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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1950-097COUNTY OF HAWAII TEIdtITpRY OF HAWAII ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE REI.®TING TO THE ESTABLISHING OF RULES AND AEGULATION6 FOR THE PLUkBING AND DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS AND TH$ CONSTRUCTION OF HOIISS SEWERS IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII, TERRITOIIY OF HAWAII; PROVIDING FOR THE E7CAI~INATIOA, REGISTRATION, LICENSING IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES F08 THE ORDINANCE, AND R$PEALING ALL SECTIONS AND PARTS OF SECTIONS OF ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII IA CONFLICT THEHEY~ITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF HAX`AIIt $` REGISTRATION q,r 1 Section 1. It shell be unlawful for any person, persona, firm or corporation to onrry on or oanduct the business of a plumber or do any plumbing work in the County of Hawaii without first being regiaterod at the office of the building Inepeotor and issued a liaenae to do plumbing work in the County of Hawaii. No person shall be registered unless he shall have rooeived and filed with the Hullding Inepeotor a Certificate oP Competency as a Master Plumber or Journeyman Pl~ber from the Hoard of Plumbing Examiners of the County of Aawaii= and no firm or corporation shall be registered and issued a license unless n member of the firm or employee of the corporation shell be qualified to be registerod. No plumbing work shall be done in the nsme of a registered plumber except by or under the direct supervision of a person qualified to be registered. The Building Inspector shall issue a registration oard signed by him to every person, fine or corporation ao registered, which oard shall contain the name and address of the registrant and shall state that the person, firm or corporation therein named ie duly qualified as a rogiaterod plumber. Any person, firm or corporation eo registered shall be deemed to be rogiaterod plumbs r within the requirements of this Ordinance. BOARD OF EYAMINERS a. Section 2. Appointment of Pdembera. The Chairman, with the apps al oP the Board of Supervisors, shall appoint a Board of Plwsbing Examiners, to be ]mown as the "Hoard of Plumbing Examiners of the County of Hawaii". Said Board shall aonaist of the Building Inepeotor who shall be an ex-officio member of said board and the Plumbing Inepeotor who shall be an ex-officio member and aearetnry of mid board, and three licensed Idaster Plumbers who shall have at least eight years experience in their respective trodea. A quorum shall consist of two members and the Secretary of said board. The Hoard of Plumbing Examiners shall hold two ragule.r meetings every year, one during the first half of the year and the other during the last half of the year, and special meetings at other times at the call of the Chairman of said board upon the written request of any two members. During the regular meetings, the said Hoard may adopt such rules and regulations ae may be necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of Section 2; it shall also, during said regular meetings and any adjourned meeting thereof, conduct the examinations provided for in Saotion 2, For each regular meeting, however long and for each adjourned meeting UYreof lasting more than two hours, and for each special meeting lasting moro than txo hours, each member present, other than the Building Inepeotor and Plumbing Inepeotor, shall receive Ten Dollars 010.00). ~j. ~~,~.-~ ----•-•---°"'-' - _ -.. r.,, ~,,. -------- --- ,, -: _ - __ ~t. ~~... ,. __ .- __--- .: ~-b E7CAMINATIONS Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Board of Plumbing Examiners to examine eaoh qualified applicant Por a Certificate of Competency as • Master Plumber or Journeyman Plumber and to issue to eaoh euoh applioant who satiefaotorily passes the examination, a Certificate of Competency ae a Neater Plumber or Journeyman Plumber ne the once may be. Anq person who has attained the age of twenty years and has had not lees than Pour years' experience as a Jou meyman Plumber Helper and who furnished satisfactory evidence of satisfactory work as euoh during said period may apply for a Certificate of Competency as a Journeyman Plumber. Any person who hen held a Certificate of Com- petency as a Journeyman Flumber fora period of twelve months may apply for a Certificate of Competency as a Neater Plumber. Each application for examination shall be made in writing on a form furnished by the Bureau of Building, Construction and Inspection and shall include euoh information as the Board of Plumbing Examiners shall consider necessary, including the applicant's name, age, address, length of time spent in learning or working at the trade or business oP plumbing, the place or places where hie knowledge or experience was gained, and whether or not he hen ever failed to pass satisfactorily the examina- tion