[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Haddon
Heights 10-6-1925 (Ch. 116 of the 1975 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Board of Health of the Borough of Haddon Heights, or its official
representative when the Board is not in session, except where otherwise specified.
Any person or persons, firm, corporation or association of persons.
No person other than a registered master plumber shall be allowed to
carry on or engage in the plumbing or drainage business, nor shall any person
expose the sign of plumbing or house drainage or any advertising pertaining
thereto unless he or they shall have first been registered in the office of
the Board and received a certificate of registration. Nor shall any person
other than a registered master plumber (or a person in his or their employ
or under his or their supervision) be allowed to alter, repair or make any
connection with any house drain, soil, waste or vent pipe or any pipe connected
therewith.
[Amended 6-25-1953; 3-18-1975[1]]
A.
Any person who may desire to be registered as a master
plumber shall first make written application to the Board of Health, upon
a form to be supplied by said Board, to be licensed as hereinafter provided.[2] Said application shall state the full name of the applicant, his
address and the place where his business is or is to be conducted, his citizenship
and the length of time he has served as a journeyman in the plumbing trade
(which must be not less than four years). Upon receipt of said application,
the Plumbing Inspector shall, within 30 days, notify the applicant to appear
before an Examining Board with the necessary tools and materials for the purpose
of determining the qualification of the applicant. Said Examining Board, which
is hereby established, shall consist of three persons, of whom one shall be
the Plumbing Inspector in the employ of the Board of Health, one a master
plumber and one a journeyman plumber. Said application shall be accompanied
by an examination fee of $45, which fee shall be paid to the three examiners.
All plumbers residing or having their main place of business outside of the
limits of the Borough of Haddon Heights shall pay the same fees and be governed
by the same rules as are prescribed for plumbers resident in the Borough of
Haddon Heights.
[2]
Editor's Note: Persons who have obtained licenses under the State
Plumbing License Law of 1968 are not required to obtain a municipal license
or business permit to engage in the business or perform the work of master
plumber in such municipality. See N.J.S.A. 45:14C-14.
B.
If, after examination, an applicant shall be approved
by said Examining Board, a license shall be granted to him by the Board of
Health upon payment of a license fee of $50, which license shall expire December
31 of the year for which it is issued. If an applicant shall fail to pass
the required examination, he may not make a new application until after the
expiration of three months from the date of the previous examination. The
fee for each further examination shall be $45.
C.
It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation
which may now or shall hereafter conduct a plumbing business in the Borough
of Haddon Heights to cause his or its name to be registered with the Board
of Health of said Borough on or before January 1 of each year, with his residence
if an individual or member of a partnership, or registered office and name
of agent-in-charge if a corporation, and the place where said business is
or is to be conducted, whereupon, on the payment of the annual license fee
of $25, the Clerk of the Board of Health shall issue to said registrant a
license entitling the licensee to engage in the plumbing business in the Borough
of Haddon Heights for the balance of the current year. If a master plumber
shall fail to register and renew his license within two years from its expiration,
he will be required to submit to an examination by the Examining Board of
his qualifications for a license and be approved by said Board as a condition
precedent to a renewal of his license, and he will also be required to pay
the prescribed examination fee of $45 in addition to the license fee of $25.
D.
Every master plumber conducting a plumbing business in
the Borough of Haddon Heights, individually or as a member of a partnership
or corporation, shall have a bona fide place of business in said Borough and
shall display in front of his or its place of business a sign "Registered
Plumber," bearing the name or names of the person, firm or corporation in
letters not less than three inches high.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided that all licenses must
be renewed before January 31.
No person registered as a master plumber or master plumbers shall allow
the use of his name by any person or persons, directly or indirectly, for
the purpose of obtaining a permit or permits to do any plumbing or drainage
work.
The certificate of registry granted under these rules and regulations
may be suspended or revoked by the Board when a master plumber, firm or corporation
or the registered representative thereof shall violate any of these rules
and regulations or shall refuse or neglect to make necessary corrections to
work not approved by the Board within a reasonable time after the notification
thereof, or shall permit the use of his, their or its name by a person for
the purpose of obtaining a permit or permits to do plumbing and house drainage
work, and no plumber whose license shall have been suspended shall carry on
the business of plumbing during the period of such suspension.
