[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of
the City of Gloversville 12-27-1985 by L.L. No. 8-1985. Amendments noted where applicable.]
All construction, operation, connection or repairs
to public or private sewers or plumbing system work in the City of
Gloversville shall be done under and in accordance with the New York
State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code[1] and these rules, and all sewers, public or private, are
understood to be a portion of the sewer system of the City of Gloversville.
Unless otherwise stated, all definitions shall
be the same as found in the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code.
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall construct, alter
or repair any plumbing system or building sewer or perform plumbing
or make any connection whatever with any sewer belonging to the City
sewer system or do any kind of work connected with the construction,
alteration or repair of any building sewers or plumbing work connected
or designed to be connected with the City sewer system unless licensed
by the City Clerk.
B.
Temporary license. The City Clerk shall grant to a duly licensed plumber of another municipality within the State of New York a temporary license for the performance of work on the plumbing or drainage on a specified job. The City Clerk may grant the temporary license upon payment of fifteen dollars ($15.), and the applicant must furnish a copy of his license in the other municipality and must comply with the bond and insurance requirements as specified in § 232-6.
[Amended 12-27-1988 by Ord. No. 88-36]
C.
Exceptions. Any person listed by the County Clerk's
office of Fulton County as owning a one-family or two-family dwelling
in the City of Gloversville and having lived in the dwelling for at
least ninety (90) days may perform plumbing work therein in accordance
with the provisions of these rules and regulations and permits and
inspections, provided that the dwelling owner satisfactorily appears
to the Plumbing Inspector to be qualified to do such work. A decision
by the Plumbing Inspector not to grant the dwelling owner of a one-family
or two-family dwelling a permit to perform his own work may be appealed,
in writing, to the Examining Board of Plumbers at its next regularly
scheduled meeting.
D.
The fee set forth in Subsection B hereinabove shall be waived for a plumber licensed in the City of Johnstown, New York; however, a violation of these rules and regulations by a plumber licensed in the City of Johnstown, New York, shall be referred by the Examining Board of Plumbers of Gloversville, New York, to the Examining Board of Plumbers of Johnstown, New York, for appropriate action by said Board.
[Added 8-26-86 by L.L. No. 6-1986]
The Examining Board of Plumbers is hereby established
in accordance with Article 4, § 40-a, of the New York State
General City Law.
[Amended 12-27-1988 by Ord. No. 88-35; 5-9-2017 by Ord. No.
1-2017]
Any person desiring to do business as a plumber in the City
of Gloversville shall be required to pay a fee in the amount of $100
and submit to an examination before the Examining Board of Plumbers
as to his or her experience and qualification in such business, trade
or calling. It shall not be lawful for any person to conduct such
trade, business or calling unless he or she first obtained a certificate
of competency from the Examining Board of Plumbers of the City of
Gloversville.
A.
The City Clerk shall issue a master plumber license
after the plumber has met the following requirements:
(1)
Certificate of competency. Before commencing business,
every employing or master plumber carrying on his trade or calling
shall register his name and address at the office of the City Clerk
and shall submit a certificate of competency issued by the Examining
Board of Plumbers of Gloversville.
(2)
Bond. Every licensed master plumber shall post a bond
in the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.) assuring
that the City of Gloversville and the Water Board will be reimbursed
for any damage caused by the master plumber. The bond shall be in
such form as the City Attorney requires.
(3)
Insurance. Every licensed master plumber shall file
with the City Clerk proof of insurance in the amount of at least:
[Amended 4-25-1995 by L.L. No. 4-1995]
(a)
One million dollars ($1,000,000.) for public
liability/general aggregate.
(b)
Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.) minimum
combined single limit for bodily injury/property damage.
(c)
Workers' compensation as required by New York
State statute or written statement as to why none is required.
(d)
All insurance shall name the City of Gloversville
as additional insured.
(4)
All insurance and bonds shall be approved by the City
Attorney and, upon approval, the City Attorney shall affix his signature
to the license.
B.
No license will be granted for more than one (1) year,
and all licenses will be granted to expire the first day of January
in each year.
C.
Issuance of licenses.
A.
The Examining Board of Plumbers may revoke the license
of any master plumber or any temporary license for the violation of
these rules or regulations, the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code or other applicable rules, regulations, codes, ordinances
or statutes. However, no license shall be revoked without a hearing
as prescribed in this section.
B.
Upon petition by the Plumbing Inspector or an aggrieved
person, the Examining Board of Plumbers shall hold a hearing to determine
if a license shall be revoked. The Examining Board of Plumbers shall
give twenty (20) days' written notice to the licensee, at the address
listed with the City Clerk, and to the Plumbing Inspector, Building
Inspector and petitioner of the date and time of said hearing.
C.
The Examining Board of Plumbers shall hear such testimony
as the Plumbing Inspector or aggrieved person and the licensee and
any other person or persons called as a witness by any of the foregoing
shall offer relative to the revocation of the license. The Examining
Board of Plumbers shall make written findings of fact from the testimony
offered and issue an order based on these findings within thirty (30)
days.
