[Amended 3-18-2003 by Ord. No. 63-2003]
This chapter shall be known as the "New Rochelle
Plumbing and Drainage Code." It shall incorporate the standards that
pertain to plumbing and drainage found in the Plumbing Code of New
York State, which shall be referred to in this chapter as the "State
Code."
The City of New Rochelle and all users of the
city's sanitary sewer system shall be subject to all applicable rules
and regulations contained in the Westchester County Environmental
Facilities Ordinance No. 1, as amended.
The Building Official is hereby designated as
the code enforcement officer, and he shall be responsible for the
enforcement of the New Rochelle Plumbing and Drainage Code. Employees
of the Bureau of Buildings, and such others as the Building Official
may designate, shall perform inspections, issue orders for the correction
of violations and investigate complaints.
[Amended 12-19-1995 by Ord. No. 274-1995]
A. Qualification and examination.
(1) Qualification. It shall be unlawful for any person
to engage in the business of plumbing or to install, alter or repair
any plumbing system in the City of New Rochelle, New York, or to display
a sign or to give other notice setting forth or intending to imply
that he is engaged in the business of plumbing, unless he has obtained
a Westchester County certificate of qualification, after examination,
and has duly registered said certificate with the Plumbing Inspector.
(2) Application and examination. Every person who desires
to engage in the business of plumbing shall make written application
upon a form to be prescribed and furnished by Westchester County and
pay county fees.
(3) Registration. Forthwith, upon the receipt of the county
certificate of qualification, the applicant shall register at the
office of the Plumbing Inspector.
B. Misuse of licenses. The Plumbing Inspector shall investigate
the registration and license of every plumber and shall promptly report
to the Westchester County Examining Board of Plumbers any violation
of the provisions of law relating to the loaning, renting, selling
or transferring of licenses. The Plumbing Inspector shall immediately
apply to the Examining Board of Plumbers of Westchester County for
the forfeiture of the license and certificate of qualification of
any plumber who shall have loaned, rented, sold or transferred such
license or sign in violation of law, and the Plumbing Inspector shall
summon and have prosecuted such offender as provided by law.
C. Additional penalties. Any person who omits or refuses
to comply with or resists or willfully violates any of the rules,
orders or sanitary regulations herein, or who obstructs or hinders
any inspector or officer in the due performance of his duty hereunder,
if a master plumber, shall forfeit any certificate of qualification
or registration which he may hold.
[Amended 12-19-1995 by Ord. No. 274-1995]
No department, officer or employee of the City
of New Rochelle having charge or jurisdiction of the city's water
mains and/or sewers within the limits of the City shall issue a permit
to any person, firm, association or corporation unless such person,
firm, association or corporation is the holder of a certificate of
qualification issued by the Westchester County Examining Board of
Plumbers and is a registered master plumber at the office of the Plumbing
Inspector.
[Amended 12-19-1995 by Ord. No. 274-1995]
It shall be unlawful to do plumbing and drainage
installation except pursuant to approved drawings or approved amendments
thereof as provided herein.
A. Plans. The owner or agent shall file a plan with the
Bureau of Buildings showing the system of plumbing to be installed,
which drawings must be approved by the Plumbing Inspector before work
is begun. No modification of the approved drawings shall be permitted
unless amended or supplemental drawings covering the proposed change
or changes are filed and approved. All such plans shall be submitted
in duplicate, and one copy, stamped with the approval of the Plumbing
Inspector, shall be kept on the premises where the installation is
being carried on.
B. Notification of plumbing. No work shall be started
until the master plumber has filed a notification card, prescribed
and furnished by the Department of Development, with the Plumbing
Inspector. Repairs and replacements of plumbing and drainage may be
made without the filing of drawings in the Bureau of Buildings, but
said exemption from the filing of drawings for repairs and replacements
shall not be construed to include any case where new, or replacements
for, vertical and/or horizontal lines of soil, waste or vent pipes
are proposed. In any event, however, notification cards shall be filed
and permits issued before starting the work. Said repairs and replacements
shall comply in all respects with the weight, quality, materials,
arrangements and venting as provided in this code. The provisions
of this code shall apply to all extensions, alterations and other
work to be done in connection with plumbing or house drains in old
buildings the same as in new buildings, except minor repairs, which
shall be construed as meaning repairs to the existing plumbing system
known to the trade as "jobbing."
C. Installation of oil burners. No plumbing work in connection
with the installation or operation of oil burners or incidental thereto
shall be performed by other than a plumber duly licensed by the County
of Westchester.
D. Exceptions. The provisions of this code shall not
apply to the City (public) systems of sewerage and sewage treatment,
plans of which have been approved by the New York State Department
of Health.
[Amended 12-19-1995 by Ord. No. 274-1995]
The Bureau of Buildings shall make the charges as set forth in Chapter
133, Fees, for the following, after approval of plans by the Plumbing Inspector and filing of notification of plumbing to be installed:
A. There shall be a fee for permit to proceed and inspection
of a certificate of approval for six fixtures or waste-discharging
outlets or fewer, and an additional fee for each additional fixture
or waste-discharging outlet exceeding six.
B. There shall be a fee for the replacement of fixtures
and repairs and sewer cappings and the issuance of a certificate of
approval therefor.
C. There shall be a fee for inspection and testing of
each gas piping system and issuance of a certificate of the same and
on buildings wherein other plumbing is being done and filed for and
where gas piping is being installed.
[Amended 3-18-2003 by Ord. No. 63-2003]
An offense against the provisions of this chapter
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $250 and not more than
$1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both. Each
and every day that a violation continues shall be a separate and additional
violation.