No underground lawn-sprinkling systems shall be installed in
the City of Yonkers without written approval of the Bureau of Plumbing
and the Bureau of Water Works, Department of Public Works, City of
Yonkers. Application shall be made on a form approved by the Director
of the Bureau of Plumbing. Such written approval must be submitted
before application is made for connection to the Yonkers water supply
mains.
A.
Before written approval will be given, four sets of prints showing
the system and its connection to the water meter in the premises shall
be submitted to the Chief Plumbing Inspector. The prints shall show
the hookup from the water meter to the underground sprinkler system
and shall include the location and type of check valves, control valves,
vacuum breaker, pipe material to be used, pitch of sprinkler lines,
number of zones and consumption of water per zone.
B.
When the application, plan and specification have been approved by
the Chief Plumbing Inspector and the Commissioner of Public Works,
the written approval and one set of plans shall be returned to the
applicant.
A.
Defective fixtures. All installed fixtures found defective or in
an unsanitary condition shall be repaired, renovated, replaced or
removed upon written notice from the Bureau.
B.
Defective plumbing. Any part of the plumbing system found defective
or in an unsanitary condition shall be repaired, renovated, replaced
or removed and replaced.
C.
Repairs. None but licensed plumbers will be permitted to alter, repair
or make connections to any part of the plumbing system, building drain
or building sewer of any building.
D.
Pipes for future use. If soil or waste pipes are placed in a building
for future use, the necessary ventilating pipes shall be also put
in and the work tested and inspected as if for immediate use; all
openings not in use shall be closed by plugs, screwed or caulked in.
E.
Removal of nonconforming house sewers or drains. Whenever any house
sewer or drain connected with any public sewer or drain becomes obstructed,
broken or out of order or in such condition as to prevent the use
of the house sewer or drain or unfit for the purpose of drainage or
where any plumbing, drain or sewer that does not conform to the provisions
of this chapter or the New York Uniform Code is uncovered or exposed
for any reason, it shall be removed and replaced with material as
approved by the Bureau. The owner, agent, occupant or person having
charge of any building, yard, lot of land or other premises which
are drained by said drain or house sewer shall, when directed by the
Chief Plumbing Inspector, remove, reconstruct, alter, clean or repair
said drain as the condition of said drain may require.
F.
Construction of minor repairs. "Minor repairs," as used in this subsection,
shall mean repairs to leaks in drains, traps or cocks, opening waste
or supply pipes, traps or drains or repairing broken fixtures of frozen
pipes. "Minor repairs" shall not include the doing of such work where
connections to soil pipes, supply pipes, waste pipes or vent pipes
are disturbed or inside leader pipes are used, nor shall it include
the setting or replacing of fixtures.
G.
Certain sewer connections prohibited. No connection through which
it is designed to discharge offal, garbage, solid refuse or other
matter which might clog or stop the pipes shall be made with the sewer
system of the City or any of its branches, nor shall anyone discharge
such matter into the sewer system.
H.
Improper construction or use. The Bureau has power to stop the construction
or use of drains, sewers and water mains not properly constructed
or used or which are not in accordance with plans already approved.
They may condemn and order the removal of any fixture or any plumbing
and drainage that is defective when found to be dangerous to health.
I.
Improvements ordered. The Bureau shall have the power to order changes
or improvements in the existing plumbing or drainage on any premises
within a specified time when, in its opinion, the requirements of
this chapter or the New York Uniform Code or protection of the public's
health demand such changes or improvements. Such order shall be issued
to the owner, agent and/or lessee in writing, and the order shall
state the time within which the work shall be completed and ready
for inspection.
