For the purposes of this chapter, known as the
"Plumbing Code," the following terms shall have the meanings respectively
ascribed herein:
FOUR-WAY SWING
Any combination of fittings to the top of a buried oil tank
to permit settling of the tank in the subsurface without disturbance
to fuel lines, e.g., two elbow fittings and two forty-five-degree
angle fittings.
[Added 5-6-1975]
HOUSE DRAIN
That part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside
the walls of a building, vault or area and extending to and connecting
with the house sewer.
HOUSE SEWER
That part of the main drain or sewer extending from a point
four 4 feet outside the outer front wall of the building, vault or
area to its connection with a public sewer, private sewer or cesspool
and septic tanks.
LIFT PUMP
A gravity feed fuel intake whereby fuel is led to a suspended
oil burner unit up and over the top of the unit.
[Added 5-6-1975]
PLUMBING
The profession, art or trade of and all work done and all
materials used in and for:
A.
Introducing, maintaining and extending a supply
of water through a pipe or pipes or any appurtenances thereof in a
building, premises or establishment.
B.
Installing, connecting or repairing any system
of drainage whereby foul waste, cooling water, rain or surplus water,
gas, odor, vapor or fluid is discharged or proposed to be discharged
through a pipe or pipes from any building lot, premises or establishment
into any main public or private sewer, drain, pit, box, filter bed,
leaching well, septic tank or other receptacle or into any natural
or artificial body of water or watercourse upon private or public
property.
C.
Ventilating any building sewer or fixture or
appurtenance connected therewith.
D.
Connecting any building, lot, premises or establishment
with any service pipe, building sewer, water pipe main, public or
private sewer or underground structure; performing all classes of
work generally done by plumbers, such as:
(1)
All piping and equipment for gas, water supply,
cast-iron mains, irrigation or sprinkler systems, hydrants, steel
mains and flange pipe on the site, drains, wastes, soil and vent lines,
including all piping for hot and cold water for domestic and culinary
purposes and connections to all fixtures and apparatus requiring same,
all water piping or waste lines of a temporary or permanent use, all
drinking water systems.
(2)
All piping, connections and equipment for heating,
pneumatic, thermostatic, vacuum and cleaning systems, including vacuum
or water. operated ash removal systems.
(3)
All piping, connections and equipment for fire
lines and standpipes of every description, including piping for other
purposes, and standpipes taking place of tanks.
(4)
All piping and equipment for the transmission
of liquid soap systems, glucose, syrup, liquid sugar, ink or other
liquids in manufacturing or commercial plants, acid lines and vents,
subsoil drains, laundry machinery, transmitting gasoline and, where
lead pipe, sheet lead or solder is used, for putting pipes or tubing
together.
(5)
All piping connections and equipment for ice
machine work and all water supply, discharge and drain piping for
refrigerating machinery, ammonia condensers, air compressor jackets,
cooling tanks and all other apparatus requiring such piping and connections,
and all piping for drinking water as well as oxygen, nitrous oxide
piping and hydrogen piping.
(6)
All piping and equipment from drip pans, tanks,
receptacles, apparatus, etc., of every description which conveys any
liquid waste or drip to the plumbing drainage system or fixtures either
by a direct or indirect connection to the plumbing system.
(7)
All welding and burning in connection with plumbing
work and plumbers' piping.
(8)
Connecting all gas ranges, gas logs and gas-fired
boilers and unit heaters, all gas dryers and other gas appliances
for whatever use and fuel-burning appliances.
(9)
Setting and connecting of all water meters,
water filters, hot-water tanks, hot-water heaters and incinerators,
cold-water tanks, suction tanks, pressure tanks, storage tanks, house
tanks, sump tanks, sump pumps and water pumps of every description,
whether steam- or motor-driven, all sewage ejectors and sewage disposal
systems, air compressors and compressed air tanks.
(10)
All piping and equipment used for exhaust fumes.
(11)
All exhaust and vapor piping for sterilizers.
(12)
All piping and equipment of gasoline bulk plants.
(13)
The setting and connection of all fixtures,
as partially enumerated below:
(a)
Plumbing fixtures.
Autopsy tables
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Basins
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Bathtubs
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Bedpan sinks
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Bidets
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Clothes hampers
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Cuspidors
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Dental chairs
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Drinking fountains
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Gas ranges
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Grease and plaster traps
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Laundry tubs
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Sacraria
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Showers
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Sinks and sink cabinets
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Slop sinks
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Swimming pools and pools of any type
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Unit heaters
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Urinals
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Water closets
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(b)
Pumps.
Circulating pumps
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Compressor pumps
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Drinking-water pumps
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Ejectors, electric
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Ejectors, pneumatic
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Fire pumps
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Gasoline pumps
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House pumps
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Sump pumps
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Vacuum cleaning machines
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Vacuum pumps
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(c)
Sterilizers.
Aspirators
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Bandage sterilizers
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Bedpan sterilizers
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Hot and cold water sterilizers
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Instrument sterilizers
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Utensil sterilizers
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Water stills of every description
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(d)
Heaters and water meters, etc.
Gas heaters
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Steam hot-water heaters
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Steam pre-water heaters
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Tank heaters of every description
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Water filters
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Water meters and fish traps and gauges
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(e)
Tanks.
Beer tanks
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Drinking-water tanks
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Expansion tanks
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Gasoline tanks
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Hot water tanks
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House tanks
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Kerosene tanks
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Milk tanks
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Perfume tanks
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Peroxide tanks
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Pneumatic tanks
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Septic tanks
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Soap tanks
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Suction tanks
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Vacuum tanks
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Wax tanks
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(f)
Equipment.
