Ordinance 385 - Plumbing195
An Ordinance revising and amending article two of the
revised ordinances of the City of Kalispell, Montana, for the
year of 1922.
WEEMS, it is necessary that the plumbing ordinances of the City
' of Kalispell, should be revised, amended and arranged in appropriate
sections that all ommissions should be supplied and there defects
corrected, that the whole should be rendered plain, concise and intel-
ligible, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF KALISPELL: that article two of the revised ordinances
of the City of Kalispell, for the year 1922, be amended to
read as follows:
ORDINANCE NUMBER 185
An ordinance To Establish a system of examination for Master
and Journeyman Plumbers, fixing the fees to be charged for
licenses and permits, and the disposal of the funds thus created,
and regulating the plumbing and drain laying in the city of
Kalispell,
codifying
all
of
the ordinances on
the 8bove
subject,
providing
a penalty
for
the
violation of the
provisions
of this
ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL:
Section 1. Any person working at the business of Plumbing
in the City of Kalispell, either as a master plumber or as a
journeyman plumber, shall first secure a license as hereinafter
provided.
Nection 2. Any person desiring to work at the business of
plumbing in the City of Kalispell shall file his application for
a license with the Secretary of the Board of Examiners and shall
at such time and place as may be designated by the Board of
Examiners of Plumbers be examined as to his qualifications for work-
ing in such business in the City of Kalispell.
Section 3. within thirty days after the passage and publication
of this ordinance the Mayor shall appoint a Board of Plumbing
Examiners consisting of three members --one journeyman plumber, one
master plumber, and the Health Officer, Two of the members of
said Board shall be practically plumbers, well versed in modern
sanitary plumbing, sanitation, and sewerage, and the members
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of said Board shall serve for a period of three years from the date
of their appointment; provided, however, the first Board shall
serve as follows: one member for one year, one member for two
years, and one member for three years, and the Mayor in making
the appointment shall designate the time that each member constituting
the first Board shall serve. Thereafter upon the expiration
of the term of office of each member of *he Board, or when a vacancy
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occurs, the Mayor shall make a new appointment for the unexpi=ed
term or for a period of three years. The Plumbing Inspector
shall, ex-officio, be a member of such Board of Examiners. The
members of said Board shall be entitled to a compensation of five
dollars per diem, each, for each and every day while actually
engaged in the work of the Board. The compensation, however
to be paid from the revenue realized under the provisions of this
ordinance, but not otherwise, Any applicant for a license to work
at the business of plumbing in the City of Kalispell shall be
examined as to his qualifications by the Board of Examiners of
Plumbers. It shall be the duty of said. Board to examine each
applicant for a license as provided for in this ordinance, two
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to determine his qualifications and fitness for carrying on the
business of a master plumber.or journeyman plumber, and if the
applicant successfully passes the examination as prescribed by the
said Board, then a license shall be issued to such applicant, for
such business, authorizing him to engage in the business and
occupation of a master plumber, or a journeyman plumber as the
case may be, which license, when issued, shall authorize the holder
thereof to carry on the business of a master plumber or a journeyman
plumber in the City of Kalispell.
Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to en-
gage in or work in the business of plumbing, either as a master
plumber, or as a journeyman plumber in the City of Kalispell shall
apply to the Secretary of said Board of Plumbing Examiners by filing
a written application with the Secretary of the Board,'stating his
place of residence, age, experience, and the place where he has
acquired his experience, and shall at such time and place as may be
designated by the said Board, as herein provided for, be examined
as to his qualifications for said license. In the case of a.firm
or corporation the examination and issuing of a license of any one
member of the firm or to the manager of the corporation shall satisfy
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member of the firm or to the manager of the corporation shall satisfy
the requirements of this ordinance as to a master plumber, but not
as to journeyman plumbers; provided, however, that no person shall
do the work of a master plumber unless licensed, as provided for in
this ordinance.
' Section 5. No Applicant for a master plumber's license shall
be entitled to submit to the examinationsprescribed by the said
Board of Plumbing Examiners until he shall have deposited with the
Secretary of said Board the sum of ten dollars as an examination
fee, and no applicant for a journeyman plumber's license shall be
entitled to submit to the examination prescribed by the said Board
of Plumbing Examiners, until he shall have deposited with the
Secretary of said Board the sum of two dollars as an examination
fee, such examination fee to be returned to the applicant in case
he fails to pass the examination and is refused a license; each
license when issued shall expire on Dec. 31st of the year of its
issuance and shall have no force or effect after that date. And
license, however, issued to a master plumber or a journeyman plumber
' shall be renewed annually, without examination, at any time prior
to its expiration by a written request for its renewal directed•,
to the Secretary of the said Board of Plumbing Examiners and the
payment of $2.50 for a renewal of a master plumber's license and the
some of $1.00 for a journeyman plumber's license, and any such renewal
shall also be for the period of one year.