for which he is applying. Beforo being examined, eaoh applioant shall pay to the Plumbing Inspector as a County realization a fee of Five Dollars 05.00) for euoh examination. If the applicant fails to pass an examination, he shall not be eligible for re-examination for six months and he shall pay a fee of Five Dollars 05.00) before sash ro-examination. The Secretary of the Board of Plumbing Examiners shall notify eaoh applioant in writing of the time and place of examination. The ezaminetiona for a Journeyman Plumber and a Neater Plumber shall be oral, written and by practical work with tools and material a. They shall aonsiet of taste in pmctinal plumbing, the aorneation of defec- tive plumbing on plans, knowledge oP the Plumbing Ordinance of the County of Hawaii, the regulations of the Board of Health and the laws of the Territory of Hawaii pertaining to plumbing. An applioant whose average grade on an examination is 75~ or better shall be considered to have passed satisfactorily, and he shall theroupon be entitled to and the Board of Plumbing Examiners shall issue to him a Certificate of Competency as a Journeyman Plumber or Master Plumber as the case may be. Section 4. Suspension of license. Any licensed master plumber who allows the use of his license, directly or indirectly for the pur- pose of obtaining permits for others or allows the use of his license by others to install plumbing, shall have hie liaenae suspended by the Board of Plumbing Examiners fora period of siz months. Bastion 6. The Building Inspector of the County of Hawaii shall issue to any person or parsons, firm or corporation, who has registered and acquired euoh Certificate of Competency, a license to do Plumbing 'Nark in the County of Hawaii. No person shall do any plumbing work without first paying the license fee and receiving a liaenae as in this Or~linanae provided. The amount of said fee shall he for Master Plumbers X1.00 per annum, and for Journey- men Plumbers X1.00 per annum. License fees shall be on an annual basis prorated to the nearest quarter of the year when the liaenae request is made. Any person who shall work ae a master and Journeyman Plumber shall secure both licenses and pay the fees required therefor. All 1loenaes shall expire on the 31st day of December, of eaoh year. Plumber's helpers and apprentices may work without a license, end shall work with and may help n regularly qualified and licensed Journeyman Plumber under the immediate inatn,etion and di reotion of euoh licensed Journey- man Flambe r. 2 - 1Vo----- --------- P'ile No--- ------ -- -------- MAR 1 1350 ~xte --------------- ----------•-----... No liaense shall be issued pursuant to this Ordinance to any parson who is not a registered plumber, as defined in thle Ordinance. MasTS H PLUMBER Section 6. Every Master Plumber must have a permanent place of business beforo registering ea a plumber or translating or doing any plumbing business. 1~hen a registered plumber or the member of a firm who has passed the required examination retires from business or dissolves copartnership, they shall forfeit their liaense and no other license shall be granted said firm until one of the remaining members of the firm shall have passed an examination before the Board of Plumbing Examiners as provided in this Ordinance. Every Master Plumber, employed by any firm or corporation, or doing buaineae in hie own name, shall only sign permit applications for work done by the firni or corporation which he is employed, and if doing business in his own name, shall only sign permit applications for work actually done in hie own name, It shall be unlawful for any Master Plumber to sign permit applications for any other firm or corporation other then the film or corporation for which he ie employed, and if doing business in his own name, for any other person, firm or corporation actually doing the work. PLt1NS OF HOUSE PLUMBING AND HOUSE SEPPERS AND APPLICATION FOR CONNECTIONS TO BE FILED Bastion 7. It shall be unlawful for any person or persona, firm or corporation to do any plumbing work of any description in any building or upon any property or to do any sewer work in the County of Hawaii, ezaept in case of stoppage in pipes or repair of leaks in drains, vent pipes, xaste pipes, faucets, valves end water supply pipes, without first having filed with the Building Inspector, plans and epeoifioations which shall clearly show and indicate the entire work to be done, the number and aheraater of all fixtures, the size and loaetiona of ell drains, xeete, soil end vent pipes, traps and oleanouts, and whether oonneation 1s to be made with the sanitary sewer or with a cesspool and without having obtained a Plumbing Permit from the Building Inspector of the County of Hawaii. