Ordinance 221•
ORDINANCE NO. 221
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY 0 MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
PRESCRIBING RULES AND RA-ULAT IONS AS TO' PLUMBING
WORK; THE INSTALLATION OP PLUMBING; THE BUILDING -
OR INSTALLING OF SEPTIC TANKS; PROVIDING 202 THE
GRANTING OF A PERMIT,PERMITTING PLUMING; PROVID-
ING FOR FEES POR SUCH PERMITS; PROVIDING FOR AN
EXAMINING BOARD Tn EXAMINE PARSONS As TO THEIR
Z.TALIFICATIONS AS PLUMBERS; FIXING THE ZUALIFICA-
TIONS OF PERaONS WHO MAY ENGAGE IN THE PLUMING
BUSINESS OR TRADE IN SAID CITY; PROVIDING'20R A
PLUMBING INSPECTOR FOR SAID CITY; MAKING PROVISIONS
WITH REFERENCE TO MERCHANT PLUMBERS AND PROVIDING
FOR A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OP THIS ORDINANCE.
SECTION 1.
MIMING PERMITS.
No person, as principal, agent, manager, or employee, shall
place or install or cause or permit to be placed or installed, any
plumbing including pipes, connections, fixtures, apparatus and all
other plumbing work of any kind whatsoever; or make, or cause or
permit to be made, any alterations, change in, addition to or re-
pair of any such plumbing in the City of Miami Beach, without first
obtaining a written permit for such plumbing work from the Plumbing
Inspector of the City of Miami Beach. Such permit shall be denomi-
nated a "Plumbing Permit" and shall contain a description of the
work to be done thereunder and a statement of the place, by street
and number or by description sufficient to locate the same, where
such work is to be done. Plumbing permits shall be granted upon
written applications therefor to the Plumbing Inspector. The Plumb-
ing insnector shall investigate such application, and applicants for
plumbing permits shall furnish proof that applications for the in-
troduction of a supply of water into any premises or for the exten-
sion of pine for the conveyance of such water has been made in writ-
ing on the contract form furnished by the Water Department of the
City of Miami beach; and shall furnish drawings, specifications, plans
and details of such coltemplated work, when required by the Plumbing
Inspector. If the Plumbing insnector, after investigation, is satis-
fied that the work desired can be done without violating any of the
proyisions of this oxdf.nance or pf any other ordinance or Isaw 4overn-
ing such 7iptk in the City of L:iami Beach;"1Lnd that the applicant
therefor is duly licensed to do plumbing in the City of Miami Beach,
he shall issue a plumbing permit to such applicant, upon payment of
the fees therefor. The issuance of a plumbirg permit shall not be
construed as an approval by the Plumbing Inspector of the drawings,
specificatioels, plans or details or such contemplated work insofar as
the same, or any portion thereof, may be in conflict with the provi-
sions of this ordinance or any other ordinance or law governing such
work in the City of Miami Beach.
The holder of a plumbing permit shall not do or perform, or
cause or permit to be done or performed, any work other than that de-
signated in such plumbing permit at the place mentioned therein; and
shall not do or perform, or cause or permit to be done or performed
any work designated in such plumbing permit at any place othar than
that designated therein.
In case any plumbing is desired in the construction, alteration,
or repair of any building or structure requiring building permit, no
plumbing permit shall be issued until after a building permit for such
building or structure shall have been previously issued. No plumbing
permit shall be issued for repairing leaks in drain, soil,waste or
vent pipe but should any trap, drain, soil pipe, waste or vent pipe
become so defective as to require removal or replacement with new
material, in whdle or in part, or should ary toilet, wash basin, laun-
dry tray, sink, slop ink, slop hopper or any other fixture be taken
up or reset, or be replaced -aith a new fixture, a plumbing permit
must first be procured therefor. No person, as principal, agent,
manager or employee, shall put in or cause or permit to be put in
any septic tank in the City of Miami Beach without having first ob-
tained from the Plumbing Inspector a plumbing permit therefor.
Such plumbing permit for a septic tank shall be issued as here-
inbefore provided, except that the applicant therefor will not be
required to have a license as required for other plumbing permits.
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SECTION 11
FEES 110:Z FLIT D3ING PERMITS
There shall be charged and collected by the City Clerk, on cer-
tification by the Plumbing Inspector, an inspection fee of fifty (50)
cents for each fixture in new and reconstructed plumbing work, before
the issuance of a permit, which said fee shall be placed to the credit
of the General 2und of the City of Uiami Beach.