Section 6. Nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit any person
from working as an apprentice in said trade of plumbing with a
plumber duly licensed by said Board, as herein provided for, and
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time
to time by said Board of Plumbing Examiners; provided the name and
residence of each apprentice and the names and residences of their
' employers shall be duly filed with said board, and record in a suit-
able book, to be provided by said Board, shall be kept by said Board,
showing the names and residences of such apprentices.
Section 7. All moneys paid for license fees as provided for in this
ordinance shall be placed in the custody of the City Treasurer,who
shall keep such funds in a distinct fund, and any moneys in such fund
shall be applied in defraying any expanses incurred by the Board of
Examiners of plumbers in carrying out the provisions of this
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ordinance.
Section 8, The license and permit granted.as herein provided
may be at anytime be revoked for incompetency, dereliction or duty
or other sufficient cause after a full and fair hearing by said board,
Section 9. A majority of said Board of Plumbing Examiners
shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting any and
all business that may come before the board.
Section 10. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in or
carry on the business of plumbing, house drainage, building cess-
pools or connecting house drainage with the city sewerage or cesspools
heating, ventilating, the construction or modification of sewers or
appurtenances to sewer connections, or fix or place either without
or within any building any water supply pipes or any connections
thereto whatsoever from any water main laid in the City of Kalispell,
nor any owner shall do any such work until he -or they shall first
obtain a permit for each building having a sewer connection from
the City Engineer or Plumbing Inspector and file a bond as herein
provided.
Section 11. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of plumbing, heating, ventilation, drain laying or running
water supply for household purposes under this ordinance nor any
owner in fee of property where such work is to be done shall be
entitled to a permit upon compliance with all the requirements
of this ordinance, but before doing any work in any building
or laying any drains or making any connections with any pipes,
excepting necessary repairs (and repairs are hereby defined as consist-
ing of leaks in coil, drain, waste, vent or other pipes and repairs
or valves and faucets), shall file with the City Engineer or his
duly authorized assistant or plumbing Inspector, a full description
of said work in writing upon the proper blank furnished for that pur-
pose, together with suitable drawings and a general statement and des-
Oription of the kind and character of work to be done, the material
to be used and how the work will be performed, and shall :rile an .
application for a permit of such work.
If such descriptions, drawings and statements are found to conform
to all the provisions of this ordinance the same shall be approved
and permit issued therefor within 24 horking hours after filing
such application., and it shall be unlawful to execute any part of
such work until a permit has been obtained authorizing the same to be
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done. Before such permit is issued the applicant shall pay the City
Engineer the sum of $1.00. All moneys received from this source
shall be paid by the City Engineer to the City Treasurer on the
first day of each month.
Section 12. No permit shall be granted to any person, firm or
corporation, or to any owner in fee of the property where such
work shall be down until a bond shall have been filed with the
City Clerk as follows: to -wit:
(aj- Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
of plumbing, heating ventilation, drain laying, sewer construction,
or the running of water pipes for household water supply either
from street mains or any other connection must file with the City
Clerk a bond in the sum of 1500.00 conditioned for the protection
of the City of Kalispell against all loss or damage which may occur on
account of such permit, or the work to be done thereunder through any
carelessness or negligence of such person, firm or corporation,
or his or their employes; said bond to be of form approved by the
City Attorney and signed by two or more good and sufficient sureties
' to be approved by the City Attorney; upon the filing and approval
of said bond the said person, firm or corporation shall be entitled
to any and all permits applied for during said year ending Dec.
$lot of each year, without any further bond, and additional bond to
be filed each year thereafter.
(b) Any master plumber or journeyman plumber, having obtained
a license from the board of examiners provided for in this ordinance
and who is not under bond as provided in Section (a) or any owner shall
before obtaining any permit file with the City Clerk a bond in the sum
of not less than $250 nor more than $1000, conditioned for the pro-
tection of the City of Kalispell against all loss or damage which may
occur on account of such permit or the work done thereunder through
any carelessness or negligence of such person, firm or corporation, or
' his or their employes; said bond to be of form approved by the City
Attorney and signed by two or more good and sufficient sureties to be
approved by the City Attorney.
Section 13. Every person, firm or corporation, or owner doing
any work under this ordinance shall, after obtaining a permit, register
his or,, -their name, place of business, or not having a place of business
then his ortheir residence, and number of each permit at the office
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of the Plumbing Inspector to be posted in that office, and shall promptly
notify said office of any changes or removal vehieh may at any time take
place in their business or in their place of residence.
Section 14. All connections of private drains or sewers with
the public sewers of the City of lialispell, or the construction or
modification or appur-tenances to sewers or sewer connections, shall
be in accordancewiththe regulations embodied in this ordinance,
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and such further regulations as the Uity Council may from time to time
adopt.