Every registered master plumber, firm or corporation shall give immediate
notice of any change of address in his, their or its place of business, and
upon retirement from business, shall surrender his, their or its certificate
of registry to the Board.
Every person, firm, corporation or representative thereof, in registering,
shall give the full name or names of the person, firm or officers' names of
the corporation for which he or they shall register.
A.
Before work on any portion of the plumbing or drainage system of any building shall be commenced in such building, there shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board of Health a plan thereof showing the said plumbing and drainage system in its entirety from its connection with the sewer or cesspool throughout the entire building, together with the location of all fixtures, traps, ventilating pipes, etc. Said plan shall have the name and residence of the plumber thereon and the name of the owner or contractor for whom the said work is being constructed. Before any portion of the work is executed, said plan shall be presented to the Plumbing Inspector for his approval, and upon such plan, with the approval of the Plumbing Inspector thereon, being presented and filed with the Secretary of the Board, the latter will, upon the payment of the fee prescribed in Subsection B of this section for each building by the said plumber filing such plan, issue to the latter a permit that such plumbing and drainage system be constructed, and the Secretary shall thereupon immediately notify the Plumbing Inspector that such plan has been filed and permit issued. This rule shall also apply to any extension or alteration of any existing systems; provided that in such case the plan of the old system as well as the plan of the proposed changes must be submitted to the Plumbing Inspector for his approval of such proposed changes, and the like procedure shall be had thereon as in the case of new work. In the case of any plumber leaving any plumbing or drainage system unfinished or another plumber being employed to finish the same, a new permit shall be obtained from the Secretary of the Board as in the case of new work, except that no new plan need be filed unless required by the Plumbing Inspector or unless some change in the system is to be made by such plumber.
B.
Fees.
[Amended 9-20-1966; 3-18-1975; 11-27-1979
by Ord. No. 593]
(1)
New house.
(a)
Five dollars per plumbing fixture, device and plumbing
stack to be installed up to three fixtures; any additional fixture will be
$4 each, provided that the minimum fee shall be $15.
(b)
New bathroom or powder room: $15.
(c)
Alterations or remodeling of bath, powder room or kitchen:
$15.
(d)
New water service, curb to house: $10 plus $2 for plan
filing.
(e)
New drain or sewer line, curb to house: $10 plus $2 for
plan filing.
(f)
Replaced sewer or water lines, curb to house: $8 plus
$2 for plan filing.
(3)
For the purpose of computing the fees in Subsection B(1) and (2) above, fixture or stacks shall include but not be limited to lavatories, kitchen sinks, stop sinks, sinks, urinals, floor drains, sump pumps, drinking fountains, dishwashers, garbage disposals, clothes washers, hot water heaters or similar devices.
C.
Before any additional fixtures are added to an old drainage
system, there shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board of Health a plan
showing the old drainage system with the proposed additional fixtures attached
to same. The plan of old work should be drawn with red ink and the additional
fixtures with blue ink. A fee of $2 for each and every additional fixture
shall accompany said plan.
A.
The Plumbing Inspector shall be notified promptly by
the plumber when the plumbing and drainage work of any building or any portion
thereof is completed and ready for inspection and testing. All inspections
and testing shall be within 48 hours after notification. Any such system put
in and covered without due notice to the Plumbing Inspector must be uncovered
for examination at the direction of said officer. Upon the final inspection
and approval of any plumbing or drainage system by the Plumbing Inspector,
he shall issue to the plumber a certificate of such inspection and approval.
Whenever a test shall be necessary subsequent to a second test, the plumber
who prepared said work shall be liable to and pay to the Board as a penalty
therefor as follows:
B.
Applications for final inspection must be made within
10 days after the finishing of all plumbing work.
C.
