Plumbing standards shall be as follows:
A. 
The Uniform Code, latest revision, is designated as the official Plumbing Code for the Town of Grand Island.
B. 
All sections of the Town Code that relate to plumbing matters as well as all other federal, state or county laws, codes or regulations that may be applicable.
[Added 5-6-2019 by L.L. No. 3-2019]
A. 
Plastic underground sewer piping shall have a continuous eighteen-gauge (or larger) copper tracer wire installed with and attached to the plastic sewer piping material at eight feet zero inches O.C. This wire shall extend from the sewer pipe connection at the property or right-of-way line to the connection at the building drain. This tracer wire shall terminate (in a visible location) 12 inches above ground at the sewer/building drain connection.
B. 
Plastic underground water piping shall have a continuous eighteen-gauge (or larger) copper tracer wire installed with and attached to the plastic water piping material at eight feet zero inches O.C. This wire shall extend from the service connection at the meter box to the curb stop valve that supplies the building served. This tracer wire shall terminate (in a visible location) 12 inches above ground at the water service curb stop valve.
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall commence any plumbing work, regardless of whether a license is required for such work, within the Town of Grand Island, or cause the same to be done, prior to obtaining a separate building permit for each such occurrence.
B. 
The building permit shall be issued to the master plumber, qualified homeowner or other person exempt from license requirements as described elsewhere in this chapter.
C. 
Permit fees shall be as listed on the fee schedule then in effect as adopted by the Town Board.[1]
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Editor's Note: The current Fee Schedule is on file in the Town offices.
D. 
In the event that work requiring a building permit is commenced prior to obtaining said permit, the fees may be doubled, but the payment of such doubled fee shall not relieve any persons from fully complying with the requirements of all applicable building regulations in the execution of the work, nor from any penalties.
E. 
Any provisions of this chapter notwithstanding, no owner or occupant of property with a plumbing system or systems shall be prohibited from making emergency repairs to such system. Such repairs shall not result in alteration of the system, but shall consist only of restoration of the facilities to substantially their condition prior to the emergency. A permit shall be obtained as soon as possible after such repair work has been done, and all such repairs shall be subject to tests and/or inspection.