`Section 15. No person, firm or corporation shall excavate any
trenches for sewer pipes or open, uncover or in any manner make connect-
ions with or lay any sewer or drain or attach or modify any appurtenance
to sewer connections with sewers within the public streets, alleys
or other grounds of the City of Kalispell, or with any private sewer
or drain without having first obtained a permit therefore as required
above, and such permit shall be on the ground at all times during
the progress of the work and must be shown to any officer in
authority upon demand.
Excepting only persons operating under special contracts with
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the City of Kalispell for such work.
Section 16. All applications for permits must be made in writing
upon the proper blanks for that purpose and signed by the owner or
his authorized agent, and must be accompanied by a plan showing the
whole course of the drain which it is desired to construct, together
with the size of the same, the location of any and all branches
andthe number and kindof fixtures to be connected thereto as near
as can be determined at the time, a copy thereof to be left with the
application in the office of the Plumbing Inspectors. jf the drain is
to be connected with a sewer built by private parties the applicant
must present the written consent of the owner to connect thex$with.
The plumber or drain layer shall keep a record covering the full
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details of such work, and shall file a retunr of the same with the
Plumbing Inspectors on the first of each month for all work completed
during the previous month, or in case of owner when work is completed.
Section 17. All connections of private drains or sewers with the
public sewers of the City of Kalispe`11, or the construction or mod-
ification of any and all sewers, shall be done under and in compliance
with the direction of the Plumbing Inspectors'.
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Section 18. The Mayor, by and with the consent of the City
Council, may, when necessary, appoint one or more inspectors whose
duties shall be such as are prescribed by this ordinance, and who
shall properly supervise and enforce the provisions of this ordinance,
under the direction and control of the City Engineer.
Section 19. Trenches in public streets or alleys shall be exca-
vated so -as to impede public travel as little as possible. The City
Engineer, or his duly authorized assistant shall have the power
to determine or limit such street or alley may be kept open, and
when unnecessarily delayed, he may direct that. the number of workmen
be increased to hasten the work to such an emt4Bnt as he may deem
necessary for public interests. Trenches six feet or more in de.pth
and in "filled in" or otherwise treacherous soil, or near large
brick buildings, shall be properly braced, to prevent any caving in which
might occur.
The crossing of gutters and all other ways shall be left in such
shape as to admit of ready excape of water during storms.
Planks -shall always be provided when sidewalks or crossings are
' opened so as to facilitate easy safe crossing over trenches.
Red lights shall be kept around all unfinished work at night from
dark until sunrise, and sufficient barricade shall be placed around
excavations at all times.
The refilling of all trenches shall be well and thoroughly done
in uniform layers, not exceeding nine inches, and tamped with a
tamper of not less than forty pounds weight, or with puddled earth
as may be directed by the City Engineer,:his assistant in trust with
the supervision of such work, so as to replace all excavated material
and leave the --surface in as good condition as found before the
commencement of the work. This section shall apply to the excavation of
all trenches within the limits of the City of Kalispell for any purpose
whatsoever, and no excavation shall be made or begun without first
' obtaining a permit therefor from the City Engineer or his assistants as
herein provided .
Section 20. Connections with sewers of the separate systems shall
be of good, hard, sound cement pipe or salt glazed, vitrified sewer
pipe six inches in diamettr without reducers, laid to a uniform grade,
not less than one quarter of an inch to the foot and as much more
as possible. Joints made with neat cement in a good and workmanlike
manner, Pipes to be put together with the greatest care; the
interior of each length of pipe and the last,jeint insido are to be
made perfectly clear before the next length,is laid.
The back Billing to be first packed with care and then well rammed
to,prevent the slightest settling of the drain. Connections for stable
waste must be of syphon form 9pproved by the City Engineer.
- No junction pipe shall be out or taken up for connection without
a special permit, and then only in the presence of an inspector.
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All applications to connect with the sewerage system of the
City of Kalispell, must be accompanied by the treasurers receipt for
$1.00 for each connection.
Section 21. Connections. How ordered, Failure to Connect when
Ordered. The City council shall power to order the owners or agents"
of owners of houses upon any street or part of street to make connection
with the sewer, and when so ordered, the chief of police shall cause
notices to be delivered to such houses, or,to the owners or agents
thereof, which notice shall contain a.copy of this section.
If the owner or owners, agent or agents of any suchhouse shall fail
to make such connection within ten days after the delivery of such notice,
such owner or owners shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance.
Changes of direction of pipes must be made by properly curved pipe
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and not by edging or cutting.
All connections must be made by "Y"s and not Tts.
ho traps shall be allowed between the main sewer and outer area
walls of buildings connected therewith except the necessary grease
traps in 1y.4LrdM as hereinafter provided.
Section 22. Drain layer's, plumbers, or owners will be required
to keep on hand a spirit level in proper order when work is being
done in connection with public sewers, and their returns must show
the acutal depth below the surface and the fall per foot to which
their pipes have been laid.
