A.Â
The plumbing and drainage systems, water-supply pipes, gas piping,
steam or hot-water heating or power systems, refrigerating systems
and other systems of pipes or apparatus for holding or conveying gasses,
vapors or fluids hereafter installed and maintained in or upon any
building in the Village shall conform to such rules as may be provided
by law, including the New York State Plumbing Code, or may be found
necessary for the protection of life, health or property, and adopted
by the Superintendent of Buildings. No person shall use or permit
the use of any system, piping or apparatus installed or maintained
in violation of any of the provisions of this article or the rules
adopted hereunder.
B.Â
Nothing herein contained or in the rules adopted hereunder shall
require the alteration or reconstruction of any existing work that
was lawfully installed, nor prevent repairs to the addition of new
fixtures to existing work in conformity with the practice followed
in the original installation; provided, however, that when such repairs
involve the removal or alteration of more than 1/2 of the existing
work affected by the repairs, the rules in force at the time of such
repairs shall apply.
Every building hereafter erected and also every existing building,
other than residence buildings occupied exclusively by one or two
families and having not more than 15 sleeping rooms, which may be
supplied from some outside source with gas, vapor or fluid, except
potable waters, shall have a conveniently accessible stopcock or other
suitable device fixed to the supply pipes leading into the building
at a place outside of the building, so arranged as to allow the supply
to be shut off. Such stopcock or other device shall be so marked as
to indicate either the contents and purposes of the supply pipe to
which it is attached or the company to which the device belongs, and,
in addition, shall comply with any state code requirements.
No person shall use or permit the use of any new system of plumbing
and drainage hereafter installed in any building before the same has
been tested under the supervision of the Building Department and in
accordance with its rules, to ensure the tightness of the system,
nor until a proper and adequate water supply has been provided. The
Superintendent of Buildings shall, within a reasonable time after
being requested to do so, cause to be inspected and tested any system
of plumbing and drainage that is ready for such inspection and test,
and if the work is found satisfactory and the test requirements are
complied with, he shall issue a certificate to that effect. Nothing
herein contained shall prevent the inspection and test of part of
a system or the issuance of a partial certificate, nor prevent the
use of such part of a larger system, provided that such part constitutes
by itself a complete system, properly tested and supplied with water.
No person shall use or permit the use of any new system or an
extension of an old system of gas piping in any building before the
same has been inspected and tested under the supervision of the Building
Department and in accordance with its rules, to ensure the tightness
of its system. The Superintendent of Buildings shall, within a reasonable
time after being requested to do so, cause to be inspected and tested
any system of gas piping that is ready for such inspection and test,
and if the work is found satisfactory and the test requirements are
complied with, he shall issue a certificate to that effect. Nothing
herein contained shall prevent the use of existing systems of gas
piping without further inspection or test, unless the Superintendent
of Buildings has reason to believe that defects exist which make the
system dangerous to life or property.
A.Â
On the first day of each biennial calendar year, every employing
or master plumber carrying on this trade, business or calling in the
Village shall register his name and address at the office of the Building
Department in the Village in which he performs work under such rules
as the Department may prescribe. Such registration may be cancelled
by the Village Board for a violation of the rules and regulations
for plumbing or drainage of such Village duly adopted, or in force
pursuant to the provisions of this article, or whenever the person
so registered ceases to hold a certificate from the Examining Board
of Plumbers or to be actually engaged in the business of master or
employing plumber, after a hearing before said Superintendent, upon
prior notice of not less than 10 days.
B.Â
No person, corporation or copartnership shall engage in or carry
on the trade, business or calling of employing or master plumber in
the Village unless the name and address of such person and the president,
secretary or treasurer of the corporation, or of each and every member
of the copartnership, shall have been registered as above provided.
C.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or copartnership
in the Village of Malverne, unless said person, corporation or copartnership
shall have complied with the requirements of this section, to hold
himself or themselves out to the public as a master or employing plumber
by the use of the word "plumber" or "plumbing" or words of similar
import or meaning, on signs, cards, stationery or in any other manner
whatsoever.
