There is hereby created the office of chief plumbing inspector
and assistant inspectors of the city.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-29)
Plumbing inspectors shall be qualified as provided in V.T.C.A.,
Occupations Code, chapter 1301, and shall hold and keep in force a
plumbing inspector’s license issued by the state board of plumbing
examiners.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-30; Ordinance
adopting Code)
(a)
The
duties of the chief plumbing inspector shall be to receive, approve
and countersign, either in person or by an authorized representative,
all applications and collect all fees for permits to do plumbing,
gas piping, or make sewer connections in the city, or outside the
boundaries of the city if connections are made to either the city
water or sewer systems; also, to personally inspect and pass on all
plumbing work, gas piping and sewer connections now in use or being
constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed in the city, if
connections are made to either the city water or sewer systems; to
issue his certificate of approval thereof if he shall approve the
same, or if he shall not approve the same, to direct by written order
or by other means the owner or agent in charge of any building or
premises where imperfect plumbing or gas piping may be located or
the plumber in charge of such construction to stop the use or construction
of same until it shall have been properly repaired or constructed;
to enter any house or premises in the city, at any time to examine
and inspect any plumbing, gas or sewer connection therein; to investigate
all alleged violations of the plumbing ordinances; to file complaints
against all persons whom he has reason to believe are guilty of violation
of any of the provisions of this article. Assistant plumbing inspectors
shall perform all of the duties and have all of the powers of the
chief plumbing inspector.
(b)
The
plumbing inspector may from time to time, as he deems proper, inspect
the plumbing in any building, and shall make such requirements relating
thereto as may be required for the protection of the public health
and safety. The owner, agent or responsible lessee of such building
shall comply with these requirements.
(c)
The
plumbing inspectors shall have the power, and it shall be their duty,
where any building, premises or construction contains improper or
defective plumbing or gas piping, or where same has been constructed,
erected, altered or repaired without a permit as provided by law and
the ordinances of the city, to immediately notify in writing the utility
company involved or any person, firm or corporation furnishing water
to cut off the water or gas supply thereto until such improper or
defective plumbing or gas piping shall be made to fully comply with
the law and ordinances, and a certificate of approval shall have been
issued by the plumbing inspector. Gas piping, appliances, fixtures
and apparatus or material, which may at any time become defective
and in the opinion of the city plumbing inspector likely to cause
leaks, fires or accidents or to endanger persons or property shall
be condemned by the city plumbing inspector and when, in his opinion,
it is deemed necessary in order to prevent such accident or danger,
said city plumbing inspector is hereby authorized to disconnect such
gas piping, appliances, fixtures and apparatus, or to cause the service
of gas to such consumer to be discontinued until the person or persons
owning or using such gas piping, appliances, fixtures, apparatus or
material shall cause the same to be put in safe condition and tested
and approved by the city plumbing inspector.
(d)
The
chief plumbing inspector is hereby authorized to withhold the issuance
of plumbing permits to any master plumber or any person authorized
to do plumbing under the state law until such time as the plumbing
for which a permit has been issued previously has been completed or
at least prosecuted in an efficient manner in a reasonable length
of time.
(e)
The
chief plumbing inspector and the assistant plumbing inspectors shall
have the right and power to arrest any person or persons who violate
the requirements of this article.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-31)
Collection of fees, provided for herein, shall be paid to the
plumbing inspector or his authorized representative. Any person, collecting
permit fees as provided in this article, shall be bonded in the sum
of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500.00) executed by himself and
secured by a surety company. The fee for such bond shall be paid by
the city.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-32)
No plumbing inspector will be permitted to work for or be connected
or associated with any master plumber, plumbing manufacturer or wholesale
plumbing and supply or to do any plumbing work while employed as a
plumbing inspector by the city.
(1965 Code, sec. 15-33)