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation except employees of the younty of Hawaii Sewer Department to connect or to aid in, or to osuse s oonneation to be made, or to make use of the public sewer system of the County of Hawaii. An application shall be obtained from the Building Inapeator requesting the Sexer Department to make auoh connection as may be approved by the Building Inspector and a deposit to cover the costs of auoh oonneotiona shall he made by the applicant before the work may proceed. Application shall he signed by the axner or b~~ his duly authorized agent, upon a form to be 2lirnished by the Building Inspector end shall an ewer truthfully all questions therein captained. Section 8. Permits for Plumbing Construction. hho may obtain permits. No permit shell be issued to any parson, firm or corporation to do or osuse to be done any aonatruotion or work regulated by this chapter except +.n a master plumber who has a oerti£iaate of aompeteaoy as provided in Section 6. - 3 - ~~. N o.----------------•------ b'iie ~"In ^~ n t i ,~ ._. FEES FOR PERfdIT Section 9. No permits shall be issued to any person or persons, firm or corporation for doing plumbing work in the C ounty of Hawaii until the fees therefor have been paid to the Building Inspector or his duly authorized agents according to the following schedule: The fee for the installation of fizturea shall be: Fifty (50) cents for each fixture and one dollar {$1.00) for the inspection of each house sewer; provided that this section shall not apply to the repair leak in drains, vent pipes, waste pipes, faucets, valves or water supply pipes or to the removal of obstruction in pipes. FILING OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS Section 10. When a permit is issued, the application signed by the person or persons, firm or corporation, together with the plans and specifications, shall ba filed with the Building Inspector end shall thereafter remain in the custody of said Inspector. When it is desirable to make changes in the plumbing work From that shown on the plans and specifications, as filed, the person or persons, firm or corporation to whom the permit has been issued shall give notice of such changes, end if such changes ere found to ba in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, such changes shall be allowed, and the additional fee if any, collected before the changes may be made. SEIVER CONNECTION RE6~UIRED Section 11. In the construction, reconstruction or alteration of any building of any description, in which plumbing fixtures are to be placed, all plumbing work shall be connected with a public sewer, where such sewer is accessible, end where there is no sewer accessible, with a suitable properly constructed and approved cesspool or other means acceptable to the Board of Health. All buildings in which the plumbing has been done prior to the passage of this Ordinance, must conform to this Ordinance before being connected to the sewer, if in the discretion of the building Lzspector the plumbing is a menace to health or life. HOUSE SE1vER Section 12. The term "House Sewer" as used in this Ordinanae shall mean that part of the drain between the"cleenout" at or near the property lines, or s cesspool, and to five (5) feet of the building connected or to be connected with the sewer or cesspool or septic tank and its secondary disposal system. House sewers shell not be leas then four (4) inches in diameter, and shall be of cast iron pipes or salt glazed vitrified pipe, and shell be laid to a true grade, end et .least one foot underground, un- less the run is over solid rook or lava, in which case the Building Inspector Trey modify the depth et which the sewer shall be placed. Changes in directions shall be made by "Y" branches and 1~6, 1~8, or 116 bends. Salt glazed vitrified pipe will not be allowed under or within five feet of any building. If salt glazed vitrified pipe is used in the construction of any sewer, it shall have a fall of at least one-quarter of an in eh to the foot, the ~ointa shall be made of mortar, composed of equal parts of Portland or other good standard cement and clean acr9er sand, and said Joints shell ~u covered with cloth in laying. A disc entirely filling the house sewer pipe shell be kept in the pipe end drawn forward as each length is laid. When salt glazed vitrified pipe is used in tide or surface water, the same shall be concreted entirely around the -;.v erior of pipe to a thickness of at least four (4) inches. V~hen cast iron pipe is used all Joints shall be packed x~ith picked oakum and run with molten lead, be - 4 - caulked, and shall have a fall of not less than three-sixteenths of an inoh to the foot. In the construction of any house sewer no inteanedinte section of salt glazed vitrified pipe shall be used between sections of oast iron pipe. The free flow of air shall not be obstructed in any house aevm r when connected with any cesspool or sewer. HOUSE DRAINS Section 13. The term "House Drain" as herein used shall mean that part of the drain under the first floor of the building or structuro and extending five feat outside of the walls