ORDINANCE 78A611
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ORDINANCE NO. 78
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SNGUNDO, CAL-
IFORNIA, RRGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION
OF PLUKBING AND HOUSE DRAINAGE AND THE INSTALLATION OF
GAS PIPING AND FITTING WITHIN SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR
THE ISSUING OF PERMITS THEREFOR, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE
NUMBER $6 07 SAID CITY AND ALL ORDINANCES AM$NDING SAID
ORDINANCE NUS 26.
The Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. PERMIT. It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to do or cause to be done,
or to construct or cause to be constructed, any plumbing
or house drainage affecting the sanitary condition of any
house or building in the City of El Segundo, unless a per-
mit has first been obtained from the Plumbing Inspector
of the City of E1 Segundo so to do. ,
SECTION 8. APPLICATION FOR PMIT. Any person, r,
firm or corporation desiring a permit to do any plumbing,
or to construct amF house drainage affecting the sanitary ..
condition of any house or building in the City of E1 Segundo
✓� shall make application in writing to the Plumbing Inspector
for a permit so to do; such application shall set forth the
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number of outlets and fixtures to be installed, and the ;<
amount and character of the work to be done, the time with- -,
in which such work will be completed, and such other infor-
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mation, plans and specifications as said Plumbing In-
spector may require; and if it appears therefrom that
the work proposed to be done is to be done in accord -
anoe with the rules and regulations contained in this
Ordinance governing the construction of such work, and
that the Building Inspector has issued, for the build-
ing where such work is proposed to be done, a permit
(when such permit is required by the Ordinances of
said City), then, and not otherwise, the Plumbing In-
speotor must issue a permit for such work setting forth
the right of the applicant to do the work mentioned in
his application and limiting the time within which the
same is to be completed, upon the payment of the
following fees, to-wit:
1 fee of fifty ( b0) cents for such permit;
and in addition thereto, twenty -five (86) cents for
each outlet, not exceeding twenty -five outlets, pro-
posed to be roughed in or provided for in the work
to be done under said permit, and ten (10) cents
additional for each outlet in excess of twenty -five
outlets. No permit will be deemed to be necessary
in the case of any repair defined as follows:
The stopping of leaks in drains, soil, waste,
or vent pipee; provided, however, should any trap,
drain pipe, soil, waste or vent pipe be or become
defective and it be necessary to remove and replace
the same with new material in any part or parts, the
same shall be considered as new work, and a permit
must be procured, as above required, and inspection
made, as hereinafter provided.
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SECTION 3. INSPECTION. All work done
under permit shall be subject to inspection and notice
must be given in writing to the Plumbing Inspector by
the person, firm or corporation doing said work, or
causing the same to be done, immediately after said
work is ready for inspection. Up to the time of the
inspection all work must be uncovered and convenient
for the Inspector's examination, and every facility
must be given the Inspector to make a thorough exam-
ination; that is, if any pipes are enclosed, or
covered with flooring, siding, lath, dirt or other
material, or covered in any way whatsoever so as to
tend to obstruct a thorough inspection of the drain-
age system, said obstruction must be removed, upon
notice so to do from the Plumbing Inspector before he
shall be required to inspect the work. In inspecting
such work the Inspector shall apply the water test to
all Plumbing above the lowest termination of the oast
iron soil pipe; all the necessary tools, labor and
assistance for such test shall be furnished by the
person, firm or corporation having control of, or in
charge of such work. When upon examination by the
Inspector, if it appears that any such work is de-
fective, either in the construction or material, the
same shall be removed or alters& to conform to the
regulations set forth in this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION.
When it appears to the satisfaction of the Plumbing
Inspector that any work mentioned in this Ordinance
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" has been constructed according to, and meets the re-
quirements of all provisions of this Ordinance, and
that all the fees for inspection thereof have been
paid, the Plumbing Inspector shall cause to be issued
to the person, firm or corporation constructing such
work a certificate of final inspection, which oertif-
icate shall recite that such work as the permit was
issued for has been constructed according to the
Ordinances of said pity, and that said work is in a
sanitary condition. The Plumbing Inspector shall not
issue such certificate of final inspection unless the
requirements of this Ordinance have been complied with.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm
or corporation to use or occupy or inhabit, or to let
or lease for the purpose of occupancy or inhabitation
by human beings, any building hereafter constructed in
which any plumbing or house drainage work has been
� oonstructed or installed that affects the sanitary
condition of such building, unless such plumbing or
house drainage work has been constructed or installed
according to the terms of this Ordinance, and a cer-
tifioate of final inspection issued, as herein provided.