Section 23. No storm water connectionsfrom roofs or yards, or
overflow pipes from cisterns will be permitted with the separate
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system of sewers except by special permission; and then} special prov-
ision must be made to secure against the entrance of objectionable
material. Entrance into manholes or opening the same except by the
City Engineer,his assistant, the Inspector, or other person duly
authorized is strictly prohibited.
No one shall throw or deposit or cause or permit to be.thrown or
deposited in any vessel or receptacle connected with the public sewers
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deposited in any vessel garbage, hair, ashes, fruit, or vegetable
peelings, refuse, rags, sticks, cinders, or any other matter or
thing whatever except human excrement, urine, .and necessary closet
paper, liquid house slops and elevator water.
Section 24. The Plumbing Inspector or his assistant shall have
' access at all times to any building or premises connected with any
sewer or where work is being done under this ordinance to properly
examine the same.
Any defective or improper work in connection with sewers or their
appurtenances, disapproved by the Plumbing Inspector or his assistant,
shall upon written notice stating wherein same is defective or improper
be promptly remedied by the person, firm or corporation doing the work.
Agoidents to sewers by caving in or cleaning:private connections
must be promptly reported at the City Engineer's office.
Section 25. Any person, firm or corporation who shall be found
guilty of violating any of the foregoing provisions for the regulation
of drain layers, or who shall fail or neglect to comply with any
of such provisions, on conviction thereof shall be fined not less
' than five dollars not more than fifty dollars from each day such person
shall continue in violation thereof.
Willful violation of said regulations or of the directions of the
Plumbing Inspector his assistant or the Inspector or other person
acting under his authority shall be cause for suspension of the permit
or license of the offender by the City Council, in addition to any
other penalties that may be imposed under the ordinance, and such
suspension shall operate until such penalties are paid ar until
restored by the City Council, nor shall any such suspension give the
offending part a right to the return of any monies paid for such
lic#ase or permit.
Section 26. Every dwelling house, hotel, apartment housC, tenem-
ent, factory, store, or other building in which plumbing arrange-
ments are to be placed shall be connected with the city sewer, where
such sewer is provided, and when such sewer is not provided, with a
cesspool, in a location to be approved by the Inspector of Plumbing.
The plumbing and ventailation in every building shall be separate
and independent; from the roof to the outside of the foundation
walls, and from the purpose of plumbing each and every enterance from
the street through the wall of said building to a row of tenements
shall be construed to mean one building,every flat, apartment house,
store, hotel, factory, church, hall, opera house,and stable shall be
construed as one building,,. Provided, that when a fire wall in any
building divides said building then each part so divided, although
there be but one entrance, shall be separately and independently
plumbed; and provided further, that private stables may be connected '
with the house drain. Each hotel or lodging house shall be provided
with a water eleset on each floor thereof where rooms are used for
sleeping purposes, and when there are more than 12 rooms on a floor
uaed for sleeping purposes an additional water closet shall be
provided for each additional 12 rooms or fraction thereof.
Section 27, Where sewerage is discharged into a cesspool
the same shall be not less than ten feet removed from the house,
and shall be not less than six feet in diameter in the clear, and
not less than ten feet deep, and drain pipes to it shall be
provided with a running trap and fresh air inlet on the house side
of the trap; when possible vent pipe to be run from top ,or covered
cesspool upithe side of the side of the outhouse, or eighteen
inches above the surface of the ground and apped with return bend.
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No ceespool or privy vault will be permitted where a sewer exists
and no drain or cesspool or privy vault will be allowed to discharge
directly into any storm sewer or sanitary sewer in the City of Kalispell*
No direct opening into any sanitary sewer or itorm sewer will be per-
mitted from any building, house, outhouse, or shed of any kind or
description, except that connections with a sanitary sewer may be
made as provided for in this ordinance, or under the direction or
with the approval of the City Engineer of the City of Kalispell.
No cesspool will be permitted where an established sewer exists,
and no cesspool or privy vault will be allowed to discharge into
any sewer.
Section 28. Application to tap Main. All applications for the '
tapping or connection with any water mains must be made at the office
of the Water Department by owners of property to be served or their
legal agents, said applicant shall state fully all purposes for
which the water is required, the size and number of taps of other
outlets from which the water is to be drawn, and the number of the
lot and block to which the water is to be taken and used and the .
street from which it is desired -that the serviooipe shall be laid,
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such application shall show upon its face that the same.is made and
taken and accepted subject to any and all rules and regulations
then in force or to be made later for the government and control
of the said waterworks system.
Section 29. Who May Tap Main. No person other than an author-
ized employee of the Eater
Works Department,
acting under
the
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orders and directions of the Superintendent,
shall tap or
make
any perforation or opening
of any
kind, in any water main,
or any
service pi$e from which water may
be drawn.