thereof. All house drains shall be of cast iron or galvanized wrought iron pipe not less than four inches in diameter and shall have a fall of no+, less than 316 of an inoh to the foot. In buildings or structures of over three stories in height, the class of oast iron pipe commercially known as Ext:a ?ieavy, or galvanized wrought iron pipe shall be used for the house drain, soil, waste and ~-eat pipes and the fittinRa shall be of the same class. All house drains shall be securely ironed to walls or in chases, or laid in trenches of uniform grade, or suspended to floor tirnbers or frames by strong iron hangers. In no case shall double hubs be allowed, and all hubs shall he laid opposite to the fall of the sewer. Gress cleanout connections, located in accessible places, shall he put in ell house drains at the foot- of each vertical riser and st every change of direction of the drain. SOIL PIPES Section 14. The term "soil pipe" as used in this Ordinsnao shall mean the vertical pipe to which one or more water closets or other fixtures are connected. All soil pipes shall 'be of oast iron or galvaniz- ed wrought iron pipe not less than four (4) inches in diameter, and if of ceat iron, in buildings of over three (3) stories shall be of extra heavy grade. All soil pipe shall be continued unobstructed and undiminished in size to a point not less than one (1) foot above the roof of the building. All soil pipes shall be run on as straight a line es possible and shall not terminate within ten (10) feet of any window or opening. If galvanized wrought iron pipe ie used, all the fittings must be recessed an3 the pipe reamed to full bore. In the construction of soil pip=. s, all oast iron Wipes and fittings shall be covered inside and outside with a aoattng of asphaltum. Ohas~a in direction of soil pipes shall be made by "Y" branches, and 1~6, 1~8, or 116 bends; and in no asses shall double hubs be used, oxcent for vent fittin„s where the fittings era to be inverted. Saritary "Ts" may be used in vertical runs. Pipes made from sheet metel of any kind shall not be used in the construction of soil or waste pipes. The use of galvanized steel or wrought iron pipe for drains under- ground is forbidden. The use of saddles or bands shall not be permitted in any house drains, house sewers, soil pipes, or vent pipes. No four by twa (4x2) or othsr heel outlet fittings shall be allowed to sot as a waste or vent pipe through the heel opening, except on vertioal lines. The use of cement of any description to repair splits or bred-s in cast iron pipes or fittings shall not be eilovred. Not more than the following number of water closets may be connected on the various sizes of soil pipes desi~ated belows - 5 - i~7. ~~. 1'v ;)..r_ .. .... ......._._.-. ilrr.r„ :.-. MAR....1....-?x5IL---°-° 20 Water Closets on 4-inch soil or branch pipe. 40 Water Olosets on 5-inch soil or branch pipe. 60 Water Closets on 6-inch soil or branch pipe. No soil or drain pipe ehnll be more than six (6) inches in diameter, and when a granter number than sixty (60) water closets are in one building, two (2) soil or drain pipes must be run to the main sewer in the atroet, and shall be continued up to and through the roof full size; and where vertical lines of soil pipes extend to water closets in the third floor, the same must extend full size through the roof. PASTE PIPLS Section 15. The term 'waste pipe" is herein used to mean any pipe leading from any fixture to a soil pipe or hour" drainrnd rooeiving the discharge from any fixture. All waste pipes except as herein provided shall be of iron. Branch waste pipes may be con atruoted of lead or iron; PROVIDED, however, that if lead is usod it shall be only as a branch to connect with an iron pipe and shall not exceed three (3) feet in length. The size of waste pipe shall vary according to the fixtures they are to serve, and in no event shall be less than the followings 1 to 20 water aloaeta 4 inches 21 to 40 water aloaeta 5 inches 41 to 60 water aloaeta 6 inches 1 only slop sink (wall outlet) 2 inches 1 to 1?, slop sinks 3 inches 13 to 24 slop sinks 4 inohea 1 to 4 floor drains 2 inohea 5 to 12 floor drains 3 inohea 1 to 6 shower drains 2 inches 7 to 15 shower drains 3 inohea 1 only bath tub 1~ inohea 2 to 6 bath tuba 2 inches 1 only sink 1~ inohea 2 to 6 sinks 2 inohea 7 to 15 sinks 3 inches 1 onl~r rash tray 1~ inches 2 to 6 wash trays 2 inches 7 to 15 wash trays 3 inohea 1 only wall urinal 1lg inohea 2 to 6 wall urinals 2 inches 1 to 3 stall urinals 2 inohea 4 to 9 stall urinals 3 inches 1 bar mate 12 inches 2 to 6 bar wastes 2 inohea 1 to 3 basins 1~ inches 4 to 9 basins 2 inches 10 to 15 basins 2~ inches 1 12"x12"x12" dirt oatoher 3 inohea 1 24"x24"x24" dirt oatoher 4 inohea All waste pipes from grease traps shall be in size not less than the outlets of same. Paste pi pea from refrigerators or other rooeptaoles in which provisions are kept, shall not connect directly with the drain, soil or vent pipe or discharge upon the ground beneath the building, but shall be trapped and the discharge there- from allowed to drip into an open fixturo in d wily use, or be conveyed - 6 - Q..