The City of Middletown hereby adopts in its entirety the provisions of the 2015 International Plumbing Code or its latest edition as adopted by the State of New York.
The City hereby acknowledges the copyright of this document by the International Code Council, and further acknowledges the assistance the Code Council provides to various municipal jurisdictions. It is further noted that the Plumbing Standards of the State Building Construction Code (Bulletin No. 23, Minimum Requirements for Plumbing) were adopted for the City of Middletown by the Board of Health and the Board of Examining Plumbers at a joint meeting on 4-11-1962.
Whenever the plumbing within the City limits shall be condemned by the Commissioner of Public Works as being insanitary or constituting a menace to health, the owner or operator of the property shall, when duly notified, proceed forthwith to make such improvements as may be necessary to place the said plumbing and drainage in sanitary condition, in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
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 any person discharge such matters into the sewer system; nor shall any person make or permit discharges into the sewer system which are prohibited by § 389-27 of the City Code.
It shall be unlawful to use or attach any garage, dry-cleaning or other establishment with the public sewers where gasoline, oils or other inflammable materials are used or stored, unless an oil and gasoline and sand interceptor shall be approved in advance by the Commissioner of Public Works or his/her designee. Any use or emplacement of interceptors must comply with the provisions of § 389-31 of the City Code.
No soil pipe other than extra-heavy (X. H.) shall be used on any part of plumbing system.