The Water.Department
will furnish the corporation cock
and insert
the same in the main,
and charge as f_QL1ows:
Cast Iron 3/4"
$5.00
Cast Iron 1"
Woo
Kalamein. 3/4"
6.50
Kalamein
1"
7.50
Wood 3/4"
4.50
Wood
1"
5.50
Section 30. Service Pipes; All service pipes must be laid
at least four } feet below the surface of the ground, lead pipe must be
used on paved streets and of that quality designated as Extra Strong,
to be not less than three fourths of
an inch pipe and in accordance
with the following table:
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inch pipe, A lbs. per lineal
foot
1 inch pipe, 41 lbs. per lineal
foot
li inch pipe,6 lbs. per lineal
foot
l*.inch pipe,* lbs. per lineal
foot
2 inch pipe,10.lbs. per lineal
foot
Either lead or galvanized iron
service pipe may be used at the
option of the applicant on streets not
paved, subject, however,
to any city ordinance regulating the
same. For galvanized iron
pipe there.must be a lead connection
between the corporation cock
and union with the iron pipe which shall not be less than two feet
for f inch pipe and two and one half
feet for one inch pipe. In
all cases these connections must be
bent in "S• or other approved
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shape to allow for movement in the iron pipe, and in no case shall
lead be soldered into iron pipe, All lead connections to corporations
cocks must be thoroughly blocked from bottomk of trenches to prevnet
settling.
Section 31. Curb Cock. The curb cock to be used in making all
connections with the City Mains shall be of the Mueller Extra Bound
Way inverted Key "Minneapolis" Curb Cock or such other make of curb
cook as shall be approved by the Superintendent of the Water Works,
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with a Minneapolis stop box and shall be left securely protected,
the cap or top of said box shall in all cases be on the level
with the side walk or parking, where there is a curb the stop
cock shall in all cases be laid inside the curb and as near thereto
as practicable, where there is no curb the same shall be laid not
more than four inches from the street edge of side walk, and must be
installed and left in such manner that no trouple will be experienced
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in turning on,or off the water. .
Section 32. Regulations for,Excavating and Filling Trenches.
The street must be opened in the manner which will occasion the
least inconvenience -to the public. No excavation in any street or
alley shall be left open over night unless properly guarded with
rails and red lights, as above mentionedi and every precaution
must be -taken to insure public safety and permission having been
received therefor.
(a) And after,the service pipe is properly laid and connected the
same shall be inspected, after which the refilling must proceed
at ones, thoroughly tamped or puddled, or both; and so done that
there should be no surplus earth left.
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(b) No rubbish or stone shall be allowed -in refilling, should there
be a deficiency of earth to fill the excavation then the plumber
must supply such deficiency with clean sand or -gravel so to leave
the street or alley in.as good condition as previous to removal.
The plumber must keep such tranoh up to grade for a period of one
year from date of finishing the work.
(c) For the purpose of testing new work, or repairs to service
pipes or house plumbing, the plumbers may turn the water on or off
at curb cock but in all cases must be left in same condition as
found prior to any work in connection with the water system.
Section 33. That portion of the house drain which is inside
of the walls and three feet outside the area or foundation walls ,
shall be constructed of what is known to commerce as extra heavy
east-iron'soil-pipe and extra heavy fittings, the weight of the pipe
to be as follows:
2-inch
5
pounds
per
foot.
3-inch
9
pounds
per
foot.
4-inch
12*
pounds
per
foot.
5-inch
16*
pounds
per
foot.
6-inch
154
pounds
per
foot.
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7-inch, 26* ,pounds per foot,
8-inch 33, pounds per foot.
10-inch 44* pounds per foot.
12-inch 53* pounds per foot.
Section 34., All pipes and fittings to be sound and free from
sand holes or other defects, and of uniform thickness. Uhanges
' in direction shall be made with "Y" branches and one -eighth bends.
Connections with vertical soil pipes shall be made with "Y"
branches, eighth bends and sanitary tees,
Section 35• House grains shall be securely anchored to the walls
with iron pipe hooks acid not less than five feet apart, or laid
in trenches of.Uniform grade or suspended from the floor timbers
in strong hangers. All vertical soil pipes shall be supported
by pipe rests, at least one to each floor.
Section 36. A running trap of same size as soil. pipe, provided
with a fresh air inlet and an accessible cleanout connection not less
than two inches in diameter shall be inserted into the house drain
inside the fpundation or area wall on the house side of the trap
1•eading
to the
putside
and opening at some convenient place
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not less
than
four feet
from nearest window.
The ends of all drains and bench drains and every 35 feet of said
drains shall be provided with brass cleanout connections placed in an
accessible position.
Drain and soil pipes shall have a uniform grade toward sewer or
cesspool of not less than one-fourth of one inch per foot. When such
grade cannot be obtained special permit may be obtained from the
Inspector of Plumbing for a less fall per foot, provided it is not
than one -eighth of an inc&.
Soil pipes receiving the discharge from one or more water clasets
shall not be less than four inches in diameter, and continue un-
diminished in size to the highest roof of the building, and shall
' be placed 5 feet above or 10 feet away From any opening or window.