SECTION III
PENAL COSTS
Any person, as priicipal, agent, manager, or employees, commenc-
ing or doing any plumbing work for which plumbing permit is required,
without first obtaining a plumbing permit therefor, shall pay double
the fee herein provided for a plumbing permit authorizing such work;
provided that a (ouble -Mall not be charged in cases of emer7ency
work necessary to be done in order to prevent material injury or dam-
age to property and provided that the issuance of a permit upon pay-
ment of such double fee shall not be a defense to a prosecution for
a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION IV
PERHIT aECODS
The 21umbing Inspector shall keep, in proper books for that
purpose, a true and correct account of all plumbing fees received,
the name or person paying the same, the date and amount of each pay-
ment; which said book shall be kept open for public inspection dur-
ing office hours and the Plumbing Inspector shall check over with
the City Clerk, at the end of each calendar week, the plumbing fees
record of such week.
SECT ION V
NO ?ICE TO PLILIBING INSPECTOR
All plumbing work d )ne shall be subject to inspection and. notice
shall be given to the plumbing inspector by the Person, firm or cor-
poration doing such pluibing work or having same done, as soon as the
work is ready for inspection. Such notices shall be given for
inspectionof both the rough and finished work. `lhe person, firm,
or corporation doing such plumbing work shall secure a certificate
from the Plumbing Inspector, showing the result of such inspection
and shall deliver the said certificate to the owner of the premises,
on which the same is done, or to the authorized representative of
such owner.
SECTION VI.
WORK UNCOVERED
All plumbing work shall be left uncovered and convenient for
examination until inspected and approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
Floors shall be left up in bath -rooms and elsewhere above the
plumbing, where there is less than twenty -inches of space between
the floor and joist and the ground, until the plumbing pipes and
other plumbing work shall have been examined, tested and approved
by the Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION VII
TIME FOR INSPECTION
Inspection of plumbing shall be made within forty-eight (48)
hours after notice that the same is ready for inspection shall have
been received by the Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION VIII.
TESTS
The Plumbing Inspector may apply the water test on all new
plumb ing v+o rk.
SECTION IX.
OCCUPANCY
Where water is introduced into any building a stop -cock must
be placed so that water may be shut off from the whole building
and yard hydrants, without closing the curb -cock.
No person shall occupy, or make use of any house, building or
other structure in which plumbing has been installed or constructed,
until after the Plumbing inspector shall have issued a final cer-
tificate and approval of the plumbing work therein, or in connec-
tion therewith.
SECTION X.
EXAMINATION.
No person, as principal, agent, manager or employee, shall
conduct, manage or carry on the trade, business or calling of a
master plumber, or work as a journeyman plumber, or do any plumbing
work of any kind or description in the Lity of Miami Beach, for
which a plumbing permit is required, without first having submitted
to a practical examination before and obtaining from the examining
board of plumbers of the City of Miami Beach a certificate of com-
petency, showing such person to have sufficient practical experience
and sufficient knowledge to do plumbing work. Any master plumber or
journeyman plumber, who fails to pass examination, will not be al-
lowed to appear before the board for further examination until the
expiration of a period of thirty days from the date of such exami-
nation.
SECTION XI.
FTA INING BOARD
'he Examining .Board of Plumbers of the City of Miami Beach
shall consist of the Sanitary Committeeman, two master plumbers and
two journeyman plumbers. The personnel of the Examining Board of
Plumbers of the City of Miami Beach shall be appointed by the Mayor,
which appointments shall be approved by the City Council and shall
serve during the pleasure of the Legislative Body of the City of
Miami Beach, and shall qualify by subscribing to the oath of office
required by the Charter of the City of Miami Beach.
Each member of the Exaaining Board, attending, shall receive
a fee of fifty cents for each applicant examined. Such fee to be
paid out of the funds of the City of Miami Beach. The City of Miami
poliget:
Beach shall provide the Examining board with the necessary forms,
books, blanks, tools and materials to properly conduct the examina-
tions.
SECTION XII
EXAMINATION FEES
The fee for examination by said Examining Board of Plumbers
shall be Ten (10) Dollars for each master plumber and vivo (5)
Dollars for each journeyman plumber, for the first examination,
payable in advance to the secretary of the said board and no fee
shall be charged for renewal of certificates and said fees collect-
ed by the Examining Board shall be paid to the City Clerk on the
first day of each calendar month.
SECTION XIII
MASTER PLUMBER
For the purpose of this ordinance, a master plumber shall
be deemed to be the person engaged in or carrying on the business
of plumbing or doing the plumbing work.
SECTION XIV
JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER
Yor the purpose of this ordinance, a journeyman plumber shall
be deemed to be any person who is employed to do plumbing work for
wages or salary, but who does not furnish any materials or supplies
in the execution or performance of the plimbing work.
SECTION XV
APPRENTICE
For the purpose of this ordinance, an apprentice shall be
deemed to be any person doing plumbing work under the direct super-
vision and in the presence of a certified master plumber or a cer-
tified journeyman plumber, and such apprentice is required to have
a permit from the said Examining board of Plumbers to do such plumb-
ing work.