SECTION 5. CERTIFICATE OF FINAL INSPECTION.
The rules and regulations set forth in this Ordinance
are hereby adopted as the standard for the construction
and installation of plumbing and house drainage work
affecting the sanitary condition of all buildings in
the City of E1 Segundo, and all such work must be con -
struoted or installed in accordance therewith before a
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certificate of final inspection will be granted by
said Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION 6. KIND OF MATERIAL FOR DRAM
Every soil pipe or waste pipe under or inside of
any building shall be of cast iron, lead or brans*
All joints in cast iron pipe, whether inside of the
building line or otherwise, shall be made with
oakum and molten lead and thoroughly caulked. When
cast iron, lead or brass pipe is used for soil or
waste, no grade lighter than standard shall be used.
All changes in direction shall be made as required
in Section 7 of this ordinance and all fittings need
in the several angles shall be standard drainage
fittings; ordinary malleable or cast iron fittings
are prohibited and all fittings used in such work
must be of the same internal diameter as the pipe
line upon which it is used.
SECTION 7. CLEA OUTS. Every vertical
stack of soil pipe or waste pipe shall be provided
with a brass olesnout plug at the foot or lower
terminal of the stack, or with a combination iron
body fitting with a brass plug, the same to be in-
stalled either in horizontal lines where saay,of.aoaess
and not concealed or in any angle where the inspeo-
tor shall deem it necessary. Cleanout plugs shall
be of the same diameter as waste or drain lines
they serve. All oleanouts shall be accessible and
when the same are situated within one foot of the
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sewer, cesspool or septic tank. All angles or branch
connections in outside drains must be governed by
Section 7 of this Ordinance as hereinabove set forth.
Outside drains shall not be covered or concealed in
any way until they have been inspected and approved by
the Plumbing Inspector. It shall be unlawful for arw
person, firm or corporation to connect any pipe on
private property with any pipe in the street connected
with the public sewer of said city, or to construct
any sewer, or oonneot with any private sewer, or con-
neot any plumbing or house drain with any sewer drain,
cesspool or septic tank without first obtaining a
permit so to do from the Plumbing Inspector.
SECTION 9. TRAPS. Every water closet, sink,
slop hopper, bath tub, urinal, wash tray or set of not
to exceed four wash trays, lavatory or set of not to
exceed four lavatories, and every other vessel connected
directly or indirectly to the street sewer, cesspool or
septic tank, must be separately, independently and
effectively trapped. Every fixture shall be separately
trapped, and no trap shall drain more than one fixture,
except as herein provided. The trap must be placed as
near the fixture as possible and in no case further
than two feet therefrom.
J All hotels, boarding houses having six or
more boarders, restaurants, meat markets and bakeries
shall have in the sink waste line and in the slop hopper
waste line a grease trap made of non - absorbent material,
which shall be placed in the open or at such place as
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the Plumbing Inspector may direct, where it can be
cleaned at any time.
SECTION 10. PROHIBITED FIXTURES. All
plunger water closets, Philadelphia hopper closets,
front wash out closets, or any other closet where
the supply to the bowl or container is direct from
the street service, are prohibited from installation
or use in all instances, except as provided for in
Section E6 of this Ordinance. No wooden wash tray
or trays, sink or sinks, shall be maintained, used
or constructed inside of any building or porch. All
wash trays and sinks.maintained, used or constructed
in any building or porch shall be of non- absorbent
material.
SECTION 11. VENTS. Every trap shall
be effectively vented with an air pipe of diameter
not lose 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 such
fitting has effective means to prevent the drainage
from one trap entering the other trap and is made of
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one piece of metal without loose or attached parts.
All separate vent pipes within a radius
of twenty feet may oonverge into one pipe, the size
of.which shall be governed by the provisions of Sea-
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shall be extended upto and through the roof and no vent
pipe shall be allowed to open leas than ten feet from
a window or opening in the building in which it is
located, or within ten (10) feet from any window or
opening in any adjoining house or building, unless it
extends at least one foot above such opening. Any
horizontal vent pipes above the water line of arW
fixture vented by it shall not exceed twenty feet in
length and shall have a fall of not lose than one -
eighth inch per foot toward the fixture or fixtures
it serves.