D.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or copartnership
in the Village of Malverne to engage in or carry on the trade, business
or calling or employment of master plumber unless such person, corporation
or copartnership has conspicuously posted in the window of the place
where such business is conducted a metal plate or sign appropriately
lettered or marked "licensed plumber" in accordance with rules adopted
by the Superintendent of Buildings.
E.Â
No person, corporation or copartnership registered as provided in
this section, or who holds a certificate from the Examining Board
of Plumbers, shall, for the benefit any person engaged in the plumbing
business who is not so registered, apply for, receive or make use
of any permit granted to him by reason of being so registered, or
holding such certificate from the Examining Board of Plumbers.
F.Â
A plumber hereafter must pass a practical and theoretical test as to his knowledge of the plumbing rules of the Town of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead, Town of Oyster Bay and/or a Village-approved governing authority, except as provided for in Subsection G of this section.
G.Â
Application for license. Any person desiring a master plumber's
license shall make application in writing to the Department of Buildings.
At the time of making the application, the duly licensed master plumber
shall submit a certified or photostatic copy of a certificate of competency
and license issued by the Examining Board of Plumbers of the Town
of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead, Town of Oyster Bay and/or of
a Village-approved governing authority.
H.Â
The fee for a plumbing license shall be required as determined by
resolution issued by the Board of Trustees.
No plumbing work shall be started until a permit has been obtained
from the Superintendent of Buildings.
A.Â
Drawings and triplicate descriptions, on forms furnished by the Building
Department, for all plumbing drainage, shall be properly filled in
and filed by the owner or architect in the Department of Buildings.
The plans must be drawn to scale in ink on paper or they must be cloth
prints of such scale drawings, and shall consist of such floor plans
and sections as may be necessary to show clearly all plumbing work
to be done, and must show partitions and methods of ventilating water-closet
apartments.
B.Â
The plumbing and drainage shall not be commenced or proceeded with
until said drawings and descriptions shall have been so filed and
approved by the Superintendent of Buildings.
C.Â
No modification of the approved drawings and descriptions will be
permitted unless either amended drawings and triplicate descriptions,
or an amendment to the original drawings and descriptions covering
the proposed change or changes, are so filed and approved by the Superintendent
of Buildings.
D.Â
The drainage and plumbing of all buildings, both public and private,
shall be executed in accordance with the rules and regulations as
hereinbefore stated.
E.Â
Repairs or alterations of plumbing or drainage may be made without
filing drawings and descriptions in the Department of Buildings, but
such repairs or alterations shall not be construed to include cases
where new vertical lines or horizontal branches of soil, waste, bent
or leader pipes are proposed to be used.
F.Â
Notice of such repairs or alterations shall be given to the Department
of Buildings before the same are commenced in such cases as shall
be prescribed by the rules and regulations as hereinbefore mentioned,
and the work shall be done in accordance with said rules and regulations.
G.Â
Where repairs or alterations, ordered by the Board of Health or for
sanitary reasons, include cases where new vertical and horizontal
lines of soil, waste, vent or leader pipes are proposed to be used
or old ones replaced, drawings and descriptions must be filed with
and approved by the Superintendent of Buildings before the same shall
be commenced or proceeded with.
H.Â
Repairs and alterations may comply in all respects with the weight,
quality, arrangement and venting of the rest of the work in the building.
Except when an existing soil, waste or vent line has been damaged
by fire or other causes to the extent of 50% or more of its entire
length, the same must be replaced by new lines installed in accordance
with the rules and regulations governing the new lines and the New
York State Building Code.
I.Â
No plumbing and drainage or any part thereof shall be commenced until
the plumber who is to do the work shall sign the specifications and
make affidavit that he is duly authorized to proceed with the work.
The affidavit must give the name and address of the owner and plumber,
etc. No registered plumber shall sign the specifications and act as
the agent for a plumber who has not obtained a certificate of competency
from the Examining Board of Plumbers as an employing or master plumber.
A violation of this rule will be deemed a sufficient reason by the
Superintendent of Buildings for the cancellation of a certificate
of registration.
J.Â
One set of specifications will be received for not more than 10 houses,
and then only when on adjoining lots and if the houses are exactly
alike.