SECTION XVI
CERTIFICATES
The Examining Board of Plumbers shall give an examination to
every applicant for a certificate to do plumbing work in the City
of Miami Beach within two weeks after the filing of the application
therefor and the payment of the fee incident thereto; and every
applicant passing such examination to the satisfaction of the Examining
Board shall receive from said board a certificate of competency as a
master plumber or a journeyman plumber, in accordance with his appli-
cation; and such certificate of competency shall authorize the holder
thereof to do plumbing work in the City of Miami Beach until the
Thirty-first day of October next succeeding the date thereof.
SECTION XVII.
CERTIFICATE OF RENEWALS.
All certificates issued by the Examining Board of Plumbers shall
expire on the last day of October of each year, unless sooner revoked.
Every master or journeyman plumber, holding a certificate of competency
issued by said Examining Board of Plumbers, may, during the month of
October of each year, make application for extension of such certificate
of competency for anadditional year and said Examining Board of Plumb-
ers, if satisfiedthat the holder of such certificate of competency is
competent to do plumbing work, shall grant an extension of such certi-
ficate of competency for an additional year without examination. No
plumber failing to make such application and to obtain such extended
certificate of competency, during said time, shall do any plumbing
work in the City of Miami Beach, alter the expiration of the certifi-
cate of competency then held, without taking the examination and paying
the full fee herein provided for persons originally desiring to do
plumbing work in the City of Miami Beach.
SECTION XVIII.
AGE LIMIT
No person shall receive a certificate of competency as a master
plumber who has not attained the age of twenty-one (21) and who has
not taken out the required.. occupational license in the City of Miami
Beach, Florida.
SECTION XIX.
REGISTRATION
The Plumbing Inspector shall prepare and keep a register,
showing the name and address of every person, firm or corporation,
together with the names of the members of such firm and the offi-
cers of such corporation andtheir addresses, carrying on the busi-
ness of a merchant plumber or a plumbing business in the City of
Miami Beach, showing the name and address of every master plumber,
every journeyman plumber, and every plumber's apprentice licensed
or permitted to do plumbing in the City of Miami Beach; and shall
keep said Register up to date by the endorsement of all changes there-
in and additions thereto.
SECTION XX.
SEWER CONNECTIONS
Every building or other structure, in or for which any drainage
or plumbing arrangements are constructed, shall first be inspected
and approved by the Plumbing Inspector before any such building or
structure shall be connected with an accepted city sewer or septic
tank; when said sewer is constructed along the street, avenue or alley
adjacent to the property upon which such building or structure is
situated or in close proximity thereto, then such building or struc-
ture shall have at least one four inch vent as providedfor in this
ordinance and all other fixtures in such building or structure shall.
be vented.
SECTION XXI.
SEPTIC TANKS
When any building or other structure, in or for which any drain-
age or plunbin arrangements are constructed, is not situated so as
to require connection to a city sewer, then such drainage or plumbing
arrangements shell be connected with a septic tank. Such septic tank
shall not be located less than five feet from any property line or
less than ten feet from any dwelling, except when it is impossible to
maintain these distances, then the Plumbing Inspector may issue a
permit for a septic tank at a less distance from property lines
and dwellings, provided the same shall not be detrimental to health
or unsanitary.
SECTION XXII.
SOIL AND WASTE PIPES
All soil, waste and vent to a point (2) two feet outside of
the foundation line shall be of tar coated cast iron, lead or brass,
provided that galvanized iron pipe and recessed drainage fittings
may be used with the consent and permission of the Plumbing Inspec-
tor.
Waste pipes from Eiefrigerators may be of galvanized iron pipe.
No soil, drain, waste or vent pipe shall be built into masonary
or concrete walls, suitable chases shall be provided for then.
SECTION XXIII.
VENTS
All vent pipes shall be extended up to and thru roof and shall
terminate at a point not less than (1) one foot above the highest
opening on the roof whea located not less than (10) ten feet from
such vent terminal.
Vent pipes which terminate on roof used for other purposes
than as a covering for a building shall be extended at least (7)
seven feet above the finished roof or walk.
No vent shall terminate less than (12) twelve feet from the
ground nor less than (10) ten feet from any opening of a building.
SECTION XXIV.
CAST IRON PIP
All materials used in any part of a plumbing system shall be
free from defects of any kind and shall be of the following quality
and weight.
Waste and soil pipe and fittings in any building not exceeding
(50) fifty feet in height above the curb shall be of "Standard"
weight and quality. In buildings in excess of (50) 'fifty feet in
height, all waste and soil pipe and fittiAgs up to a point (50)
fifty feet from roof shall be of Extra Heavy quality and weight.
In case of a building or other structure being built or
moved over an old sewer, such sewer shall be relaid with cast iron
pipe of the same size as the old sewer. All terra cotta sewer in
any building or other structure shall be replaced or repaired with
cast iron pipe.
SECTION XXV.