Every new plumbing system must be tested by the plumber
by the air test in the presence of a proper officer of the Board of Health;
all defective joints must be made tight and other openings made impervious
to gases. Defective pipe must be removed and replaced by sound pipe.
D.
All work under floors must be tested under pressure as
main drain, that is, five pounds to the square inch, and floors not put down
until the work is seen by the Inspector.
E.
For each reinspection of plumbing work caused by the
failure of the licensee to comply with the provisions of the Code or permit
issued, a fee of $10 shall be paid to the Inspector before such reinspection.
[Added 3-18-1975]
A.
Before laying the drain from the building to the sewer
and after the trench is graded, the bottom of the trench must be carefully
rammed to avoid unequal settling of the drain. After the pipe is laid, as
the trench is filled, the earth must be packed tight.
B.
When the ground is made or filled in, the drain, extending
from the sewer to the foundation wall, must be of medium cast-iron pipe, of
such diameter as may be approved. Such pipes shall be laid with the joints
properly caulked with lead.
C.
Where the soil consists of a natural bed of loam, sand
or rock, the drain, from sewer to curb, may be of hard, glazed and earthenware
pipe laid on a smooth bottom free from all projections of rock. The space
between each hub and the small end of the next section must have one strand
of oakum therein and be completely and uniformly filled with the best cement.
Care must be taken to prevent any cement or oakum being forced into the drain
to become an obstruction, and each joint must be scraped inside. No retempered
cement shall be used.
D.
Where a building is to be connected with a sewer, it
must be connected by a drain not less than four inches in diameter, having
a fall of not less than 1/4 of an inch to the foot. Old drains can be used
for new houses only when found by the Plumbing Inspector to conform in all
respects to the foregoing regulations governing new drains.
E.
All horizontal drains within and to a distance of five
feet beyond the walls of buildings shall be of cast iron with caulked leaden
joints and shall be so located as to be readily accessible for inspection;
the house drain within the building shall be securely supported upon eight-inch
brick piers located not more than nine feet distant from each other, or approved
wrought-iron hangers securely fastened to cellar joists; the house drain shall
have a fall of at least 1/4 of an inch to the foot, and more if possible;
where a pipe passes under the wall of a building, there shall be a relieving
arch to prevent the pipe being broken by settling of the foundation. Said
drain shall be provided with a fitting for proving purposes, known as a "Testing
T," the same to be closed with a trap screw plug caulked with lead and sealed.
F.
No cold air box for a furnace shall be so placed that
it can by any possibility draw air from the inlet pipe.
G.
The main drain of every building shall be separately
and independently connected with the street sewer where one is provided, and
where there is no sewer in the street and it is necessary to construct a private
sewer to connect with one in an adjacent street, such plans may be used as
may be approved by the Board of Health; but in no case shall a joint drain
be laid in cellars parallel with a street or alley; all house drains laid
beneath the ground inside of buildings or beneath cellar floors shall be of
medium heavy cast-iron pipe with well-leaded and caulked joints.
H.
In districts where there are no sewers and the waste
from buildings runs to a well, the well must be at least five feet in diameter
and 15 feet deep, unless water is reached before that depth. The well must
be suitably vented with four-inch pipe with cowl vent top. Before any plumber
connects a drain to said well, he first must obtain a permit from the Board
of Health, same to cost $1, and the Plumbing Inspector must first inspect
and approve said well before any connection is made to same, and it will be
unlawful to run any water from rain conductors into the said well. Well must
be at least 30 feet from any foundation wall.
I.
With regard to sewer drains, it is hereby approved that,
in addition to soil pipe with lead connections, M-type copper pipe may be
used.
[Added 3-18-1975]
A.
All cast- or wrought-iron pipes must be sound, free from
holes and shall have a uniform thickness of 3/16 of an inch, called "medium,"
of the following weights, which weights shall be marked on pipes:
|
Size of Pipe
(inches)
|
Weight
(pounds per foot)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
2
|
4
| |
|
4
|
9
| |
|
5
|
12
| |
|
6
|
15
| |
|
8
|
25
| |
|
10
|
35
|
B.