SECTION 1E. PREV$NTINd WASTE WATER FROM
ENTERING VENTS. In order to prevent waste water
from entering vent pipes, every branch or branch
fitting for a vent pipe shall, when leaving a hori-
zontal or vertical line of waste pipe be taken from
a "Y" branch lying in the direction from which the
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waste water flows in such waste pipe, thus forming
an angle of forty -five degrees with the waste pipe,
and shall have a rise of not lose than 45 degrees;
or may leave such horizontal waste pipe at right
angles, provided that such vent pipe shall have a
rise of at least forty -five degrsee, thus permitting
the use of a "T ". No vent pipe shall intersect any
other vent pipe unless such vent pipe shall have a
vertical rise of at least six inches above the top
of the fixture vented by it. Where vent pipes are
exposed, "T'8" or "Y's" or crosses must be placed
so that vertical waste pipes can be cleaned through
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such "Y's", "T's" or orosses.
SECTION 13. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RE
WATER CLOSETS. In every building or structure where
water closet or other fixture is installed or used or
an outlet left for any such water closet or other
fixture, so that the vertical stack or line of pipe
is carried to the first floor level, this vertical
stack or line of pipe shall be carried undiminished
in size up to the roof as governed in Section 11 of
this Ordinance.
When two or more buildings or structures
are connected with the house drain or house sewer,
the drain system in each and every ouch building or
structure shall conform to the rules and regulations
prescribed by this Ordinance; provided, however, that
when a water closet is installed or used or an outlet
left for a yard closet exclusively, and there is a
vent pipe of no less than two inches in diameter
through the roof of the building on said lot, where
such closet is provided, the vent from this water
closet may be two inches in diameter.
SECTION 14. SIZE OF VVITS ON SMALL FIZTUR'SS.
The vent pipe of every small fixture shall be the same
size as the trap used for said fixture, provided,, that
if more than one trap shall be vented by the same pipe,
the size of such pipe shall be as follows:
For more than one, and not exceeding two
fixtures, not less than a one and one -half inch vent
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pipe; for more than two, and not exceeding eight
fixtures, not less than a two -inch vent pipe; for
more than eight, and not exceeding sixteen fixtures,
not less than a two and one- half*inoh vent pipe; for
more than sixteen, and not exceeding twenty -eight fix-
tures, not less than a three -inch vent pipe.
SEOTION 15. SIZE OP VENTS ON TOILETS, SLOP
HOPPERS AND SLOP SINKS. The vent from any water
closet, slop hopper or slop sink shall not be smaller
than two inches internal diameter, and where more than
one such fixture is vented through the same pipe its
internal diameter shall be as follows:
For more than one, and not exceeding four
closets, or slop hoppers or slop sinks, not lose than
a two -inch vent pipe; if more than four, and not ex-
ceeding eight such fixtures, not less than a two and
one -half inch vent pipe; for more than eight, and not
exceeding fourteen such fixtures, not less than a
three -inoh vent pipe; for more than fourteen such
fixtures, not less than a four -inch vent pipe; All
vent pipes and fittings therefor must be either cast
iron or standard galvanised iron. Half union or union
coupling of any description shall not be used, main-
tained or allowed in vent or waste pipes, where the
work is covered or oanosaled, and when exposed they
shall only be used on the house or structure side of
the trap.
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SECTION 16. SIZES OF VENTS ON BATTERIES OF
URINALS. The vents from all batteries of urinals shall
not be smaller than two inches for each such battery of
three urinals or lose; two and one-half inches for
batteries of more than three and not to exceed eight
urinals; three inches for batteries of more than eight
and not to exceed sixteen urinals; and four inches for
batteries of more than sixteen urinals.