TRAPS
All traps shall be effectively vented with an air pipe of a
diameter not less than that of such trap, except in case of a trap
larger than two inches in diameter, in which case the air pipe shall
not be less than two inches in diameter, provided that a single pipe
may be used to vent two traps through the same fitting -When alch
fitting has effective means to prevent the drainage from One trap
entering the other trap and is made of one piece of metal without
loose or attached parts.
SECTION XXVI.
PROHIBITED VENTS
No brick, sheet metal, earthenware or chimney flue shall be
used as a sewer ventilator to ventilate any trap, drain, soil or
waste pipe.
SECTION XXVII.
CELLAR DRAINS AND SHOWERS
Cellar drains and. showers in basements and in yards, directly
connected with the soil or waste pipe, shall be trapped by a sand trap
of not less than 12"x 12"x 12" and constructed of concrete. The walls
and floor of every such trap shall be not less than three inches thick
and each trap shall have a cast iron frame and grate cover. The water
seal of such trap shall be constructed by inverting its waste pipe.
A water seal of less than four inches is prohibited and the minimum
size of the wastepipe shall be four inches where trap is not vented.
SECTION XXVIII
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Each fixture shall be separately trapped, end ventilated as
follows:
Minor fixtures shall be separately ventilated not more than
five (5) feet from crown of trap.
Major fixtures shall be separately ventilated not more than
three (3) feet in a horizontal and two (2) feet in a vertical direc-
tion from the outlet of a fixture.
An extension of six (6) feet shall be permitted from the fix-
ture side of laundry tray trap, all other traps shall be placed as
close as possible to the fixture.
The minimum
size trap
Water Closet
Slop sink integral trap
Soda fountain catch basin
Urinal trough and stall
Laundry tray
Kitchen sink
Bath tub
Lavatory
for each fixture shall be as follows:
Trap Branch Vent
4" 4" 2"
3" 3" 2"
2" 2" 2"
2" 2" 2"
14,-" le
1" 1101
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Maximum number of traps allowed to be served by any main
vent pipe. The number of traps permitted under the following
table shall be traps not less than two inches in diameter, and all
larger traps shall be figured as multiple traps in the following
equivalents:
One trap 4" diameter or over equal to five (5) traps.
One trap 3" diameter ecual to four (4) traps.
One trap 2" diameter equal to three (3) traps.
One trap 2" diameter equal to two (2 ) traps.
Each water closet trap equal to four (4) traps.
Each urinal trap equal to four (4) traps.
Each trap less than two (2") inches diameter equal to one
(1) trap.
Maximum number of traps (as foregoing equation)
inch main vent one (1) trap.
1i inch main vent three (3) traps.
2 inch main vent twenty four (24) traps.
2i inch main vent thirty (30) traps.
permitted on:
3 inch main vent sixty (60) traps.
3i inch main vent one hundred fifty (150) traps.
4 inch main vent two hundred (200) traps.
5 inch main vent three hundred fifty (350) traps.
6 inch main vent five hundred fifty (550) traps.
Where necessary to increase the size of a soil or vent staok,
the largest size shall be extended throughout, and if a main -vent
stack it shall be taken off the foot of the soil or waste stack and
if over forty (40) feet in length carried through the roof indepen-
dent of the main soil or waste stack, providing that waste vent
stack need not be increased throughout.
Maximum number of fixtures or their equivalent traps allowed
to discharge into a waste or soil pipe of specified size.
inch pipe 1- inch trap.
inch pipe i inch sink trap or three other minor
fixture traps not over 1 inches.
2 inch pipe twelve traps 1 inch or less or six 2
inch traps, provided that only one
urinal trap shall be permitted.
3 inch pipe sixty minor fixture traps.
Soil pipes or soil and waste combined.
3 inch pipe eight minor and two major fixture traps.
In the following table the maximum number of minor fixture
traps are to be figured at the ratio of four minor to one major
fixture trap.
4 inch pipe
5 inch pipe
6 inch pipe
7 inch pipe
8 inch pipe
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eighty (80) traps.
one hundred eighty (180) traps.
three hundred sixty(360) traps.
six hundred thirty 6130) traps.
One thousand fifty (1050) traps.
Continuous or wet vent system: wherever practicable, plumbing
shall be put in on the continuous or wet vent system as follows:
The revent shall be taken out of the waste pipe between the
stack and the fixture, and as many waste branches, the combined
area of which does not exceed the area of said_ revent, may be con-
nected under the same conditions governing the combined wastes and
vents, provided that in a sink or urinal waste the revent shall be
not less than three inches, but may be reduced to two inches after
rising above the sink or urinal, said revent shall then be connect-
ed with stack above all fixtures, or into a separate vent stack,
or be carried through the roof separately.
Each vent pipe shall be connected above the highest fixture
into the adjacent soil pipe if distant therefrom not more than
five feet.
No vent shall be extended through the roof smaller than two
inches.
SECTION XXIX.