All cleanouts must be brass screw plugs, same diameter as waste
pipe and traps.
Section 37. All joints to be packed with picked oakum run with
molten lead and thoroughly calked. Connections of lead pipes
with drain or soil pipes shall be made with brass or combination
ferrules, with properly wiped joints and calked into iron pipe.
Section 38. Ventilating.pipes when not lead or east iron
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shall be galvanized wrought iron.- Vent pipes must be run as straight,.
and direct as practicable and with grade to avoid trapping or con-
densation. Forty-five degree ells shall be used at all times
where practicable, vents shall be run up separately through the
roof in all buildings more than three stories high,,and when less
then four inches in diameter below the.roof they shall be increased
in size to at least four inches from a point eighteen inches b'slarw '
the roof, and when four -inch vents shall be used they shall be in-
creased in size to at least six inches at point eighteen inches
below the roof. In one and two and three-story buildings the vent
pipe may be connected sith the main soil pipe at a point not less than
three feet above the highest fixture; said soil pipe to be increased
to six inches, eighteen inches below the roof and continue that size
up to at least.eighteen inches above the roof.
Where vent and soil pipes pierce the roof, the -opening shall
be properly flashed with sheet lead, by either calking into hub
or soil pipe at surface of roof, or in casing pipe at least twelve
inches above with sheet lead, easing made tight at top;. flashing
to extend at least nine inches on all sides of pipe. '
Local vent pipes may be run in, up or out of the heated flue;
in such cases the increase may be omitted. Connections of lead
pipes with wrought iron pipes shall be made with brass soldering
nipples with properly wiped joints.
Every sink, bath tub, wash tray, basin, water closet, urinal,
and every -fixture -having a waste pipe shall be separated and in-
dependently trapped with water sealing trap, placed as near the fixture
as practicable. A range of not more than four basins, or a range of
not more than three laundry tubs shall be in either case construed
as one fixture. All traps, with the exception of traps receving waste
from bar fixtures shall be protected from.syphonage and air pressure
by special air or vent pipe of size not less than waste pipe up '
to and including two inches. Over two inches and exceeding four
inches two-inch vents shall,be used. Wach vent shall have a trap
screw wipes nto it not more than six inches.above where it connects
with the trap. Each trap shall extend two feet above the fixtures
it serves before connecting with other vent pipes. Traps must be
placed above floors or in accessible locations.
'Waste from bath tubs and wash trays to be connected to drum trap
with trap screw not less than three inches in diameter and placed
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as close to the fixtures as practicable in an accessible location.
Drum traps must not be less than four inches in diameter and not less
than four inches high.
All vent pipes exceeding thirty (30) feet in length shall
be increased one isze every succedding thirty (30) or fraction
thereof, Size of vent pipes except for water closets and slop sinks
' shall not be less than the trap it serves. The size of vent pipes
for water closets and slop sinks shall not be less than two (2) inches.
The following will be allowed:
2-1-i-inch vent openings on 1 1i-inch pipe.
4 1i inch vent openings on 1 1f inch pipe.
12 1* inch vdnt openings on 12-inch pipe.
6 2-inch vent openings on 1 2-inch pipe.
12 2-inch vent openings on 1 2j pipe.
24 2-inch vent openings on 1 3-inch pipe.
Nineteen (19) water closets vents or their equivalent may be gathered
and returned into a four (4) inch vent stack. Twenty (20) or more
water closets or their equivalent may be gathered and returned into
' a five (5) inch stack. Connection to stack shall be made at least
two (2) feet above the highest fixture.
Section 39. Sewer pipe, soil pipe waste pipe or ventilation
pipe shall not be constructed of brick, earthenware or sheet metal,
and chimney flues shall not be used for such ventilators$ In no
case shall wrought iron pipe be used under ground for waste or vent
pipe.
Section 40. No waste pipe shall be less than one and one-fourth
inch for one €inure and not to exceed two fixtures; one and one-
half inches for three fixtures and not to exceed six fixtures.
Wastes from bath tubs, sinks, laundry tubs and urinals shall be one
and one-half inches. Lead wastes shall not be of less weight than
' the grade known as extra light.
In no case shall the waste pipe from any other fixture connect,
to the house side or in the seal of any water closet trap,
and such connections shall be made so that the discharge of the
waste will not disturb the seal in the water closet trap.
No refrigerator or other receptacle in which previsions are
stored shall be connected with the drain, soil, waste, vent pipe or
discharge upon the ground beneath the building, but in every case there
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shall be an open, trapped tray beneath the refrigerator or discharge
into sink or fixture. Safe wastes, drip or overflow pipes must run
to some place in open sight and discharge over sink or other fixture
and in no case shall any such pipes connect with drain, soil, waste,
vent pipe or rainwater leader, and in no ease shall safe waste
pipes under water closets or urinals be connected with safe waste
pipes under any other fisture.