No waste pipes shall be less than 1 1/4 inches in
diameter, inside measurement. Sink wastes shall be not less than two inches
cast iron, except when the waste from sink is very short, when lead pipe 1 1/4
inches in inside diameter and weighing 2 1/2 pounds per foot may be used.
When lead traps for any fixtures are used, they must be extra heavy. All lead
bends must be extra heavy.
C.
All drain, soil, waste and vent pipes shall be as direct
and concentrated as possible, protected from frost and readily accessible
for inspection and convenience in repairing.
D.
Vertical soil pipes.
(1)
Every vertical soil and main pipe must be of cast iron,
and when it receives the discharge of fixtures on one or more floors, it must
extend at least two feet above the roof, except in the case of flat roof tenement
houses, in which case it shall extend at least six feet above the roof, and
said pipe shall have a diameter above the roof the same as the diameter of
the pipe proper; when vent on roof is within 10 feet of a window, it must
extend above said window. The use of galvanized wrought-iron pipe and drainage
fittings will be permitted for ventilating purposes only.
(2)
No cup or cowl shall be affixed to the top of such ventilation
pipe, but in tenement houses a strong wire basket shall be provided and securely
fastened thereto. Each length shall be securely fastened, and in the case
of each line of soil pipe it shall rest its foot on a pier or foundation to
prevent settling. All joints in cast-iron drain, soil or waste pipes must
be so filled with oakum and lead and hand-caulked as to make them gastight,
and the amount of lead used shall not be less than eight ounces to each inch
of diameter of the pipe so connected.
E.
When iron drains or waste pipes are to be cut for a connection,
they must be of a Y-branch inserted or a Y-saddle, and when such connections
are made they must be inspected by the Plumbing Inspector.
F.
There shall be no traps placed on vertical soil and waste
pipes, iceboxes, bar fixtures, soda water fountains or any receptacle where
food is stored. No connections of special appliances or fixtures not mentioned
in this code shall be made directly to the water or drainage system of any
building by means of flexible connections. The same rules governing the drainage
connection of refrigerators apply to these special fixtures. The water connections
shall be approved by the Plumbing Inspector to ensure against back siphonage.
[Amended 3-18-1975]
G.
All changes in direction in cast-iron pipes shall be
made with sweep bends and all connections with Y-branches and one-sixteenth
or one-eighth bends.
H.
The least diameter of soil pipes permitted is four inches.
A vertical waste pipe into which a line of kitchen sinks discharges must be
at least three inches in diameter if receiving the waste of five or more sinks
and shall have two-inch branches.
I.
Where lead pipe is used to connect fixtures with vertical
soil or waste pipes or to connect traps with vertical vent pipes, it must
not be lighter than D pipe.
J.
All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made
with brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the
hub of the branch of the iron pipe and caulked with lead. The lead pipe must
be attached to the ferrule by a wiped solder joint. All connections of lead
waste and vent pipes shall be made by means of solder joints.
[Added 3-18-1975]
The term "water piping" shall be included in the Plumbing Code and become
a part of the same, and no water piping shall be installed, changed or tapped
without the proper registration certificate or permit; provided nothing in
this chapter shall apply to the installation of water heaters by any public
utility as defined in an act entitled "An Act Concerning Public Utilities;
to Create a Board of Public Utility Commissioners and to Prescribe Its Duties
and Powers"; approved April 21, 1911, as amended and supplemented, nor to
any employee of such public utility.
A.
Every water closet, urinal, sink, basin, washtray, bath
and every tub and set of tubs and hydrant waste pipe must be separately and
effectively trapped. Urinal platforms, if connected to drainpipes, must also
be properly trapped and a supply of water so arranged as to always maintain
the seal of said traps; in no case shall this waste from a bathtub or other
fixture be connected with a water closet trap. All bathtub traps shall be
of the pattern known as "large Philadelphia regulation brass trap," or other
watersealed brass trap of equal size.
B.
Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as practicable,
and in no case shall a trap be more than two feet from the fixture.
C.