}.Ai : I U. File ,'~'o.._... A'I. P n~ . -, ;, to the ground at least three (3) feet away from the building. No continuous wastes shall exceed sixteen (16) feet in length and the traps for same shall not be leas than one and one-half (1~-) inches.. Continuous wastes for urinals shall not be allowed. Section 16. All fixtures shall be separately and independently trapped as near the opening thereof as ie practioable. All traps shall have a water seal of not less than one and one-half (1~) inches in depth and shall be set true to water seal. The size of every trap shall be the same es the waste pipe it serves. No grease traps shell in any case be placed under a building or structure. Grease traps shall be used only for restaurants, hotels, tenements, boarding houses and other building, as approved by the inspector. Grease traps shell have ample capacity and the capacity end details of construction shall be subject to the approval of the Building Inspector and the Board of Health. No bell traps shall be used in any case. Anti-siphon traps shall be used only where the Building Inspector Pinds that it is impracticable to use any other. All traps in the ground or in concrete shall be of galvanized or cast iron pipe or of other approved pattern and shell be coated with asphaltum. All traps with internal partitions or any mechanism forming a seal not of an approved type, are strictly prohibited. VENTS Section 17. In every building or structure where there is e water closet, tr:ere shall be at least one four (4) inch cast iron vent pipe running from the house drain unobstructed and un- diminished in size to a point not less then one (1) foot above the roof of the building or structure or fire-wall, or if such building or structure has a fire-well within ten (10) feet of said vent, then not less than one (1) foot above said fire-wall. The terminal of all vents shall be at least ten (10) feet from any window or opening. All traps within any building or within five (5) feet of any building, shall be vented by special air pipes of iron, but in no case shall a vent pipe end or be located within s chimney or earthenware flue. No lead pipe shell be used for any vent except as a branch to connect with an iron pipe emd then only for a distanoe not to exoeed tw (2} feet. Vent pipes may converge into one pipe at any point not less then three (3) feet six (6) inches above the floor line of the building or structure. All vent pipes shell be extended above the roof of the building or structure in the same manner as the four (4) inch cast iron vent pipe herein referred to. All vent branches must be taken From the top of waste or croem of trap. The size of vent pipes for each fixture shall be not leas than the fallowing: - 7 - Basins 1~ inches Sinks 1~ inohee Baths 1 inohee Hash trays 1 inohee Urinals 1 inches Bar sinks 1- inches Bidet 1 inohee Sit.batha 1 inohee %tiater Closets 2 inches Slop sinks 2 inohee Dirt oatohere 2 inohee Floor drains with 2 in. trap 12 inohee Floor drains with 3 in. or 4 in, tmp 2 inches Drinking Foumains 14 inches All vent pi pas shall hsvs a grade towards the trap and shall not be carried inoro than twelve (12) feet out of a vertioal line to enter another pipe without increasing one size larger. Vrhen two water closets are on a four (4) inoh vent stack, suah stank may vent bath olosata, providing it is within twenty-four(24) inches of the traps of suah closets on the line of the pipe. The grouping of any other fixtures as allowed four water olosata, shall be permitted provided the twenty-four (24) inohee from the trap di~sneion, is not exoeeded and that the vents and wastes comply with the requirements of this Ordinanoe. V~henever fixtures are grouped the vents thexrofor shall not be lees than the following 1 to 12 water closets on one four inch vent 13 to 25 water closets on one five lnah vent 26 to 60 water olosata on one six inah vent And in no ease shall it be larger than six inahea in any one building. 1 1~" vent on one 14" pipe; 2 1" vents on one 1" pipe; 3 1'" vents on one 1 " pipe; 6 1~" -" or 5 11" ~" or 3 2" vents on " one ?_" pipe; " IO 1 " or 7 1 , t'~ or 4 2 ventn on " one 2~ pipe; " 13 1~ " or 10 l " or 6 2 vents on " one 3 pipe; 18 1~ " or 13 1~ " , or 8 2 vents o " n one 32 pipe; " 24 14 or 16 12 , or 12 2 vents on one 4 pipe; JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS Bastion 18. All ,joints of cast iron pipe shall be packed with pinked oakum and run with molten lea3 and shall be well caulked. Joints and aonneotiona in lead pipe shall be made with wiped ~ointa. Connections of lead with teat iron pipe stall be made with braes ferrule and wiped ~ointa. Caulked in oonneotions of lead and wrought . g . ~• No. File No.--_. ~~ ~ ; ~ i. D ~ i.e : ---- MAR . 1.....'354--°.