PLUMBING DETAILS
The Plumbing Inspector, in approving plans or in accepting
work of any and all persons carrying on, conducting, assuming
control of, constructing or causing to be constructed any plumb-
ing or building or other structure drainage affecting the sanitary
condition of any building or other structure in the City of Miami
Beach, shall be governed by the following regulations, and it shall
be unlawful for any person to fail, neglect or refuse to comply
with the same or any part thereof, upon reasonable notice, in writ-
ing, from the Plumbing Inspector so to do.
(A). Toilets. No water closet shall be put into or upon any prop-
erty, building or other structure unless the same be so constructed
as to be flushed by a tank containing not less than four gallons of
water, on some approved flushing valve, Plunger closets, Philadel-
phia Hoppers, pen closets, front washout closets and other unsani-
tary closets shall not be installed in the City of Miami Beach.
Cell bowls shall be made to syphon.
(B). TOP FIXTURES.- A fixture that is a top fixture on a vertical
stack and not more than three feet from the inlet to the stack,
need not have its traps revented; provided it does not discharge
into the stack below the level of its seal, except water -closets
whose trap is in the bowl. All other traps shall be set true to
their water seals.
(C.) WASTE PIPES - Every soil or waste pipe under or inside of
any building or other structure
brass. All joints in cast iron
shall be of cast iron, lead or
waste pipes, whether inside or
outside of the building line of slch buildings or structures,
shall be made of pig lead and oakum and shall be thoroughly
caulked, No cement of any description shall be used in connec-
tion with any cast iron, lead, brass or galvanized iron pipe.
Galvanized wrought iron pipes and fittings, known as the Durham
System, shall not be used below the first floor of any building
or structure, or in the ground except in perpendicular waste lines.
All cast iron soil pipes inside of property lines must be laid by
a licensed plumber.
(D). ROUGH TEST - Before fixtures are placed in connection with
the plumbing of any building or structure, and before any portion
of the drainage system of any building or structure is covered or
concealed from view, the outlet from the soil pipe and all openings
therein below the top shall be hermetically sealed and the pipe shall
then be filled with water to the highest point in the system.
Cell pipes and fittings shown to be defective shall be removed and
replaced with sound pipes and fittings. Every part of the work
shall successfully stand such test and shall in all respects con-
form to the requirements of this ordinance.
(E). GALVANIZED VENTS. vent pipes shall be of galvanized
screw pipe or cast iron and all fittings of galvanized malleable
iron or cast iron.
(p). CLEAN OUTS. All vertical stacks, soil and waste pipes
shall be provided with a trap screw ferrule at the foot and all
other places where necessary. The diameter of trap screw ferrules
shall be not less than one inch of the diameter of the waste. All
changes of direction of soil or waste pipes shall be made with
full "Y" branches and on&oight bends, except when the wastsis ver-
tical. All cleanouts shall be extended to outer walls or some
point convenient of access, not closer than one foot to the wall.
When soil and waste pipes are below cement or wood floors, or in
places where the cleanouts are not accessible, the said cleanouts
shall be br,)ught up to and above the floor or ground. An arm of
two feet in any change of direction where one -eight b:end can be
used will be allowed.
(G). WIPED JOINTS - All connections in lead piping shall be
joined by wiped joints. Connections between soil pipes and lead
pipes shall be made with brass ferrules or brass solder nipples,
and such joints shall be wiped.
(H). WAST PIPE SIZES. - All waste pipes shall be of lead, cast
iron or galvanized wrought iron of the following sizes, to -wit:
for bath tubs, wash basins, and laundry trays not less than 1-i
inches; for sinks, slop hoppers and urinals, not less than two (2)
inches.
(I). TRAPS AND VENTS - All traps and vents shall be the same at
size as the wastes, except in sink, urinals and wash basins. Sinks
and urinals shall have 14 inch traps and vents, and wash basins
shall have one and one-quarter inch (lin) traps and vents, if not
more than one fixture is vented. The sizes of the pipes for wastes
and vents shall be as follows, to -wit: for two fixtures 1 inches,
except as hereinbefore provided for sinks and urinals; for more than
two and not exceeding eight fixtures, 2"; for more than eight and not
exceeding sixteen fixtures, ai; for more than sixteen and not more
than twenty-eight fixtures, 3"; and for every additional sixteen
fixtures an additional e.
(J). CROWN VENTS - Crown vent pipes from water closets and slop
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hoppers stiall De noZ less than two inches In iir;ernai ala -ever.
mer -e
More 6Auxi alle water 01099t .sanA1 •er is vented through the si
pipe the size of the pipe shall be as follows, to -wit: for more than
one and not exceeding four, 2 inches; for more than four and not ex-
ceeding eight, 21- inches; for more than eight and not exceeding four-
teen, 3 inches; for more than fourteen and not exceeding twenty-four,
4 inches; and for every additional ten closets or slop hoppers an
additional inch. zlvery vent pipe run at a horizontal turn shall grade
toward the fixture.