All milk piping
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Bottle-filling machines
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Bottle-washing machines
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Chlorating machines
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Fill boxes
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Fountains
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Hydraulic lifts
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Laundry dryers
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Laundry washers
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Liquidometers
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Milk storage tank machines
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Oil separators
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Pasteurizing machines
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Roof and floor drains of every description
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Washers of every description
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PLUMBING SYSTEM
The hot and cold water supply, distributing pipes, hot-water
storage tanks and connections thereof, the fixtures and fixture traps;
the soil, waste and vent pipes; the house drain and house sewer; the
stormwater drainage with their devices, appurtenances and connections
all within or adjacent to the building.
PRIVATE SEWER
Main sewers that are not constructed by and under the supervision
of the Town.
SOIL LINE
Any vertical line of pipe having outlets above the floor
of a first story for water closet connections.
VENT ALARM
A device by which air pressure in an oil fuel line will produce
a whistle-like sound to indicate completed refueling.
[Added 5-6-1975]
VENT PIPE
Any special pipe provided to ventilate a system of piping
and to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure.
WASTE LINE
Any vertical line of pipe having outlets above the first
floor for fixtures other than water closets.
It shall be the duty of the Chief Building Inspector
and he is hereby given the power and authority to enforce the provisions
of the Plumbing Code.
The Inspector of Plumbing and such assistants
as may be necessary shall be appointed by the Town Board to serve
at its pleasure, and each shall be an assistant to the Chief Building
Inspector.
The Plumbing Inspector shall examine applications
for permits under the Plumbing Code, and if same are found to comply
with the provisions of the Plumbing Code, a permit for the work specified
shall be issued. He shall also examine all plumbing work as the same
is being installed or performed to see that it complies with the provisions
of this Plumbing Code and the conditions of the permit.
Whenever the Plumbing Inspector finds, upon
examination, that a violation of a provision of this Plumbing Code
or any unsafe or unhealthy condition exists, he shall endeavor to
compel an immediate correction of the condition. Failing in this,
he shall make a report of the condition deemed to be unsafe or unhealthy
or in violation of said Code and deliver a copy of such report to
the owner, agent or other person in charge of or in control of the
premises and report such violation to the Chief Building Inspector
who shall enforce the provisions of said Code by appropriate remedies
as provided by law.
In the discharge of his duties, the Plumbing
Inspector shall have authority at any reasonable hour to enter any
premises, building or structure.
The Plumbing Inspector shall keep a record of
applications filed, permits issued, certificates issued and reports,
notices and orders issued. Such records may be maintained in conjunction
with records of the office of the Chief Building Inspector.
The Chief Building Inspector shall make a report
of fees collected as part of his periodic report to the Town Board.
[Amended 4-7-1976 by L.L. No. 15-1976]
A. Form. Applications for permits hereunder shall be
made on forms furnished by the Division of Building in the Department
of Planning and Development.
B. Plans. The Division of Building in the Department
of Planning and Development may require an application for permit
hereunder to be accompanied by plans when such are necessary for an
intelligent understanding of the work for which the permit is required.
No changes shall be made in the specifications
or plans for plumbing or drainage work after a permit therefor has
been issued, unless an amendment showing such changes has been made
to the application for permit and has been approved by the Plumbing
Inspector.
Repairs to existing plumbing and drainage may
be made without filing an application and securing a permit; but such
repairs shall not be construed to include new vertical or horizontal
soil, waste or vent pipes or connecting additional fixtures to existing
soil or waste pipes or main house drains or the replacement of existing
fixtures with others.
[Amended 11-18-1980 by Res. No. 7; 8-13-2002 by L.L. No. 21-2002]
Every permit issued pursuant to this article
shall expire six months from the date of its issuance unless a six-month
extension is granted.
An air test of plumbing in lieu of a water test
shall be accepted only when express permission is obtained from the
Inspector. When such test is permitted, all parts of the plumbing
piping shall be tested to a pressure of five pounds per square inch
and shall be proved tight under such pressure.
Fixture, leader, drain and house traps shall
be filled with water and a thick penetrating smoke, produced by one
or more approved smoke machines, shall be introduced into the entire
system. As the smoke appears at the stack openings on the roof, such
openings shall be tightly closed and a pressure equivalent to a one-inch
water column applied.
It shall be unlawful for an owner to use or
permit the use of any plumbing or drainage until a certificate of
approval has been issued by the Plumbing Inspector.
[Amended 9-13-2006 by L.L. No. 30-2006; 4-27-2022 by L.L. No. 10-2022]
A. Every person who shall violate the provisions of this Plumbing Code or regulations adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal and civil penalties as provided in §§
1-15 through
1-17 of this Code for every such violation.
B. The owner of a building, structure or premises, or part thereof, where anything in violation of this chapter shall be placed or shall exist and any architect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith which shall have caused or permitted or assisted in the commission of any violation of this Code or fails to comply with any provision or requirement of this Code shall each be separately and individually subject to applicable criminal and civil penalties as provided in Subsection
A.
The imposition of the penalties prescribed in §§
1-15 through
1-17 shall not preclude the Chief Building Inspector from instituting any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent an unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance or use, or to restrain, correct or abate a violation or to prevent an illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about any premises.
No oversight or dereliction of duty on the part
of the Chief Building Inspector or the Plumbing Inspector shall legalize
the erecting, construction, alteration, removal of, use or occupancy
of a building or structure that does not conform to the provisions
of this Plumbing Code.