Ordinance 566 - House Sewers584
ORDINANCE NO 566
An Ordinancd amending Section 688, Article XLIV, of Revised
Ordinance of the City of Kalispell, Montana, 1947, relating to
House Sewers.
Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Kalispell, Montana;
Section 1. That Section 688,
Ordinance of the City of Kalispell,
hereby amended to re<d as follows:
Article XLIV of the revised
Montana be and the spme is
Section 688. House Sewer. Whenever practicable, every
building shall have an independent connection with a public sewer.
Where a building stands in the rear of another on the same lot
or lots, the house drain from one building may be e-*ended 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 £oundption ma:-
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 construced of cast iron soil pipe,
salt glazed vitrified clay pipe, Johns Mansville Transite pipe or
any bituminized pipe. Provided, how-ver, that no transitre or bituminized
pipe shall be sued or installed within rhree 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 ($2.50). Wherever it is necessary
to excavate in any street or alley, a separate permit for this
purpose must be procured from the proper officials. Measurements
shall be obtained to locate the "Y" junctions in the public sewer
to which the ho se sewer shall connect. If such junction cannot
be found within three feet of the location given, a permit shall
be -ranted to tap the sewer under the direction of the plumbing '
inspector.
Wherever it is pdssible, 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 -eight 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 15 feet, in which case uni-
form deflection may be made in each joint. No pipe shall be laid
under any building have a concrete or masonry foundation, or within
three feet of the same, and wherever such a building is cdnstruced
over a vitrified pipe sewer or with in three feet thereof, such sewer
shall be removed or relaid with soil pipe of equal inside diameter.
All pipe in the main ho se sei%re^ 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 sew r shall be laid rt
suchdepth as to permit the house drain to e ter the building below
the level of the basement or cellar floor. When deemed necessary
by the Inspector, for the purpose of inspection, no backfilling
over the pipe shall be done until permission is given by him.
Passed and Approved this 6th day of June, 1949.
ATTEST r ,gr
City Cler
F. H. Keller
Mayor
I, C. H. Brewer City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, Montana,
do hereby certify that on the 6th day of June, 1949, I posted
copy of the foregoing ordinance in my office and the same
remained posted for a period of five days and the foregoing
is a -true copy-of:the-ordinance as passed by the City Council.
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