--.. iron pipe shell be made with brass soldering nipple and wiped joints, screwed in. Connections of brass and wrought iron pipe shall be made with a brass screw oollar. WATER CLOSETS Section 19. The use of pan, hopper or plunger closets are pro- hibited. No water closet, s1oF sink or urinal shall be placed or maintained in any room in which ,here is not a window opening direct to the external atmosphere; provided, that in lieu thereof, such may be ventilated by means of mechanical ventilation through a shaft or air duct at least eight (S} inches in diameter or of equal area and as near the ceiling ea possible, and carried thence though the roof. Stop cocks shall be placed between the tank and the floor on ell supply pipes to water closet tanks. In factories, workshops, tenements and rooming houses there shell be provided one (1) water closet for each ten (10) persona, or fraction thereof, of each sex. Range cloaete are prohibited. Toilets shall be separate in all cases. All residences shell be provided with at least one water closet and one sink and one bathtub or shower. All water closets, earthen or iron, having traps above the floor, using lead connections, shell be fastened to the floor and made perfectly tight with red lead putty connections or by such other method as may be approved by the Building Inspector. VPhen iron connections to water closet traps ere used, they shell be cent or galvanized wrought iron pipe with cast brass flanges not leas than one-eighth of an inch thick and the flanges shell be either caulked or screwed on. Rubber gaskets shell not be used. URINALS Section 20. All urinals or groups of urinals shell be supplied with water. The floor and sides around ell urinals shall be covered with non-corosive and non-absorbing materiel. SAFE TASTES Section 21. No safe wastes shall be used in conjunction with urinals. Safe wastes from any fixtures shall not be connected directly or indirectly with any sewer, house drain, soil or waste pipe. CLEAN OUTS Section 22. Oenerel Provisions of all cleanoute. (e) All "C leanouta" shell be eo placed as to be accessible, end where a cement floor is laid, avid clean out shell be brought up flush with the floor. All "Cleanoute" shall be sealed to the satisfaction of the Building Inspector and shall not be used es floor drains or for purposes other than the cleaning of fixtures, house or aide sewers. - 9 - (b) Cleanouts for plumbing fixtures. "Cleanouts" shall be installed in all soil and waste pipes, and shall be so placed es to be accessible. (c) Cleanouts for house and side sewers. A "clean out" for house and side sewer shall be installed in each sewer line between the house and the side "sewer", and "cleenout" shall be used only for the purpose of cleaning house and side sewer, and shall be brought up to the surface of the ground to facilitate cleaning. RE?d~ELING OR REMOVALS Section 23. SVhenever a building is moved or remodeled, the plumbing work therein must conform in all respects to the provisions of this Ordinance, and where old fixtures are removed from any building and new fixtures substituted, or where old fixtures are changed, such work and the drainage and ventilation must conform to the provisions of this Ordinance. When a building is moved, the plumbing 1n the building may remain, if, after having been tested the same is found to be water-tight, and free from all defects. New sewers for old houses shall be deemed new work. SINAS ON WASH TRAYS Section 24. No sinks or wash trays of wood shall be constructed or used except in hotel or restaurant .kitchens or buildings used for industrial purposes, and, when so used shell be constructed of 2" think approved lumber and lined with some impervious materiel as directed by the Building Inspector. LAUNDRIES, POI MANUFACTORIES AND STABLES Section 25. All places used for the manufacture of poi for sale, for the washing of carriages and motor vehicle a, for the stabling of horses, mules and other animals and for the washing of clothes et laundries shall be provided with a floor of asphalt, cement, tale or other approved material and shall be connected with the public sewer, where such sewer is available, and where there is no sewer available, scone shall be connected with a suitable, properly constructed and approved cesspool or other means acceptable to the Board of Health. In ell such places, the open end of any drain leading to the sewer shall be covered with a metal screen at least one-fourth of an inch in thickness end so secured in place that it cannot easily be removed. The meshes of such screen shall not exceed one-fourth of an inch in diemter. All such places shall be furnished with an effioient dirt catcher. The discharge pipe ,from all wash floors, end in all poi factories shell be trap pad end vented. EXHAUST BLOW-OFE' AND DRIP PIPES Section 26. No steam exhaust, blow-off or drip pipe shall be connected to the public sewer, except upon the written approval of the Building Inspector, end in such case, there shall be interposed a blowdown sump between the building and public sewer. - 10 - GAIN, STOld~i, OR SURFACE R'ATIiR Seotion 27. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to allow rain, storm or surface water to enter directly or indiroctly into a house, aide or main severe r of a sewer system of the County of Hawaii. REMOVAL OF BUILDIld3S, STRUCTURES OR P'IATURES CONNECTED TO THE SEl"+ER SYSTEM Seotion 28. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to demolish or remove any buIlding or structure, or fixtures connected directly or indirectly with the public sewer system, without first notifying the Buil.dirg Inspector and obtaining approval therefor. It shall be unlawful for any property owner or his agent or any person to allow any opening in the sewer line caused by the rremoval of any building or structure or the disconnecting of fixtures to remain unsealed in such a manner as to allow rain, surface or storm water to enter a public sewer system of the County of Hawaii. FIFTURE Section 29. No oven end of any waste pipe or water closet shall be placed lass than two feet e?~ove high tide, as established by the datum used in Gove mment work. No wood work of any doseription shall be placed around any fixtures, except for capping or frame work. E%POSEll PLU7~fBING Section 30. All pipes and fittings shall he left exposed to view wherever practicable. ISSUANDE OF PEi7DiITS Seotion 31. The Building Inspector shall issue to any person, persons, firms, or corporation all necessary plumbing permits on an approved form, collecting therefor such fees as provided by this Ordinance. TESTING Seotion 32. Before back fllling or closing-in s house-sewer, house-drain, soil, waste and vent pips, inside and outside of buildings, the openings shall be stopped and the entire system filled with venter to the top of the highest vent pipe. The entire system shall be tested in the presence of the Building Inspector or his deputy and shall be water tight. No house-drain, house-sewer, soil, waste, or vent pipe shall be covered or concealed in any manner until after it hoe been examined and approved by the Building Inspector. After all fixtures are connected and trope filled with water there shall be a final inspection made by the Building Inspeater. In no case shall the Building Inspector accept or approve any installation of plumbing until the same has been made perfectly tight and made to conform with this Ordinance. - 11 - Fine ido-- - ------ ------------ ------- ----..,. Date:-MAR I_ ir~r " ---_-a0.-_.-..._ INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATE Seotion 33. It shall be the duty of the Building Inspec*.or or his assistant to inspeot all plumbing work done in the County of Hawaii, and if after proper final inspeotion of any plumbing work the same is found to be properly done and perf~otly tight as required by this Ordinance, he shall issue to the proper person, persons, firm or corporation, a Certificate setting forth the foot that the work has been inspected and the same found to have been done ncc:or ding to the requirements of this Ordinance. The Building Inspector shall have the right and authority to enter any building or go upon any promises anywhere in the County of Hawaii whero plumbing is being done, nt all reasonable hours, to ascertain if the provisions of this Ordinance have been or are being complied with. When work hne been tested or completed, the Building Inspector shall be notified in writing on forms furnished by his office, xhioh notice shall state the time when such work will be ready for inspection and the location thereof, and the work shall 6e left open and con- venient for two (2) working days after such notifications, or until inspected. The Building Inspector shall inspeot the work within two (2) working days after having been notified that such work is ready for inspeotion. No work shall be considered ready for inspeotion unless ell pipes are tested and securely strapped in pleas with iron hangers made of not less than one-quarter inch round galvanized iron hangers, placed not mare than five feet apart, or if near the ground, by good and substantial masonry piers bank of the hub and not more than five feet apart. No plumbing work shall be used until final inspeotion hsa been made or permission granted by the Building Inspector and a final Certificate of approval issued by him to the plumbing contractor or to the owner of the premises or his agent. The Building Inspector shall keep a complete record of all permits granted, registrations, inspections made and certificates of inspeotion issued, and shall make a report of the same each quarter to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Hawaii. DEFECTIVE 7~'Oih'i Seotion 34. If upon inspeotion, it shall appear that the work already completed or the material used therein does not in ell respects conform to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Building