Vent pipes must extend two feet above the roof or coping,
the extension to be not less than four inches in diameter, to avoid obstruction
from frost, except in cases where the use of smaller pipe is permitted by
the Board of Health. These vent pipes must always have a continuous slope
to avoid collecting water by condensation.
D.
No trap vent shall be used as a waste or soil pipe.
E.
Overflow pipes from fixtures must in each case be connected
on the inlet side of the trap of the same fixtures.
[Added 3-18-1975]
No toilet or pedestal urinal shall be over eight feet from the joint
of connection to the main drain or vent line, and no sink, lavatory, tubs
and other small fixtures shall be over 12 feet from the joint of connection
to the main drain or vent line.
The safe under any fixture shall be provided with a drip, waste or notice
pipe to extend to the bottom of the first floor joist in the cellar. The waste
pipe from refrigerators shall in no case be directly connected with any soil
or waste pipe nor with any drain or sewer, nor shall any butcher refrigerator
discharge upon the ground.
A.
Water closets must never be placed in an unventilated
room or compartment. In every case the compartment must be open to the outer
air or be ventilated by means of a shaft or air duct.
B.
All water closets within the house must be supplied with
water from separate tanks or cisterns, the water of which is used for no other
purpose. Pan closets and hollow plunger and Philadelphia pattern closets are
prohibited.
C.
Water closets, when placed in the yard, must be of the
type known as "antifreezing closet outfit" and so arranged as to be conveniently
and adequately flushed.
D.
All waste, overflow or vent pipes shall be of lead or
cast iron, except vent pipes, which may be of galvanized wrought-iron pipe.
E.
All washout or improved water closets within dwellings
and buildings must be connected to lead bends with brass floor plates, soldered
and screwed to the floor.
F.
No hopper closet pits shall be placed within five feet
of cellar walls, and the soil pipe within well must be iron, and waste from
hopper valves must be tapped and screwed into soil pipe and ferrule soldered
to waste pipe, and hopper connected by a four-inch lead ferrule tafted over
on floor or iron floor plate caulked to iron riser.
G.
In all factories or buildings used as factories where
water closets or urinals are used, the compartment in which they are located
must be partitioned off from the room where the employees work and continued
to ceiling or ceiled over, and the water closet and urinal apartments must
include a window or a shaft to the outer air having an area of not less than
three square feet.
H.
All nickel-plated traps, flush, waste and overflow pipes
must be of not less than 17 gauge.
I.
All main sewer connections in street shall be inspected
before covered over.
A.
Rainwater leaders, when placed inside of any building,
must be of cast iron with leaded joints, wrought iron with screwed joints
or of copper with soldered joints. The joints between a cast-iron leader and
the roof must be made gastight and watertight by means of a brass ferrule
with lead or copper pipe properly connected.
B.
Rainwater leaders must never be used as soil, waste or
vent pipes, nor shall any soil, waste or vent pipe be used as a leader. No
rainwater leader shall be connected to the sanitary sewer or house drain.
All plumbing questions not covered by these rules shall be left to the
Plumbing Inspector, who shall report the same to the Board for its action.
It shall be lawful for any of the members of the Board of Health and
any person acting under and by authority of the Board of Health, on showing
such authority, to enter into or upon any land, tenement, building or other
premises for any of the purposes specified in this code, and no person shall
prevent, obstruct or resist any member of the Board of Health or any person
acting under and by authority of said Board in entering into or upon any land,
tenements, buildings or other premises for any of the purposes specified by
this code.
In case any person shall refuse or fail to comply with orders of this
Board within the time therein specified, the Board may cause the said work
to be done at the expense of the owner of said premises, and the account of
the costs and expense thereof shall be made out and placed in the hands of
the Solicitor for collection according to law.
A.
Any person or persons or corporations offending against
or violating any of the provisions of these rules, on conviction thereof,
shall pay a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $500 for each offense
and, in addition, shall, for a second or subsequent offense, be liable to
a revocation of license.
[Amended 3-18-1975[1]]
B.
Any person or persons found guilty of loaning licenses
or passing under false name shall lose the right to practice plumbing in the
Borough of Haddon Heights.
