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Home My WebLink About1086 08-25-1992 ORDINANCE No. 1086 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 1991 EDITION OF THE UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE & APPENDICES WITH AMENDMENTS; REPEALING THE EXISTING PLUMBING CODE AND ALL AMENDMENTS THERETO; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE AND EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary to provide minimum standards to regulate the design, construction, materials, use and occupancy location and maintenance of buildings and structures, and certain equipment thereof, within the city to protect and promote the public safety, health and welfare. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS: I. ADOPT ON CF ST NDARD OODE The 1991 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code & appendices, as adopted by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical officials, with amendments hereinafter made, is hereby adopted. one copy of said Uniform Plumbing Code and w"O ments have been filed in the office of the City Secretary for permanent record and inspection. Ii. AMININTS TO TAE DNIFC M PiLMM QDS A. Subsection (a) "Permit Fees" of Chapter 1-1/2 "Fees" of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: A. Permit Fees. 1. The fee for each permit shall be as set forth in the City of Euless Schedule of Fees, Chapter 1-1/2. There shall be a re-inspection fee as specified in the City of Elaless schedule of fees, Chapter 1-1/2, where it is necessary for the plumbing inspector to re-inspect any phase of a plumbing installation. 2. Registration of Plumbing Contractors The master plumber shall be required to maintain a registration with the City before performing any type of plumbing work. Each contractor shall furnish the plumbing department with a written notice of contractor's permanent business and residential address, telephone numbers, proof of current state license, and if actively engaged in the plumbing contracting business a list of journeyman plumbers and other plumbing helpers employed by contractor. 3. RWistration Fees For a business registration a fee shall be paid in addition to the other provisions provided herein. The fee for initially establishing registration data, and the annual renewal fee for continuing the validity of registration data shall be as set forth in Chapter 1-1/2 of this code. 4. Registration Renewal The registration may be renewed for the ensuing calendar year by filing a new registration and the payment of a renewal fee as set forth herein. Failure to renew registration within 30 days of expiration of same shall require a new registration and pay the usual fee for new registration. No refund will be paid in the event of the revocation or surrender of any such registration. B. Table A located in Chapter 2 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended by the deletion therefrom of the following items: Asbestos cement non-pressure sewer pipe Asbestos cement non-pressure small diameter sewer pipe Asbestos cement pressure pipe Asbestos cement pressure pipe for water and other liquids Asbestos cement pressure pipe for water service and yard piping (installation) Chlorinated polyvinyl Chloride (cpvc) plastic hot water distribution systems Extra strength and standard strength clay pipe and perforated clay pipe Fittings for joining polyethylene pipe for water service and yard piping Non-metallic building and house sewers Homogenous bitumized fiber drain and sewer pipe to Polybutylene (pb) hot and cold water distribution systems Polybutylene (pb) hot and cold water distribution systems using insert fittings (installation) Polybutylene (pb) cold water building supply and yard piping (installation) Poly (Vinyl Chloride) (PVC) Natural Gas Yard Piping (installation) C. Paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 401 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (2) A.B.S. and P.V.C. D.W.V. piping installations shall be limited to dwellings and apartment houses where combustible construction is allowed. D. Section 401 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a new subsection (c) to read as follows: (c) Building Sewers may be schedule 40 minimum P.V.C. with solvent welded approved fittings. E. Subsection (a) of Section 711 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) All food establishments having a food disposal or discharge of more than fifty gallons per minute shall discharge in a "Figure 1" oil and grease interceptor. Establishments with a discharge of fifty gallons per minute or less shall discharge into at least a 100 lb. size grease trap. An approved type grease interceptor or grease trap dying with the ORDINANCE NO. 1086 , PAGE 2 OF _6 provisions of this section shall be installed in the waste line leading from sinks, drains, and other fixtures or equipment in establishments such as restaurants, cafes, lunch counters, cafeterias, bars and clubs, hotels, hospital, sanitarium, factory or school kitchens, or other establishments where grease may be introduced into the drainage or sewage system in quantities that can effect line stoppage or hinder sewage treatment or private sewage disposal. A grease trap is not required for individual dwelling units or for any private living quarters. OIL & GFMM IN1ERCEPAR --� F-10 1LOw IN 1 I r 1 1 S4r FIOM OItT� r RELIEF' ' fANITART VENT ENT 1 {- s WAT CLUall 4' OUT 1� Figure 1 ORDINANCE NO. 1086, PAGE 3 OF 6 CAPE - Shall be composed of one (1) part Portland cement and five (5) parts aggregate. - Reinforcement bars deformed number 4 bars on 18" centers. lANHCEMS - Cast iron frame with 20 inch cover. VENTS - 4" sanitary vent may be reduced to 2" if interceptor is connected to a properly vented sewer or waste line within 251. - Relief vents shall be 2" between its and to atmosphere above roof, and inside building. CAPACL7Y - The figures below are approximates. 