[Amended 2-9-1974; 5-17-1988; 6-21-1988; 5-15-1990; 5-3-1994; 4-20-2005; 12-20-2016]
A.
Plumbing and drainage of all buildings, public and private, shall
be executed in accordance with the plans, specifications and drawings
submitted to the Plumbing Inspector for approval. A plan-filing fee
of $45 shall be charged on all plumbing and drainage work to be performed.
If the plans, specifications and drawings provide for a connection
with the sanitary sewer system, the owner, plumber or general contractors
shall pay a connection and inspection fee as hereinafter set forth
for the connection to the sanitary sewer system.
B.
The connection and inspection fee shall be required for construction
of all buildings, public and private, commencing after the effective
date of this section and shall not affect existing buildings. Remodeling
will be considered as new work under this section.
C.
The following connection and inspection fee shall become effective
on the effective date of this section.
(1)
For each single-family home, first unit of a duplex, first unit of
multiple housing or first unit of motels and or/ hotels for which
a building permit has been issued, the connection and inspection fee
shall be $150 in addition to $20 per fixture, except in the case of
remodeling, where the fee charged will be $20 per fixture, plus a
plan filing fee of $45.
(2)
For the second unit of a duplex and for the second and all subsequent
units of multiple dwellings for which a building permit has been issued,
the connection and inspection fee shall be $80 in addition to a twenty-dollar
per fixture fee.
(3)
For the second unit and all subsequent units of motels and/or hotels
for which a building permit has been issued, the connection and inspection
fee shall be $80 in addition to a twenty-dollar per fixture.
(4)
For all new structures not falling into the classification of a single-family
home, a duplex, a multiple-housing unit or a motel or hotel for which
a building permit has been issued, the connection and inspection fee
shall be as follows (new or remodeling): $150 and $20 per fixture
thereafter. The following will constitute chargeable fixtures: water
closets, lavatories, sinks (any kind) drinking fountains, tubs (any
kind), backflow units, expansion tanks, catch basins, 100 feet of
sanitary, water and storm piping, downspouts, and any and all other
units connected to the sanitary sewer discharging into the same.
(5)
Any person commencing construction or repairs of any plumbing or
plumbing remodeling without first paying the required connection and
inspection fee shall be required to pay a fee of $250 in addition
to doubling the normal fee at the time of making late application
for a plumbing permit.
(a)
Late filing: Upon start of any work pursuant to the issuing
of a Plumbing Permit, the permit holder shall schedule proper inspections
as requested by the Plumbing Inspector or as noted on the plumbing
permit. Failure to schedule said inspections will result in a fee
of $100 per inspection.
(b)
A fee of $75 will be charged for any required re-inspections
whenever a first inspection fails.
(6)
The Plumbing Inspector shall stop all construction
wherever a person commences any plumbing or plumbing remodeling without
having first paid the required connection and inspection fees.
[Added 5-15-1990]
(7)
If no provision in this ordinance is made for fees for a particular
situation, such shall be charged at one fixture unit at a cost of
$20 per fixture unit. Sewer and water repairs shall be based on one-hundred-foot
units of piping and a fee of $35 per unit plus a filing fee of $45
will be charged. Further, sewer and water laterals in subdivision
construction shall be charged at one-hundred-foot units which shall
be charged at $35 per unit, plus a filing fee of $45.
The definitions given herein deal only with
certain terms used in these rules, in the sense that they are used
herein. These definitions are not of a general nature and are not
generally applicable beyond the sense used in these rules.
Acceptable to or accepted by the Inspector of Plumbing.
Part of the system which extends horizontally at a slight
grade, with or without lateral or vertical extensions or vertical
arms, from the main to receive fixture outlets not directly connected
to the main.
A branch leading from a soil, waste, vent, house drain or
house sewer, which is terminated at a developed distance of two feet
or more by means of a cap, plug or other fittings not used for admitting
water to the pipe.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a house drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage
pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys the same to the
house sewer, beginning five feet outside of the inner face of the
building wall.
A pipe through which foul air is removed from a room or fixture.
That part of such systems which receives the waste vent or
back vents from fixture outlets or traps, directly or through branch
pipes.
The art of installing in buildings the pipes, fixtures and
other apparatus for bringing in the water supply and removing liquid
and water-carried wastes.
Receptacles intended to receive and discharge water, liquid
or water-carried wastes into a drainage system with which they are
connected.
Includes the water supply distributing pipes, the fixtures
and fixture traps, the soil, waste and vent pipes, the house drain
and the stormwater drainage, with their devices, appurtenances and
connections, all within or adjacent to the building.
One from a fixture which is not directly connected to a drain,
soil, vent or waste pipe.
Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closets, with
or without the discharge from other fixtures, to the house drain.
A general term for any vertical line of soil, waste or vent
piping.
Any pipe provided to ventilate the plumbing system and to
prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
A "waste pipe" is any pipe which receives the discharge of
any fixture, except water closets and urinals, and conveys the same
to house drain, soil or waste stacks. When such pipe does not connect
directly with a house drain or soil stack, it is termed a "special
waste."
