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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR PLUMBING
INSPECTIONS FOR ALL PLUMBING WHEREVER WATER ORIGINATING FROM
THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN WATER SYSTEMS: PROVIDING FOR A PLUMB-
ING OFFICIAL: FIXING QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PLUMBING OFFICIAL
AND PLUMBING INSPECTORS: PROVIDING FOR ADOPTION OF THE STANDARD
PLUMBING CODE: FIXING OF WATER SERVICE: REPEALING ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown, Texas, owns and operates in a governmental
capacity, a Water System as a Municipal Utility; such system having plants, pumps and
transmission lines within and without the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown, Texas
and;
WHEREAS, certain municipalities, private companies, governmental agencies, firms
and individuals not within the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown, Texas, are
purchasers of waterfrom the said Water. System, -and;
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown, Texas, is very desirous of maintaining a pure
Water Supply;
BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF. THE CITY OF
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, THAT:
Section,l. Standard Plumbing Code. The provisions and regulations of the Standard
Plumbind Code published and recommended by the Southern Building Code Congress, being
particularly the 1975 Edition, and amendments hereto, are made a part of this ordinance by
reference, three certified copies of which shall be on file in the office of the City Clerk,
and shall extend over and govern the installation of all plumbing installed, altered or repaired
wi thin or without the City of Georgetown, Texas Wherever water and/or Sewage Sys tem is
furnished.
Section 2. INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION.
(a) There is hereby created the position of Plumbing Official and Plumbing Inspectors
who shall be employed by the City of Georgetown, Texas.
(b) The plumbing official and inspectors shall have experience in plumbing to the
extent that enables him to know when plumbing is installed correctly.
(c) .The plumbing official.and1rispectors shall not be directly connected in any way
with any person, firm, or corporation directly or indirectly engaged in the business of plumb-
ing, or plumbing suppliers.
(d) The plumbing official shall receive as full compensation for his services, a salary
designated by the City of Georgetown, Texas.
(e) It shall be the duty of the plumbing official to enforce all provisions of this Ordin-
ance, and such official is hereby granted the authority to enter all buildings within or
without the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown, Texas, when such buildings are
connected, or to be connected to the Municipal water and/or Sewage System.
(f) The plumbing official shall prepare or cause to be prepared suitable forms for
applications, permits, inspection reports and other such materials.
(g) It shall be the duty of the plumbing official to inspect and.test all plumbing work
for compliance with this Ordinance and its adopted plumbing code-, and..to enforce, changing
of such installations that do not meet the requirements. It further shall be his duty to see.
that all persons installing or altering plumbing shall be qualified by State Law.
Section 3. APPLICATIONS, PERMITS.
(a) Before eginning any work -
or in t e City of Georgetown, Texas, the person installing
or altering some shall apply to the plumbing official or other designated official and obtain
a permit to do such work. Only those persons legally authorized to do plumbing may be
issued permits. A permit may be issued to a home owner to install or alter plumbing in a
single family residence, providing the home owner does the work himself and that the building
is owned and occupied by the owner as his home. All such work shall meet the code require-
ments.
(b) All applications for permits shall be made on suitable forms provided. The application
shall be accompanied by fees in accordance with paragraph 106.3 - Schedule of Permit Fees
of the Standard Plumbing Code. An. -additional charge of $2.50 for each permit issued for
installation outside the City limits is authorized. An additional fee of $2.00 shall be charged
for each additional trip on the part of the plumbing inspector, caused by the negligence
of the plumber of not being ready for inspection or a return for inspection of a corrected
installation.
Section 4. BOND.
(a) Every master plumber doing business in the ; City of Georgetown, Texas, shall execute
and deliver to the City a bond with a surety bonding company in the sum of $1.000.00 to indemnify
the City or any citizen for any damage caused by the failure of such master plumber to comply
strictly with the provisions of this ordinance. No plumbing permit shall be issued to any master
plumber unless this bond has been delivered to the City and is in full force and effect.
-Section 5. STREET OPENINGS.
(a) All openings made in the public streets or alleys to install plumbing must be made as
carefully as possible and all materials excavated from the trenches shall be removed or placed
where the least inconvenience to the public will be caused.
(b) All openings must be replaced in precisely the same condition as before the excavation
started and all rubbish and materials must be removed at once, leaving the street or sidewalks
clean and in perfect repair.
(c) All openings shall be marked with sufficient barriers. Flares or red lamps shall be main-
tained around the opening at night and all other precautions shall be taken by the plumber or
excavator to protect the public from damage to person or property.
Section 6. CROSS CONNECTIONS - BACK FLOW.
(a) The City Water Department of the City of Georgetown; Texas and the City Plumbing
Official of the City of Georgetown, Texas, be and they are hereby authorized to discontinue or
cause to be discontinued all water service or services to any and all premises, lands, buildings,
or structures where it is found that an immediate hazard exists to the purity or potability of the
city water supply.
(b) The City Water Department of the City of Georgetown, Texas and the City Plumbing
Official of the City of Georgetown, Texas, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to
take such steps as necessary to determine all potential hazards to the purity or potability of the
City Water Supply which exist. Upon determining said potential hazards it shall be the duty of
said department and said inspector to immediately cause notice to go to the owner or such other
person responsible for said premises, specifying said hazards, and notifying said person that in
the event that said hazard is not corrected within thirty (30) days from the date of_said notice,
all water services shall be discontinued thereafter until the requirements of this Code have been
complied with.
Section 7. PENALTIES.
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any of -the provisions of this ordinance
shall be subject to a fine of not more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars, together with the costs
of such prosecution. Each day during which violation continues shall be a separate offense.
Section 8. CONFLICTING ORDINANCES REPEALED.
(a) All ordinance or parts of ordinances conflictin—g—w—ith any of the provisions of this
ordinance are hereby repealed.
(b) This ordinance being for the regulation of plumbing and for the protection of the public
their provisions hereof and declared to be separable, and the invalidity of any clause, sentence,
paragraph or section hereof shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this ordinance.
Section 9. DATE OF EFFECT.
This ordinance shall e in fu I force and effect from and after its passage.
Introduced and Passed by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas on first reading
the 11th day of -August, 197.E and possed.on Second and Final .reading this 8th day of September,
1975.
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