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(K) . VENT HEIGHTS - All vents shall rise perpendicularly or at
an angle of forty-five or sixty degrees in the nearest partition or
wall to four inches above the floor. r'ittings known as "Y" branches
shall be used where the vent is taken off the waste line below the
fixture.
(L) . PROHIBITED CONNECTIONS - No privy vault, cesspool, exhaust
from engine or blow -off from boiler shall be connected with the
drain of any building or other structure.
(M) . SODA FOUNTAIN CONNECTIONS - When waste pipe connections are
to be made to fixtures classified as follows: soda fountains, bars,
dentists fountains, cuspidors, lavatories in barber shops, which in
the opinion of the Plumbing Inspector cannot be practically con-
structed in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance, a
special permit may be issued by the Plumbing Inspector, on recommen-
dation of the riealth Officer that said work will not be unsanitary.
(N) . ALTERATIONS - Upon the removal or alteration of any building
or structure, or the making of any addition thereto, if new plumbing
fixtures are placed therein, either in the original or altered or
added portion thereof, such new fixtures shall be properly connected
with the plumping in the original parts of the building or structure;
and if the fixtures are to be reset, either in the old or any new
part of such building or structure, then both the original aid addi-
tional fixtures, and all altered plumbing- shall be made to comply
in all respects with the provisions of this ordinance.
(0). REFRIGERATOR ;'ONN CTIONS The wast, pii)e ±rcii any e r ge Gator
or other receptacle in or which provisions are stored shall not be
connected with a drain, soil pipe or other waste pipe, but shall be
arranged to waste into an open sink or tray in open sight. This sink
or tray may be connected with the drainage system, which shall have
a water connection so that the trap may be supplied with water. Said
sink or tray shall be properly trapped and vented. The waste pipe
for such refrigerator or other receptacle shall not be less than l="
pipe, which shall ran fron an open sink or tray to the refrigerator
and extend through the roof. . efrigerator traps shall be used.
(P). SAPi WASTES - No safe waste pipe from any fixture shall con-
nect with any waste pipe or sewer, but such safe waste pipe shall
discharge into a water supplied sink or discharge outside of a
building.
LATRINES AND RANG; CLOSETS - Latrines and range closets
(Q) .
shall not be installed in any school, factory, apartment
public building within the City of Miami Beach.
(R) . INDIRECT CONNECTIONS- No plumbing fixture, unless
expressly provided and except a sink in a soda fountain,
set up with an indirect connection to the drain or sewer
building or structure. The waste from ever: such sink shall be
house or
o therwise
shall be
of any
so constructed as to be
easily removed
and cleaned, if not direct-
ly connected, may or may not be vented but shall be trapped and
shall be so constructed as to discharge over a properly trapped
fixture located as near as practicable to the fixture drained.
Such trapped fixture shall not be located in an inaccessible or un-
ventilated cellar.
(3). CLOSIT BENDS - Cast iron closet bends shall have cast iron
or brass floor flange.
SECTION XXX.
SEPTIC TANK 0 R SEWER VENT.
ive b uildinsp or other structure connected to a sewer or
septic tank shall hL... least on 4 inch vent pipe carried above
the roof.
Every building or structure used for human habitation
shall have installed therein at least one toilet and one sink
properly trapped and connected with sewer or septic tank.
SECTION XXXI.
PRIVY VAULTS PROHIBITED
No privy vault shall be dug or constructed in the City of
Mani .each, except that the Plumbing Inspector may permit such
vaults to be dug or constructed for temporary use, and shall specify
in the permit therefor the length of time during which the same may
be used, and it shall be unlawful for any person to maintain such
vault a longer time than specified in such permit.
SECTION XXXII.
WA2AR SUPPLY A 2LOOR DRAIN
Every floor drain and sand trap connected directly to any build-
ing or other structure drain shall have a water connection so that
the trap may be supplied with water.
SECTION XXXIII.
SUPERVISION OF PLUMBING INSECTOR
The Plumbing inspector of the City of Miami Beach shall have
supervision over the installation, alteration and use of waste pipes
and water fixtures, in all buildings and other structures in the Uity
of Miami Beach.
SECT IONXXIV.
SERVICE PIPES
.d;very service pipe from a city main tap to any building or
other structure shall be not less than three-fourths of an inch
in internal diameter. The City Water Department in every instance
reserves the right to, at its own option, designate and prescribe
the size of a service connection, either upon original installation
of a new connection or upon any renewal or replacement of any old
connection and in any case where a size of service other than that
applied for by the tenant, or previously existing, is designated
and prescribed by the City, the tenant shall be bound thereby. No
one but an authorized employee of the Water Department is allowed
to touch any water main, service pipe, meter, stop -cock, curb -cock,
or other fixture belonging to or under the control of the city. Any
plumber finding repairs or changes necessary will shut off the water
at the stop -cock at the building. In case it is necessary to shut
off the water at the curb he will notify the Water Department.