(1)
Said order shall list the terms of the revocation,
the duration of the revocation and the manner in which the license
may be reinstated if revoked.
(2)
Three (3) members of the five-member Examining Board
of Plumbers, voting for revocation, shall be required in order to
revoke a license.
(3)
The licensee, the aggrieved person or the Plumbing
Inspector may appeal the decision of the Board of Plumbing Examiners
to the Common Council within thirty (30) days of receipt of said decision.
Said appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk.
(4)
The Common Council shall render its decision within
sixty (60) days from the date said appeal is filed with the City Clerk,
and the decision of the Common Council shall be final.
(5)
Once a license has been revoked and the decision upheld
by the Common Council, no new license shall be hereafter issued to
said licensee without the consent of two-thirds (2/3) of the Common
Council.
B.
Permits to make connections with the sewer system
will be issued only when the plan for the plumbing work on the property
has been approved or when the owner agrees, in writing, that the connection
shall remain sealed. Existing sewers, drains or plumbing to be connected
with the sewer system must be approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
A.
No cesspool or privy vault shall be connected with
any sewer.
B.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in
any sewer, any opening or receptacle connected with the sewer system
of the City or any private sewer any garbage, offal, dead animals,
vegetable parings, ashes, cinders, rags or any other matter or thing
whatsoever, except feces, urine, the necessary toilet paper and liquid
house or mill slops, or except when introduced through a properly
connected food waste grinder.
C.
The Plumbing Inspector shall have the power to stop
and prevent from discharging into the sewer system any private sewer
or drain through which substances are discharged which are liable
to damage the sewer or obstruct the flow of sewage.
No sanitary sewer shall be connected with or
discharge into any manhole or catch basin connected therewith without
the written permission of the City Engineer.
No person, firm or corporation shall damage,
break or remove any portion of any manhole, lamphole, flush tank catch
basin or any part of the sewer system or throw or cause to be deposited
there anything whatsoever without the written permission of the City
Engineer.
The ends of all private sewers not immediately
connected with the plumbing fixtures shall be securely closed by a
watertight, imperishable material.
A.
All materials must be of good quality and free from
defects; the work must be executed in a thorough and workmanlike manner.
B.
All materials shall be as listed in the New York State
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code,[1] with the following additions:
(1)
Building sewers. Building sewer piping within property
lines or under public ways shall be not less than four (4) inches
in diameter and shall be not less than service-weight cast-iron soil
pipe, first quality, salt-glazed vitrified earthenware pipe, concrete
sewer pipe, ASTM-3034 pipe (where proper connections can be made)
or hard-temper copper tube of Type K or L, unless laid less than two
(2) feet deep, when it shall be cast-iron soil pipe. Chemical waste
piping shall be of materials approved for such use.
(2)
Underground storm drainage piping. Underground storm
drainage piping three (3) feet from the outside of exterior wells
shall be not less than service-weight cast-iron pipe, hard-temper
copper tube of Type K or L, concrete sewer pipe, clay sewer pipe or
ASTM-3034 pipe.
(3)
Double-hub installation. There shall be no double
hubs or double-hub fittings allowed on soil or waste pipes, except
above the highest fixture.
(4)
Soil and waste pipe installation. No soil or waste
pipe shall have a fall of less than one-fourth (1/4) inch to one (1)
foot, without special permission from the Plumbing Inspector.
A.
The following traps are approved: Cudell antisiphon,
Sanitas, Clean Sweep, McAuliffe and the Hajoca basin trap. All traps
must be made accessible. All brass traps must be antisiphon, seventeen-gauge
metal and cast brass body.
[Amended 5-9-2017 by Ord.
No. 1-2017]
B.
A two-inch vent will be allowed for an additional
bathroom, provided that there is another four-inch vent on the premises.
Galvanized pipe may be used above the highest fixtures.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter or any
provision or rule or regulation adopted by the Common Council pursuant
to authority granted by this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished
as follows:
[Amended 5-9-2017 by Ord.
No. 1-2017]
(1)
For a first conviction, the defendant shall receive a fine in the
amount of $500.
(2)
For a second conviction, the defendant shall receive a fine in the
amount of $1,000.
(3)
For a third conviction, the defendant shall receive a tine in the
amount of $1,500, and any license or permit previously issued by the
City of Gloversville shall be revoked.
B.
Each day that such a violation is permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense.
C.
Except as provided otherwise by law, such a violation
shall not be a crime, and the penalty or punishment imposed therefor
shall not be deemed for any purpose a penal or criminal penalty or
punishment and shall not impose any disability upon or affect or impair
the credibility as a witness, or otherwise, of any person found guilty
of such an offense.
This chapter shall not be construed to relieve
from or lessen the responsibility of any person, firm or corporation
owning, operating, controlling or installing any plumbing works, devices,
appliances or equipment for loss of life or damage to person or property
caused by any defect therein or caused by act of said person, firm
or corporation, nor shall the City of Gloversville be deemed to have
assumed any such liability by reason of issuing the aforesaid licenses,
permits or any inspection made pursuant to this chapter.
