, building or structure.
The Plumbing Inspector shall keep a record of
applications filed, permits issued, certificates issued and reports,
notices and orders issued.
The Building Inspector shall make a monthly
report of fees collected to the Village Administrator, who shall include
it in the monthly report to the Board of Trustees.
No person shall engage in the business of plumbing
in the Village of Lawrence or apply for a plumbing permit or supervise
any plumbing work in the Village unless he holds, unrevoked and unsuspended,
a license as a master plumber from the proper authorities of the Town
of Hempstead or is licensed by the Examining Board of Plumbers of
the Village.
The Examining Board of Plumbers of the Village
shall consist of three members appointed by the Board of Trustees.
The present Examining Board of Plumbers shall continue without change
in membership or terms held for the respective members.
A.Â
The terms of office of the members shall be three
years and shall be so integrated that the term of one member shall
expire on the first Monday in July of each year.
B.Â
They shall serve without pay, unless the Board of
Trustees should provide compensation.
C.Â
It shall be the duty of the Board to ascertain the
fitness and competency of persons desiring to do plumbing work in
the Village who do not hold a license or certificate sufficient to
entitle them to do such work in the Village.
D.Â
The Board may adopt rules to govern its procedure
in discharging its duties.
The master plumber who applies for a plumbing
permit or who supervises the work shall be personally responsible
for the quality of the work and the competency of the workmen who
perform the work. He shall not sign, authenticate or submit any application
or act as agent for, or allow his name to be used by, any person who
is not a master plumber or who does not hold a certificate of competency.
The Building Inspector may suspend a certificate of competency or temporarily suspend the authority of a master plumber to perform work in the Village in case a violation of this article or Chapter 162, Sewers and Cesspools, should occur in the course of the work. In such case, he shall report the matter to the Board of Trustees at its next meeting, and the Board of Trustees at that meeting or at a subsequent meeting may, after giving the accused notice and an opportunity to be heard, continue the suspension for such period of time as it may determine or may permanently revoke the certificate of competency and the authority of the master plumber to engage in work in the Village.
It shall not be lawful to install any new plumbing or drainage work in a building or structure or to extend or alter any existing plumbing or drainage work, whether such work is to be connected with the sewer or not, without first filing with the Building Department an application, in writing, and obtaining a permit. Such application and permit shall be in addition to any other application or permit required by Chapter 212, Zoning, or this chapter.
A.Â
Such applications shall be made by a licensed master
plumber on forms furnished by the Building Department.
B.Â
The Building Department may require such application
to be accompanied by plans. when such are necessary for an intelligent
understanding of the work applied for.
C.Â
No changes shall be made in the specifications or
plans for plumbing or drainage work after a permit has been issued,
unless an amendment showing such changes has been made to the application
and has been approved by the Plumbing Inspector and unless an additional
fee for any additional work has been paid.
D.Â
Repairs to existing plumbing and drainage may be made
without filing an application and securing a permit, but such repairs
shall not be construed to include new vertical or horizontal soil,
waste or vent pipes: connecting additional fixtures to existing soil
or waste pipes; main house drains; or the replacement of existing
fixtures with others.
E.Â
Domestic hot-water hookups made in conjunction with
either new or conversion-type hand-fired or automatic fuel-fired installations
shall require an additional permit applied for by a duly licensed
plumber.
Every application shall be examined as soon
as practicable after filing, and, if it conforms to this article,
a permit for the work shall be issued.
A.Â
Every such permit shall be signed by the Building
Inspector.
B.Â
Fees. The fee for a permit for plumbing or drainage
work shall be as provided in Chapter A219, Fees, of the Code of the
Village of Lawrence. The payment of the fees herein provided shall
not relieve the holder of the permit from the payment of other fees
prescribed by law or ordinance.
A.Â
Upon the completion of plumbing or drainage work for
which a permit was issued under this article, the Plumbing Inspector
shall inspect said work and shall issue a certificate of approval
of said work if the work has been done in accordance with this article
and other ordinances and local laws applicable thereto.[1]
B.Â
It shall be unlawful for an owner to use or permit
the use of any plumbing or drainage until such certificate of approval
has been issued by the Plumbing Inspector.
The owner of a building, structure or premises, or part thereof, where anything in violation of this article shall be placed or shall exist and any architect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith and who may have assisted in the commission of such violation shall each be guilty of a separate offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in § 70-36D.
The Village Attorney may institute, in the name
of the Village, any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent an
unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair,
conversion, maintenance or use or to restrain, correct or abate a
violation or to prevent an illegal act, conduct, business or use in
or about any premises.
No omission or neglect of duty on the part of
the Building Inspector or the Plumbing Inspector shall legalize the
erecting, construction, alteration, removal, use or occupancy of a
building or structure that does not conform to the provisions of this
article.
A new installation of a plumbing system in a building or structure shall be connected with a public sewer as provided in Chapter 162, Sewers and Cesspools.
Before beginning work on a house sewer, notice
shall be given to the Plumbing Inspector. No work shall be covered
until it has been inspected and approved by him.
Private sewage disposal facilities shall be
constructed and installed within the Village limits in compliance
with the rules and regulations of the Nassau County Department of
Health and under such other conditions as may be prescribed.
Waterborne sewage disposal facilities for dwellings
shall be installed in the front yard wherever possible, and, for any
other location, approval shall first be obtained from the Building
Department of the Village of Lawrence.
It shall be unlawful to throw or deposit, or
cause to be thrown or deposited, in any fixture, vessel or receptacle
connected with a public sewer or with a plumbing system connected
with a public sewer any matter other than feces, urine, the necessary
water closet paper and liquid house slops, unless special permission
is obtained for the discharge of other wastes.
All new buildings, including stores, apartments
and public buildings, must have a properly vented and water-supplied
sink in the cellar for indirect wastes or a properly vented plugged
connection for future accommodation.
Where cesspools or overflow pools are discontinued
following connections to a public sewer or for any other reason, the
owner of the land on which they are situated shall have the pools
emptied, cleaned and backfilled with earth, sand or other acceptable
clean material within 30 days from the date of discontinuance or within
30 days from the date of connection with the public sewer, whichever
date is earlier.
To the extent that this article may be inconsistent with Chapter 162, Sewers and Cesspools, the requirements of both this article and Chapter 162 shall be complied with. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to permit what Chapter 162, Sewers and Cesspools, does not permit, and nothing in Chapter 162, Sewers and Cesspools, shall be deemed to permit what this article does not permit.