Minh, SECTION 174. SIZE OF BASTE PIPE. All waste
( pipe shall be oast iron, brass or lead, not lose than
standard weight, and of the following sizes:
For each bath tub, laundry tray, urinal, wash
basin, slop sink or slop hopper where the outlet is two
inches or smaller, or for any other small fixture, not
less than two inches internal diameter; and if outlet
on any fixture is larger than two inches, the waste pipe
shall not be smaller than three inches internal diameter;
.,.kK1 for each water closet not lose than four inches in
diameter; oast iron, when used as a waste pipe for the
discharge of one or more kitchen sinks shall not be
smaller than two inches internal diameter (trap to fix-
ture excepted), and not more than six small fixtures
shall waste through a two inch waste pipe; provided,
however, that not more than four sinks, urinals or slop
hoppers shall waste through one 2 -inoh sink waste pipe.
SECTION 18. PIPE WEIGHTS. Oast iron soil
pipe, either waste or vent, shall not be used in any
plumbing work that is of less weight per length of five
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WWI., feet than is shown in the following table for the
respective sizes of pipe, to -wit:
Two inch pipe . . . . . . . . 17 1/2 lbs.
Three inch pipe . . . . . . . 22 1/2 lbs.
Pour inch pipe . . . . . . . 32 1/2 lbs.
Five inch pipe . . . . . . . 42 1/2 lbs.
Six inch pipe . . . . . . . . 52 1/2 lbs.
Eight inch pipe . . . . . . . 90 lbs.
Ten inch pipe . . . . . . . .125 lbs.
.,. Twelve inch pipe . . . . . 150 lbs.
All oast iron soil fittings or cast iron or
galvanized iron vent fittings shall be of the weight
commonly ]mown as standard.
SECTION 19. MWWTIVE PIPE AND FITTINGS•
Gas fitters' cement or other compound shall not be used
in repairing defective fittings or pipes; any fitting
or pipe will be considered defective and unreliable,
•.� when upon examination by the Inspector Gay fracture or
split is found, and any such fitting orlfittinge or
pipe shall be removed immediately upon notice so to do.
SECTION 20. TEST. Fixtures connected with
the plumbing of any house or building, or any portion
of the plumbing or drainage system that is covered or
concealed from view, and the outlet of soil pipe and
every opening into it below the top, shall be hermetic -
ally sealed by the person, firm or sorporation doing
the work, and the system shall then be filled with
-- water to the highest point thereof. Every leak so dis-
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closed must be repairs&, and every defective pipe or
fitting of any kind mast be replaced with sound material*
SECTION 21. CONNECTIONS BBT'w= LEAD, BRASS
AND IRON. Every connection between lead piping shall
be made by a wiped joint. Every connection between soil
pipe and lead pipe shall be made with brass ferrules or
brass solder nipples, and its joining shall be wiped.
Bolted on copper bit, cup or flush soldered joint@ are
prohibited in all oases.
SECTION 229 SAND TRAP. Every carriage wash,
area or oellar drain shall be trapped by a sand trap of
not less than twelve by twelve by twelve inches inside
dimension, and constructed of brick and cement, or vit-
rified stone pipe not less than twelve inches in diameter
and one and one -half feet in length, with cement bottom;
the water seal of such trap shall be constructed by
inverting its waste pipe,. Such trap need not to vented*
A water seal of less than four inches is prohibited, and
the minimum size of waste pipe shall be two inches,
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where trap is not vented.
SECTION 23. SATE WASTE. No safe waste pipe
from any fixture shall connect with any waste pipe or
\\`\ sewer, but such safe waste pipe shall discharge into a
water- supplied sink or discharge outside of building.
SECTION 24. REFRIGERATOR CONNECTIONS. The
waste pipe from any refrigerator, or other receptacle
in which provisions are stored, shall not be connected
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with a drain, soil pipe or other waste pipe unless
such waste pipe is provide& with a trap suitably
vented and in every case there shall be an open water -
supplied sink between such trap and such refrigerator,
or a discharge for same outside of building or struc-
ture independent of the plumbing system of the building
or structure.
SECTION 25. FLUBS AND RAIN WATER LEADER.