Inspector shall notify the person doing the work, and also the person holding the permit the refor, that said work and materials do not conform to this Ordinance and shall by such notice specify such changes in workmanship or material as will make the same conform in all respects to the provisions of this Ordinance, then and in that event all further plumbing work shall be immediately stopped until the provisions of this Ordinar_oe shall have been Hilly complied with. If any registered Plumber shall be twice convicted of violating this Ordinance by a refusal to comply with the provisions of this Seotion after being notified of defective work as in this aeotion provided, he shall upon a third notifiaetion and refusal thereof, his plumbing license shall re suspended for a period not exceeding one year. WATER SUPPLY PIPES A' Seotion 35. All water supply pipes galvanized wrought iron or steel, bre.ss, brass, popper or galvanized asst iron or - 12 - dD FITTINGS fora plumbing system shall ba copper or ca et iron, with. galvanized malleable iron fittings. L ..~~. No.---•---...---- ~ ~~ i e ra o..--- ~ ---- ------- ~,,, Dare......MAR 1 rsn No pipe fittings that have been used for other purposes shall be used for distributing water. Section 36. Relief valves. Wherever a check valve or pressure reducing valve is instal led on the cold water suppl line between the street main and the hot water storage tank and~r heater, there shall ba installed on the hot water distributing system a suitable pressure relief valve and suitable means shall be taken on the hot water system to prevent the heating end atornge of hot water heated to a higher temperature than boiling point et atmospheric pressure (212 degrees F.). All oil, gas, end electrical water heaters shell ba provided with an automatic relief valve. Section 37. Water service. The water pipe of any building shall be of sufficient size to permit a continuous ample flow of water on all floors at a given time. Section 36. Water supply to fixtures. A potable water supply distributing system shall not be connected to or with any water-closet tank, flush valve, combination or other faucet, or any other plumbing fixture or receptacle for waste or surplus water, which is connected directly or indirectly with any sewer, soil or waste of a plumbing system except (1) by discharging over a height not less then 3 times the inside diameter of the water inlet pipe or six (6) inches e~hioh- ever is the lesser above the level at which the fixture would over-flow on the floor; unless the supply pipe thereto be provided with a complete air break of the full area of the supply pipe and located at least six inches above the highest water containing part of the fixture, (2) provided that in lieu of a full area air inlet there may be a combination of check and air inlet so disposed and arranged in location and size that the air inlet shell be sufficient to supply full relief for any leakage that might occur past a defectively sealed check should the washer or other means of sealing ba completely destroyed. In any oase ell water service connection shall comply with the cross-connection regulation of the Board of Health. ADDITIONAL INSPECTIONS Section 39. If any additional inspection becomes necessary by reason of any non-compliance with the provisions of this Ordinanoe, or because the work is not ready for inspection at the time stipulated on the plumbing pennft or when the Building Inspector shall have been notified that it would be ready, a charge of three dollars shall be made for each such additional inspection. All fees for additional inspection shell be paid to the Building Inspector or hie duly authorized agents, who shall issue a receipt therefor, and no additional inspection shall be made until said fees are paid. PENALTIES Section 40. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of e misdemeanor ~d upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) in the discretion of the Court. Section 41. All ordinances, sections and parts of sections of Ordinances of the County of Hawaii, in conflict herewith, be end the same is hereby repealed. - 13 - Section 42. SEP&RASILITY. If any section, sentenoe, clause or phrase of this ordinance or its applioation to any persons or oiroum- etanoes is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining portions of this ordinance or the applioation of this ordinance to other persons or oircumstanoea shall not be affected. The Hoard of Sups rvisors hereby declares tlxat it would have passed this Ordinance and each seotioa, sentenoe, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalids Section 4S. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ox•dinanoe shall take effect upon its approvals Dated at Hilo, Hawaii, this day of ,~~" ~ A. D. 1960. Introduced bye ,~-~ ~ ~~ U L~ , M1 'cam °' E_ '~ ~' Supervisor, ~l~epresentative Diet riot ~~ a :;~_, i `. I ~~~•N Fibr 0._.-..-- T?gte : ---MAR ..1.....195II_.......»