In all premises where steam boilers or hot watr tanks are
supplied with water from the watier works, the owner must see that
a suitable safety valve, vacuum, air or other valve or device, is
placed, to prevent damage from collapse under heavy pressure or from
explosion if water is shut off. In all cases where pipes are con-
nected direct with boilers, feed water heaters, or other fixtures
where pressure is or can be generated, there must be a check -valve
placed in the pipe between such fixture and the meter. Where this
is not done, the consumer will be held responsible for any damage
to meter or other fixture on the service pipe and for cost of labor
in repair of same.
SECTION XXXV.
GALVANIZED IRON
All water pipes and all water fittings inside of buildings and
other structures silall be of galvanized iron, and all other water
pipes and all other water fittings shall be of galvanized iron.
SECTIONXXVI.
SIZE OF WATER PIPES.
The size of water pipe shall refer to the nominal internal
diameter and shall vary with the number of fixtures supplied thereby,
as follows: for nipples and tubing only, not less than three -eights
of an inch (3/8"); toilet and lavatory supplies for not more than
three fixtures, not less than one-half inch (i"); for not more than
twenty-four fixtures, not less than three-quarter inch ("); for not
more than forty fixtures, not less than one inch; for not more than
eighty fixtures, not less than one and one-quarter inchs (li"); for
not more than one hundred and fifty fixtures, not less than one and
one-half inches; for not more than three hundred fixtures, two inches
and for every additional one hundred and fifty fixtures add one-half
an inch additional.
SECTION XXXVII.
DENTIST'S CUSPIDORS.
Every dentist's cuspidor shall be constructed so as to waste
throe::h a drug trap and the trap shall have one and one-half inch
vent pipe and shall be placed within two feet of the vent pipe.
On the inlet side of the trap anextension of one inch waste pipe
shall be run to a length not exceeding ten feet, reckoning from
the trap seal to the end of the one inch extension.
SECTION XXXVI I I .
GARAGE SAND TRAP
every sand trap in a garage shall be of concrete. The walls
of such trap shall be not less than three inches thick, and each
said trap shall contain a partition not less than two inches thick,
which shall be as high as the outlet thereof. The outlet dial]. be
constructed with one 4 inch quarter bend, turned down and terminat-
ing within 4 inches of the bottom of said trap. If the outlet is
of four inch pipe it need not be vented. The size of the and trap
shall be not less than eighteen inches by thirty-six inches and shall
be not less than eighteen inches in depth. The sand -trap shall be
provided with a cover which shall rest on an iron angle frame. Such
frame shall extend at least one inch on the floor beyond the sand
trap wall. No boiled blow -off shall connect with any sand trap but
shall have a separate water tight sump, which shall connect with the
sand trap on the building or structure side of the partition of such
sand trap.
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SECTION XXXIX.
PROHIBITED FITTINGS
Double hubs, straight crosses, straight "T's" or short tune
shall not be used on soil or waste pipes. Bands, saddles and
sleeves shall not be used in any case. Double sanitary "T" branches
and single "T's" are prohibited, except in perpendicular stacks. No
fittings shall be used betweenthe bath trap and perpendicular waste
lines, "L's" or quarter bends will not be allowed on bottom of waste
stacks. Two one -eight bends shall be used.
SECTION XL.
TRAP SEAL
Every trap shall have a water seal with an internal diameter
of not less than that of the trap.
SECTION XII.
P IPE ARRANGEMENT
All pipes shall be as straight and direct as possible, and shall
be so arranged as to be readily inspected. hangers shall be placed
every seven feet apart on cast iron pipe aid every ten feet apart on
galvanized iron pipe.
SECTION XIII.
DRAINAGE EXCAVATIONS
All excavations required for the installation of a building or
other structure drainage system, or any part thereof, within the wal]s
of such building or structure, shall be open trench work; and all such
trenches shall be kept open until the pipes therein shall have been
inspected.
SECTION XLIII.
DE2EC 1IVE WORK
Avery person, firm or corporation doing any plumbing work shall
immediately remove and replace any and all defective material and any
and all defective work, when required so to do by the Plunbirg Inspec-
tor. Every soil pipe, drain pipe vent, trap, water closet, urinal,
sink or other fixture set up or any fittings laid, used or constructed
otherwise than in accordance with this ordinance, or any other ordinance
or law regulating such work in the City of Miami Beach, or which may
become bad, defective, dangerous or in any way unfit for service,
shall, Apon notice either verbal or in writing from the Plumbing Insle c -
tor, be removed or repaired in accordance with such notice or other
instructions from the Plumbing Inspector and shall be made to comply
with the provisions of this ordinance and of every other ordinance and
law regulating such work in the City of Miami Beach, within the time
fixed in such notice or within any extension thereof granted by the
Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION XLIV.