No brick, sheet metal earthenware or ohinney flue shall
be used as a sewer ventilator or be used to ventilate
any trap, drain, soil or waste pipe. No rain water
leader or other conduit for rain water shall be connect-
ad with any sewer, soil or waste pipe, except by per-
mission first obtained from the Plumbing Inspector•
SECTION 26• WATER SUPPLY TO TOILETS AND
URINAL. No water closet shall be installed or used on
any promisee or in any house or building, unless it be
flushed with water contained in a tank holding not Mess
than four gallons of water and supplied by a supply pipe
of not less than one -half inch diameter; provided, how-
ever, that a flushometer -valve may be used, which would,
in the opinion of the Plumbing Inspector, conform to
the requirements of this Ordinance. when the water
anpply of any building is not sufficient for the proper
flushing of all water closets and urinals in such build-
ing, the Plumbing Inspector may order the erection of a
tank system for supplying water to such closets and
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Where the soil pipe is brought through the
floor for a toilet waste it shall be provided with a
cast iron or brass floor flange and shall be caulked
onto the pipe with lead and oakum.
SECTION 2T. TOP FIXTURE. A fixture known
as a top fixture on a vertical pipe line which is
located not more than two feet from the inlet to said
pipe line, need not have its trap revented; provided,
it does not discharge into the pipe line more than one
j inch below the level of the seal or vent pipe. All
traps shall be set true to their water seals; bell
traps are prohibited in all oases.
SECTION 28. REPLACING kXTURBS. When any
water closet, sink, bath tub, basin or other fixture
maintained in any house, porch or building is removed
and replaced with another such fixture, or other
fixture, such new fixture shall have its trap vented.
SECTION 29. B1OWOFF OR ZMAUST FROM ENGINE.
It shall be unlawful for arty person, firm or oorpor-
ation to cause, suffer, allow or permit the exhaust
from any engine, or the blowoff from any boiler to
be connected with a house drain or sewer.
SECTION 30. PRIVY VAULT. It shall be un-
lawful for any person, firm or corporation to maintain
or use, or permit or cause to be maintained or used,
-- a privy vault or cesspool on any premises in the City
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-- of 31 Segundo for a longer period than three months
after a public sewer exists and is ready for use in any
street, or alley on which the property abuts; provided,
however, that all premises using septic tanks within
said city and fronting or abutting on such streets or
alleys in which a sewer exists, shall have said septic
tanks connected with said sewer, within a period of
three months after the same is ready for use, so that
the effluent therefrom shall be disoharged into said
sewer.
SECTION 31. SODA FOUNTAINSO BAR _FIXTURffi,
DENTIST FIXTMMO, eta. When waste pipe connection
are to be made to fixtures classified as follows:
soda fountains, saloons or bar fixtures and their
several appurtenancss,,,dentists' fountain, cuspidor,
lavatories in barber shops, which in the opinion of
the Plumbing Inspector cannot be practically constructed
in conformity ;with the provisions of this Ordinance,
a special permit may be issued by the Plumbing.Inspec-
tor if in his judgment the conditions require it*
SECTION 32. PLACING OF NEW FIXTURES. Upon
the renewal or alteration of any building, or upon the
mating of arty repairs or additions thereto, if ark► new
plumbing fixture is placed in such building, either in
the original or in the altered, repaired or added part
thereof, every such new fixture must be properly can-
noted with and attached to the waste pipes in the
-. original parts of such building, and if any fixtures
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outside surface of an outside wall of any building
the same must be extended through said outside wall.
All cleanout plugs shall be of brass. Where soil or
waste pipe intersects or is branched into another
waste pipe line whether it is perpendicular to a hor-
izontal pipe line or both are lying in a horizontal
position, the point of intersection shall be at an
angle of 45 0 , thus forming a IV branch. Combination
"2's" and one - eighth bends are permissible for these
angles, but "T's" or sanitary "T's" are prohibited
except in vertical staoks.
SECTION 8. SEWER PIPE. Every drain pipe
outside of any building and rani:
property line, cesspool or septic
first grade, vitrified iron stone
iron, and where a water closet is
roughed in, the internal diameter
drain shall not be lase than four
ag as far as the
tank, shall be of
pipe, or of cast
installed or
of such house
inches; stoneware
piping shall not be placed within one •foot of the
exterior wall of any building or within three inches
of the surface of the ground at azW part of its
course. Each joint between sections of vitrified
piping must be completely and uniformly filled with
a cement composed of equal portions of Portland
cement and clean sharp sand, and every joint must
be thoroughly cleaned from the inside as as not to
form any obstruction. Every outside drain must be
water tight, and have a fall of not less than one-
quarter of an inch to the foot toward the street
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