Ordinance 860 - Plumbing, Steam Fitting and Heating Systemss
ORDINANCE NO. 860
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE KALISPELL CITY CODE :RELATING TO PLUMBING,
STEAM FITTING AND HEATING SYSTEMS, TO PROVIDE THAT A CONVICTION FOR
VIOLATION THEREOF MAY BE PUNISHED; TO PROVIDE THAT REVOCATION OR
SUSPENSION OF PLUMBERS LICENSE BY iMONTANA BOARD OF PLUMBING EXAMINERS
IS ALSO A REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION OF SUCH PERSON'S KALISPELL PLUMBING
LICENSE, AND, TO PROVIDE FOR SUSPENSION OF KALISPELL PLUMBING LICENSE'
AFTER A FAIR HEARING; TO PROVIDE FOR THE DUTIES OF THE CITY BUILDING
INSPECTOR IN ENFORCEMENT OF PLUMBING CODES AND PROCEDURE BY WHICH HE
CAN ORDER REPAIRS OR REMOVAL OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS; TO PROVIDE FOR
POSTING PLUMBING OR STEAM FITTING PERMIT UPON PREMISES WHEN WORK IS
PERFORMED; TO PROVIDE FOR TYPE OF PIPE OF WHICH A HOUSE SEWER PLAY BE
CONSTRUCTED; TO PROVIDE FOR POSTING; TO PROVIDE FOR REPEAL OF PROVISIONS
OF THE KALISPELL CITY CODE IN CONFLICT WITH THESE AMENDMENTS; AND TO
PROVIDE FOR EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA,
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 21-1, Kalispell City Code, is hereby amended to
hereafter provide as follows:
A certain document, three copies of which are on file in
the office of the city clerk, designated as "State of Montana,
Plumbing Law Rules and Regulations", published and adopted by
the Montana State Plumbing Board, July, 1974, (see R.C.^M.,
•1947, Section 66-2416) shall be the Plumbing Code for the city,
regulating the practice of plumbing and establishing minimum
standards for plumbing work in the city.
Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of
the.""Montana State Plumbing Code" adopted by this section sh_;11
be punished as provided by Section 1-9, Kalispell City Code.
SECTION 2. Section 21-2, Kalispell City Code, is hereby amendee to
hereafter provide as follows:
(a) All plumbing work done within the city shall conform
to the rules, regulations and requirements described and defined
in the Plumbing Code and this chapter and shall be inspected and
approved in the manner herein set forth.
(b) All work of plumbing and drainage shall be performed
by a journeyman plumber duly licensed hereunder as such, and under
the supervision of an employing or master plumber, duly licensed
and bonded as such as herein provided; provided, however, such
licensure and supervision shall not be required in those instances
set forth in Section 66-2401(2), R.C.M., 1947, as amended. A
change in the plumbing and drainage system shall be governed by
the same rules as any work.
(c) Any person engaged in the business of plumbing in the
city, either as a master or as a journeyman plumber, shall first
secure a license as prescribed by the Revised Code of Montana,
1947, Section 66-2401, and in addition thereto, must first
obtain a license from the city clerk at the following rates:
Master plumbers - $25.00 per year, or any fraction thereof.'
Journeyman plumbers - $5.00 per year, or any fraction thereof.
All such licenses so issued by the city clerk shall expire
on the thirty-first day of December of each year; shall be
renewed annually, at any time prior to expiration upon the
payment of the sum of ten dollars for each master plumber's
license and five dollars for each journeyman plumber's license.
Any such renewal shall also be for the period of one year.
If the license granted and issued to a master or journeyman
plumber by the State of Montana Board of Plumbing Examiners
shall be suspended or revoked by the State Plumbing.Board, such
action shall also constitute a similar suspension or revocation
of the license granted to such person by the Citv of Kalispell.
Also, the City Council may, upon good cause shown and after
affording such licensee a fair hearing, revoke or suspend any
city license granted and issued hereunder. Willful violation of
any provision of the Plumbing Code of the City by any licensee
shall be good cause for such a suspension or revocation.
(d) No person shall engage in the business of plumbing
under a master plumber's license without first furnishing a
public liability bond in the sum of one thousand dollars,
approved as to form and sufficiency by the city council and
conditioned that he will in good faith perform all the things
required of him by this chapter and that if anv injury to any
person or damage to any property results by reason of his
failure or neglect to conform with this chapter he shall save
harmless and indemnify such person injured, or the owner of
such property damaged.
