No plumbing shall be installed in any structure in the Village unless a permit therefore is first obtained. Applications for such permits shall be made to the Village Clerk and shall state thereon the name of the person or contractor intended to have charge of the installation and the nature and extent of the proposed installation.
In all buildings hereafter erected, both public and private, and in all buildings already built or erected wherein any plumbing is hereafter installed or wherein any sewer or connection pipe shall be hereafter repaired or changed, except for minor repairs, on the sewer side of the trap, the drain, soil, rainwater and other pipe or pipes directly or in-directly connected into any drain, soil or waste pipe, and all traps shall be exposed for view for inspection and test by the Plumbing Inspector, and shall not be covered until such test is made.
The Village of Dwight, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, does hereby adopt and incorporate by reference the 2004 Illinois Plumbing Code, as from time to time amended, promulgated by the Illinois State Department of Public Health, which shall be referred to collectively as the "Plumbing Code," and is hereby adopted as the standard of specification for plumbing except where such provisions are in conflict with any other paragraph under this chapter such other paragraphs shall control. Copies of said code are now and shall hereafter at all times be on file in the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Dwight and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein.
The Plumbing Inspector shall enforce the provisions of the State Plumbing Code within the corporate limits of the Village.
If in accordance with the Illinois Plumbing Code or in the judgment of the Public Works Director or authorized agent, an approved backflow prevention device is necessary for the safety of the public water supply system, the Public Works Director will give notice to the water customer to install such an approved device immediately. The water customer shall, at their own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner in accordance with the State of Illinois Plumbing code and all applicable local regulations, and shall have inspections and tests made of such approved devices upon installation and as required by the State of Illinois Plumbing Code and local regulations.
No person, firm or corporation shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply, other than the regular water supply of the Village of Dwight, may enter the supply or distribution system of said municipality, unless such private, auxiliary or emergency water supply and the method of connection and use of such supply shall have been approved by the Director of Public Works and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
It shall be the duty of the Plumbing Inspector to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply to determine whether actual or potential hazards to the public water supply may exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be made a matter of public record and shall be repeated at least every two years, or as often as the Public Works Director shall deem necessary. Records of such surveys shall be maintained and available for review for a period of at least five years.
Approved cross-connection control device inspector(s) shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply of the Village of Dwight for the purpose of verifying the presence or absence of cross-connections, and that they shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of the Village of Dwight for the purpose of verifying information submitted by the customer regarding the required cross-connection control inspection. On demand the owner, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Director of Public Works or authorized agent, any information which they may request regarding the piping system or systems, or water use on such property. The refusal of such information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of the Public Works Director, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this chapter.
The Director of Public Works of the Village of Dwight is hereby authorized and directed to take such precautionary measures as may be deemed necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains. Where a contamination or imminent threat of contamination is present the Director of Public Works is authorized to immediately disconnect the water supply without notice to any party to prevent actual or anticipated contamination or pollution of the public water supply, provided that in the reasonable opinion of the Director of Public Works or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, such action is required to prevent actual or potential contamination or pollution of the public water supply. Such action shall be followed by written notification of the cause of disconnection. The Director of Public Works is also directed to recommend the disconnection of water service to the Village Board of Trustees of any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this chapter, other than the above, is known to exist. The Village Board of Trustees may then direct that the disconnection be made after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof. Water service to such property shall not be restored until such conditions have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, and until a reconnection fee is paid to the Village of Dwight. Neither the Village of Dwight, the Director of Public Works, nor its agents or assigns shall be liable to any customer for any injury, damages or lost revenues which may result from termination of said customer's water supply in accordance with the terms of this chapter, whether or not said termination was with or without notice.
The consumer responsible for back-siphoned material or contamination through backflow, if contamination of the potable water supply system occurs through an illegal cross-connection or an improperly installed, maintained or repaired device, or a device which has been bypassed, must bear the cost of clean-up of the potable water supply system of the Village.
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Every building shall be separately and independently connected with a public or private sewer when there is such within 300 feet of the lot occupied by such building.
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The entire plumbing and drainage system of every building shall be entirely separate and independent from that of any other building, except where there are two buildings on one lot, one in the rear of the other; then if there is no sewer in the alley to which the rear building can be connected, the sewer in front of the building may be extended to serve the rear building.
All work done on any plumbing system shall follow the rules and regulations of the Illinois Plumbing Code and be performed in an efficient and work-manlike manner.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article, or continuing to work in violation of a stop order issued by the Building Inspector or Plumbing Inspector shall be fined as designated in the fine rate schedule for each offense; and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.