§ 8-025 — Rules for Connections to Water and Sewer Systems

8-025. Rules for Connections to Water and Sewer Systems.

The commissioner of building inspection with the approval of the common council, may also make rules and regulations for the proper ventilating and trapping of all drains, soilpipes and fixtures hereafter constructed to connect with or be used in connection with the sewerage or water supply of the city, and the common council may provide by ordinance for the enforcement of such rules and regulations, and may prescribe proper penalties and punishment for disobedience of the same. The commissioner of building inspection with the approval of the common council, may also make rules to regulate the use of vent, soil, drain, sewer and water pipes in all buildings in the city, which hereafter shall be proposed to be connected with the city water supply or sewerage, specifying the dimensions, strength and material of which the same shall be made, and which may prohibit the introduction into any building of any style of water fixture, trap or connection, the use of which shall have been determined to be dangerous to health or for any reason unfit to be used, and the commissioner shall require a rigid inspection by a skilled and And City Engineer competent inspector under the direction of the commissioner of all plumbing and draining work and water and sewer connections hereafter done or made in any building in the city, and unless the same are done or made, and made according to the rules of the commissioner and approved by the commissioner, no connection of the premises with the city sewerage or water supply shall be allowed.

(HISTORY: S. 1, Ch. 463, L. 1887. 8-025 rn. from 14-25 and am. File #871181, Oct. 27, 1987.)