SECTION 3. Section 21-3, Kalispell City Code, is hereby amended to
hereafter provide as follows:
The work of inspecting the installation and repairs of all
plumbing done within the city shall be under the supervision of
the City Building Inspector. He shall enforce and carry into
effect the state law, this chapter and any other ordinances of
the city relating to the installation and maintenance of plumb-
ing and drains connected with the public water and sewer system,
or with private cesspools. He shall, in person or by his
deputies or assistants, have power to examine any building in
which plumbing fixtures are being installed and to condemn and
order removed any plumbing found unsanitary and not in compliance
with the provisions of this chapter and state law. When, upon
examination, any plumbing or connections thereto in any building
or other structure shall be adjudged dangerous to life or health,
or to be a nuisance, by the board of health, having jurisdiction
of health matters within the city, and upon receipt of such
notice, the City Building Inspector shall immediately notify,
in writing, the owner or agent of the owner of such building or
structure, or the occupant thereof, to have same removed or
repaired within ten (10) days thereafter, and if the owner, agent
or occupant neglects or fails so to do, such person shall be
deemed guilty of a violation of this code.
In the enforcement of this chapter and state law the said
City Building Inspector will work in connection with the Board
of Health, City Council and City Engineer.
SECTION 4. Section 21-17, Kalispell City Code, is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following subdivision, other subdivisions of said
section remaining unchanged:
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"(d) Any permit issued hereunder shall be posted in a
prominent place on the premises where the work is to be per-
formed and remain thereon until the work performed is finally
accepted and an occupancy permit issued."
SECTION 5. Section 21-18, Kalispell City Code, is hereby amended
to hereafter provide as follows:
Whenever practicable, every building shall have an indep-
endent connection with a public sewer. Where a building stands
in the rear of another on the same lot, the house drain from
one building may be extended to the other building, and the whole
will be considered as one house drain; provided, however, that
the portion of the house sewer not covered by a building with
a concrete or masonry foundation may be of vitrified pipe but
the diameter of the conduit must not be reduced from the front
building to the public sewer.
The house sewer shall be constructed of cast iron soil
pipe,, salt glazed vitrified clay pipe, transite pipe, or such
pipe as is approved by the "State of Montana Plumbing -Law Rules
and Regulations" and adopted by the Montana State Plumbing
Board; provided, however, that no transite pipe shall be used
or installed within two (2) feet of any building. A permit
shall first be obtained from the plumbing inspector for the
construction of the sewer. The fee for this permit shall be
two dollars and fifty cents. Wherever it is necessary to
excavate in any street or alley, a separate permit for such
purpose must be procured from the proper city officals. Meas-
urements shall be obtained to locate the "Y" junctions in thy- ,
public sewer to which the house sewer shall connect. If suc`_
junction cannot be found within three feet of the location g.
such permit shall permit the holder thereof to tap the sewer
under the direction of.the City Building Inspector.
Wherever it is possible, pipe shall be laid with a grade
of one-fourth inch, or more to the foot. In no case shall a
grade of less than one -eighth inch to the foot be used. The pipe
shall be laid uniformly to line and grade. Change in direction
shall be made with one -eighth bends, except where the pipe can
be laid upon a circle with a radius exceeding fifteen feet, in
which case uniform deflection may be made in each joint. No pipe
shall be laid under any building having a concrete or masonry
foundation, or within two feet of the same, and whenever such
a building is constructed over a vitrified pipe sewer or within
two feet thereof, such sewer shall be removed or relaid with
soil pipe of equal inside diameter.
All pipe in the main house sewer shall have an internal
diameter of not less than four inches. Short branches may have
such diameter of four inches and be connected to the main house
sewer with "Y" junctions. Wherever possible, the house sewer
shall be laid at such depth as to permit the house drain to
enter the building below the level of the basement or cellar flo
When deemed necessary by the Building Inspector, for the purpose
of inspection, no backfilli_ng over the pine shall be done until
permission is ,given by him.
SECTION 6. Secti
hereafter provide
21-22,,Kalispell City Code, is hereby amended to
follows:.
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Any permit issued under the provisions of this article may
be revoked by the proper inspector for failure to comply with
the provisions of this acticle or any other provision of this
Code relating to heating systems, and it shall be unlawful to
continue any work authorized by such permit.
Any permit issued hereunder shall be posted in a prominent
place on the premises where the work, is to be performed and remain
thereon until the work performed is finally accepted and an
occupancy permit issued.
SECTION 7. All other rovisions of the Ka ispell City Code relative
to plumbing, ste itt`ing and heating,syst ms not in conflict here-
with shall remain in full force and effect; those provisions of said
code in con ict herewith are hereby repeal d.
SECTIqNY8. The effective date of�'these ndments is 19th. Augost,1976•
PASSED BY THETY COUNCIL O THE CIT� OF KALISPELL AND APPROVED BY
'THE MAYOR THIS 1h DAY O , 1976.
Norma E. Happ, Mayo'
I, George Beardslee, City Clerk of City'of Kalispell
the 21 St day of July , 19�_y" posted a cop7t:ei
In my office, and the same remained posted f a period ois a true and correct copy of the ordinance a passed by
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he foregoing ordinance
days, and the foregoing