100 cubic feet holding 750 gallons retention capacity CLEAN OUT- Should be two-way located as near as possible to the interceptor on out-flow line above seal. F. Subsection (m) of Section 1003 of the uniform Plumbing Cade is hereby amended to read as follows: (m) Lawn Sprinkling Systems shall be equipped with listed atmospheric vacuum breakers installed on the discharge side of each of the last shutoff valves. Vacuum breakers may be omitted provided the entire Sprinkler system is isolated from the potable water supply by means of an approved factory-assembled and tested back flow preventer. G. Section 1003 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a new subsection (u) hereafter read as follows: (u) Fire sprinkler Systems - Shall be protected by two (2) approved backflow, prevention devices regardless of the date of installation of the fire sprinkler system. H. section 1004 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) Water pipe and fittings shall be of brass, copper, cast iron, galvanized malleable iron, galvanized wrought iron, galvanized steel, or other approved materials. All materials used in the water supply system, except valves and similar devices shall be of a like material, except where otherwise approved by the Administrative Authority. (b) Cast iron fittings up to and including two (2) inches (50.8 mm) in size, when used in connection with potable water piping shall be galvanized. (c) All malleable iron water fittings shall be galvanized. ORDINANCE No. 1086 , PAGE 4 OF 6 (d) Piping and tubing which has previously been used for any purpose other than for potable water systems shall not be used. I. Section 1010 of the Uniform Plumbing code is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) The maximum discharge flaw rates for plumbing fixture fittings shall be in accordance with applicable standards listed in Chapter 421 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, as same may be from time to time amended. (b) Flush volumes for low consLunption and water saver water closets and urinals shall be in accordance with applicable standards listed in Chapter 421 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, as same may be from time to time amended. J. Subsection (a) of Section 1212 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) All pipe used for the installation, extension, alteration, or repair of any gas piping shall be standard weight wrought iron or steel (galvanized or black), yellow brass (containing not more than seventy-five (75) percent copper), or internally tinned or equivalently treated copper of iron pipe size. Approved PE pipe may be used in exterior buried piping systems. M. CI DINO ffi 14ME M Ordinance 890 and all ordinances amendatory thereto are expressly superseded by the terms of this ordinance. Plumbing permits heretofore issued under existing ordinances shall be valid for the time for which they were issued under the existing plumbing code; however, upon expiration of such date, the same shall become void. All pending litigation and existing violations, both civil and criminal whether pending in courts or not, under the plumbing code and amendments therefore superseded by this ordinance, shall not be affected by this ordinance. IV. SEVERN31LXIY CLAUSE That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the city Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of the ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. GWINANCE NO. 1086 , PAGE 5 OF 6 V. PENMIW FUR VICHATICli Any person, firm or corporation violating the terms and provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in section 1-6 of this Code of Ordinances, and each day that such violation continues shall be a separate offense; this penalty shall be cumulative of all other remedies. Any such violation shall be deemed a violation of a provision governing public health and sanitation under said Section 1-6 of this Code. VI. EFFELVIVE DATE This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage as provided by the Euless City Charter and the laws of the State of Texas. PRESENTED AND PASSED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING at a regular meeting of the Euless City Council on the 25th day of August 1992, by a vote of 7 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions. APPfROVED:/ Harold D. Samuels, Mayor A Susan Cri , City Secretary i - �� i Z fJ j City Attorney ORDINANCE NO. 1086 PAGE 6 OF 6