Section 41, waste pipes from kitchen sinks in any hotel,
restaurant or any other dwelling house shall run separate to grease
trap in yard when practicabie; and when same is not practicable to
put in yard a grease trap shall be placed below such sink, said grease
trap to be Wolf's enameled cast iron or other similar iron, or if made
of lead to weigh not less than six pounds to the square foot and to
the six inches in diameter and fourteen inches high.
Grease traps in :yards shall be constructed of eight inch brick,
laid in good hydraulic cement mortar, be plastered at least one inch
thick with hydraulic cement mortar made in proportion of one part
cement to two parts sand. Grease traps to have stone or iton covers
not to be placed more than six inches below grade. Grease traps for ,
small buildings or ordinary dwellings shall not be less than twenty-
four inches in diameter, hotels, restaurants, or other cooking
establishments to have grease traps not less than forty inches
in diameter, `and according:;.to direction of the Plumbing Inspector
or Uity Engineer.
Bar drains shall be connected with a drum trap of not less
than six inches in diameter, all floors drains shall be properly
trapped and vented, and such work shall be done in accordance with
the direction of the Inspector of Plumbing. In no case shall sink
waste discharge through closet or slop sink connection, but must dis-
charge through two inch "Y" in stack or house sewer.
Section 42. Every water closet or'gtoup of water closets within '
a building shall be flushed from a separate tank or cistern; the
flush pipe to not be less than one and one-fourth inch. All water
closets to be connected with lead bends beaten down to receive flange
of closet.
No person shall place in any building a whirlpool wash water closet
or pan water closet, and when` such closet is moved for repairs it
shall not be replaced.` All public urinals shall be supplied with
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flush tanks.
Outside water closets must be separately trapped with clean -out
trap, soil pipe have lead connection flange on floor to receive
hopper, hopper to be flushed with seat atached to valve by heavy
chain.
Waste for valve to be trapped when connected with sewer outside
of water closet trap; trap for water closet and valve to be set in vault
below freezing and accesible for repairs.
Section 43. No steam exhaust, blow -off or drip pipes shall be
connected with sewer or any drain, soil pipe, waste pipe, vent pipe,
or rainwater leader when within a building,but shall discharge into
an open tank or condenser, from which a sole connection to sewer
or House drain may be provided.
Section 44. Rainwater leaders shall not be connected with the
sewer system, except,when especially authorized in writing by the
City Engineer. Rainwater leaders when within a building shall be
extra heavy cast iron soil pipe or standard wrought iron pipe,
tarred inside and out or galvanized and shall be properly flashed
' and tested to roof, Rainwater leaders shall in all cases have a
trap or back pressure valve before entering the sewer or soil pipe,
Section 45. Nothing in this ordinances shall prevent theuse of
wrought iron soil and waste pipes with Durham fittings and tarred
inside and out with coar tar pitch applied hot or galvanized.
Section 46. 'When additional fistures or alterations are required
and the same are not practicable to be constructed in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance, a special permit may be
issued by the Inspector of Plumbing.
Section 47. The Inspector shall be notified when the work is
ready for inspection and test, by registering the number of permit
and the location of the work in the register book kept for that
purpose in the office of the Inspector of Plumbing. All work shall
' be left uncovered for examination until all the inspection herein
Mentioned, except the final inspection, having been made. Such
examination, except for final examination, shall cost the sum of
$1.00 for each six fixtures or fractional part thereof, which sum
shall be collected from the person, firm or corporation to whom the
permit is issued by the Jlumbing Inspector at the time of the permit
is issued.
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The whole system of drain, soil, waste- and ventilation pipes shall be
Palled with water or subjected to an air pressure, of five
pounds per square inch, and in all eases where only a part of the
system has been tested at one time the inspector shall require
an additional test of the whole system and it shall be absolutely
tight. If, upon such examination and test the Plumbing Inspector. -
finds that the said work is not absolutely tight or is not in accordance.
with the statements, drawings, plans, etc, filed at the time the
permit was issued and is not satisfactory to the said Plumber
Inspector, then he shall notify the person, firm or corporation
doing said work of the s aid fact, and thereafter when the work
is again ready for examination as hereinbefore provided,the
Inspector shall be notified as hereinbefore provided, and the
Inspector shall again make such test and examination, and so
on until the work is absolutely tight and is done according
to the statements, plans, drawings, etc. upon which the permit
was issued or is satisfactory to the Plumbing Inspector. For
each such additional examination the sum of one dollar for each
six fistures or fractional part thereof shall be collected from the
person, firm or corporation to whom the permit is issued. After ail
the fistures have been placed in position and the work completed
the person, firm or corporation to whom the permit is issued shall
within three days, notify the Plumbing Inspector, and a final test
equal to the pressure of one inch of water shall be applied, and if
found to be Right and in accordance with this ordinance the In -
spector shall so certify on the face of the permit, and no plumb-
ing shall be used until such certificate is made by the Inspector.