CONLRUNATION
Where a building or structure has been inspected and the plumbing
work condemned by the Plumbing Inspector as being in an unsanitary
condition, notice to that effect shall be given in writing by the
Plumbing Inspector to the omer, agent or occupant of such building ar
structure, and in such notice shall designate the repairs or improve-
ments required to be made. If the owner, agent or occupant objects
to such condemnation or to the making of such repairs or improvements,
he may, within three days after such notice, appeal to the City Council
from the decision of the Plumbing Inspector. Such appeal shall be
taken by filing with the City Clerk, and a copy with the Plumbing In-
spector, a notice, in writing, stating the objections to such condem-
nations or to such repairs or improvements and a statement that he
appeals to the City Council.
If an appeal is so taken by such owner, agent, or occupant, the
same shall come on for hearing at the next regular meeting af the City
Council, but may be continued to other meetings of the said City Coun-
cil, provided notice of the time to which such hearing is continued
shall be given to such owner, agent or occupant; and the City Council
may hear evidence and argument touching the issue and may affirm, re-
verse or modify the order of the Plumbing Inspector and the decision
of the City Council on such an appeal shall be final and conclusive.
When plumbing, - in any building - has been condemned as unsani-
tary and no appeal taken as herein provided, or, if taken and the order
of the Plumbing Inspector is affirmed or modified, the owner, agent or
occupant shall immediately make such repairs and improvements as may
be required by the City Council and, unless the same shall be commenced
within three days after notice of the decision of said. City Council, it
shall be the duty of the Plumbing Inspector to post at some conspicuous
place on such building or structure one or more notices, which shall
be substantially in the following form:
"WARNING":
This building (or structure) has been condemned
as unsanitary and unfit for human habitation or
occupancy and it is unlawful for any:person
to live in or use the same. By order of the
City Council."
—ITITEUTEFInspector"
Such notice Inay be in typewriting and shall remain on such build-
ing or structure until the repairs or improvements shall have been
made and the same shall then be removed by the Plumbing Inspector,
or by such person as may be authorized by such official so to do;
and it shall be unlawful for any person to remove or deface same.
After building or structure has been placarded on account of unfit
plumbing and until the repairs or improvements required shall have
been made, it shall be unlawful for any person to live in or occupy
such building or structure, whether for business or residence pur-
poses, or to rent, let or hire the same or any part thereof, ar to
collect, receive or pay any rent therefor, whether as agent, owner,
tenant, or otherwise.
SECTION XLV.
DISPLAY SIGN
Jlvery person, firm or corporation doing business as a merchant
plumber in the City of Miami Beach shall, at the place of such busi-
ness, display a business sign showing the full registered name of
such person, firm or corporation; and it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation not so registered to do business in the
City of Miami Beach, or to advertise to do any plumbing work therein.
SECTION XLVI.
PENALTIES
Every person, as principal, agent, manager or employee, violat-
ing, failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Two
Hundred ($200.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not
more than ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment; and every day
during any portion of which any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be violated shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punished
as herein provided.
SECTION XLVII.
ELECTION OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR.
The Plumbing Inspector is to be appointed by the Mayor and ap-
proved by the City Council; he must be a resident of Miami Beach and
also furnish a one thousand. Dollar (1,000.00) bond.
SECTION XLVIII.
Sections XII to XXI inclusive, relative examination and regis-
tration of Plumbers may be wai7ed or remain in full force by resolu-
tion of the City Couneil of the City of Miami Beach.
SECTION XLIX.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed..
SECTION L.
Any person, the member of any firm or any officers of any cor-
poration who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance
shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than. Two hundred ($200.00)
Dollars, or imrrisoned in the City Jail not more than ninety days, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of June, A. D., 1925.
ATTEST:
resident of ity ouncil
APPROVED this 3AL.4( day of June, A. D., 125.
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STATE OF FLORIDA)
COUNTY OF DADE )
I, O. W. TOMLINSON, City Clerk in and for
the City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that
Ordinance No. 221 entitled "An Ordinance of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, prescribing rules and regulations as to Plumb-
ing Work; the installation of Plumbing; the Building or In-
stalling of Septic Tanks; providing for the granting of a Per-
mit permitting Plumbing; providing for fees for such permits;
providing for an Examining Board to Examine Persons as to their
qualifications as Plumbers; fixing the qualificatials of persons
who may engage in the Plumbing Business or Trade in said. City;
providing for a Plumbing Inspector for said. City; making pro-
visions with reference to Merchant Plumbers and Providing for
a Penalty for the violation of this Ordinance," having been
duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of
Miami Beach, has been posted by me in three conspicuous places
in the Oity of Miami Beach, one of which was at the door of
the City Hall in said. City on the 15th day of June, 1925, and
that said Ordinance remained posted for a period of at least
thirty days in accordance with the requirements of the City
Charter of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the official seal of the Oity of Miami Beach
on this the 15th day of July, A. D., 1925.
(.jerkity
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