The money collected, as herein provided, shall on the first day
of each month be paid by the Inspector to the City Treasurer.
Section 48. Yo person, firm or corporation shall run or extend
any water service pipes or make any connection thereto for any
purpose whatsoever, who shall not first have obtained a permit
therefor as required by this ordinance, and he or they shall be
amenable to all sections of this ordinance relative to the excav-
action and filling of trenches or such other matters pertaining
to that class of work as herein contained.
Section 49. All service pipes for water supply attached
to any water main in the City of Kalispell shall be for good,
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sound, galvanized iron or lead pipe, evenly laid in the bottom
of trenches at least six and one-half feet below the established
surface grade, and sufficiently strong to withstand a pressure
of three hundred pounds per square inch. ,The stop box,on all
service pipes shall be placed just inside the curb and shall have
top set to grade or level with the top of the sidewalk,
Dater supply pipes shall in no case be laid in the same trench
with the sewer pipe. All service pipes hereafter laid in any of the
street within the limits of fire district no. 1 of the City of
Kalispell should be of lead from the main up to the and with the
area wall or inside &f the building. When streets are paved,all
iron service pipes shall be taken up and replaced with lead pipe,
No new Icon pipe shall be laid within fire district No. 1 to
repair a,broken or defective pipe, but the whole service, up,to
an inside of the building or area wall must be replaced by lead
pipe.
All lead pipe used for service and connections to fixtures
shall be of the grade known as "strong" or extra strong, subject to
' approval of Supt. of Water Department.
All joints in lead service pipes shall be wiped joints; no
cup joint will be allowed.
All joints between lead and iron pipe shall be made with brass
soldering nipples or with ground soldering unions. Unions in,iron
pipe for hot water shall be ground unions or skull be packed with
asbestos or vulcanized gaskets, or any other material not fable
to injury from hot water.
No cock shall be placed at the end of any line of water pipe,
but all supplies, to fixtures shall have a suitable air chamber
of at least twelve inches.
Section 50. A stop and waste cock shall be placed on the
' supply pipe just inside the cellar or area walls, easy of access
and pipes so graded that when cock is closed the whole system
of supply pipes will be perfectly drained at that point.
Section 51. No steam boiler or hot water heating.apparatus
ged by the direct water pressure shall be connected to any water
main or supply without a proper check valve placed between the said
boiler or heater and main.
Section 52. All work in any manner connected with the running of
water pipes for household water supply or any extension thereof
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shall be jubject to the inapection,and approval of the Plumbing ,
Inspector, and any faulty or defective work which may at any time
be discovered shall be made satisfactory to Jbaid officer,
Section 53, .any person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of heating and ventilation by steam, hot water, hot air or
furnace heating, or any owner shall first have obtained a permit
therefor as provided by this ordinance and shall, before doing
any work in any building within the limits of the City of Kalispell,,
have submitted a plan or statement covering the details of such work
before obtaining a permit therefor from the Inspector of Plumbing
said work, the arrangement of boiler or furnace room shall be
subject to the approval of the Inspector of Buildings and shall
comply with all the requirements pretaining to such work, which
are contained.in this ordinance and in the building ordinance.
Section.54. It is hereby made the duty of the Inspector of
Plumbing to secure the proper enforcement of this ordinance and to
promptly investigate any information he amy receive of its violation
and to promptly proceed with the complaint and its prosecution
in any case of its viilation of which he may have knowledge or due I
an5l reliab9e information.
Section 55• Any owner, agent, architect, drain layer, plumber
superintendent, contractor or other person failing, neglecting
omitting, resisting or refusing to comply with any of the conditions
terms, regulations or requirements of this ordinance shall, upon
conviction, be fined in the sum of not less than two dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and futther
penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars will be imposed
for each day such violation is allowed or suffered to continue; and
after the first fine has been imposed upon axW person, firm or
corporation having a license or permit under this ordinance from
the City of Kalispell,for any violation of the provisions herein
the Mayor may suspend or revoke the license or permit of any such
person, firm or corporation having such a license or permit.
Section 56. All ordinances and all parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 57. This ordinance has to do with Public Health
and Public Safety, and is therefor declared an emergency ordinance
and shall take effect immediately upon its passage by the City
Council.
Passed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor of the
City of Kalispell this first day of June 1925.
A. E. Boorman, Mayor
ATTEST: P. F. Holzknecht,
City Clerk.
STATE OF MONTANA )
' COUNTY OF FLATHEAD( SS.
CITY OF KALISPELL )
I, P. F. Holzknecht, Clerk of the City of Kalispell,
Montana, do hereby certify that on the 2nd day of June, 1925, I posted
a copy of the foregoing Ordinance No. 385 in my office and that same
remained posted for a period of five days thereafter, and that the
foregoing record is a true copy of the ordinances as passed by the
Council.
Dated this 2nd day of June, 1925.
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City C k.