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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 180-1919 - Regulating Business Of Plumbing, Establishing A Board Of Examiners, ETC. - 04_14_1919r ORD`NANCE NO. 180. AN ORDINANCE regulating the business of plumbing, establishingaboardofPlumbingExaminers, requiring examination andlicenseofallthoseengagedinsaidbusiness, and a bond for thefaithfulperfommanceofallplumbingandsanitaryordinancesandregul-tions, fixing the terms and condition thereof; regulatingthemodeofexaminationandlicensingofapplicants; fixing thefeestherefor; prohibiting those not regularly examined licensedendbondedfromengaginginthebusinessofplumbing, with certainexceptionsastohelpers, limiting the number of helpers toeachjob, and requiring that a licensed plumber shall have con- stan6 personal supervision of each plumbing job; providing that no plumbing work shall be completed and covered without submitting same to the proper City authorities for inspection, prohibiting the use of plumbing without such inspection and approval, fixing fees for license and for inspection; providing penalties for violations hereof, repealing all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, and declaring and emergency. BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS. SECTI JN 1.. No person shell, ,,,rithin the City of Lubbock,i'exas: de or permit to be done on premises _^tithing his control., any Plumbing work, whether water or sewer, unless such person doing such work shall have previously been regularly examined by the Board of Plumbing Examiners for the City of Lubbock, Texas, duly licensed thereby, and have executed and delivered to the City of Lul-lbock a bond in the penal sum of One 'Thousand dollars condition that such person, and his employees, shall faithfully obey and observe all the ordinances and regulations in force, or to be in force, during the life of said bond, touching the business of plumbing, and will not damage the property of the City, or private property, in the pursuance thereof, which shall be executed as surety by some surety company authorized to do business in this state; provided, thRt any plumber who has been regularly examined and licensed, as such, by any City within this State within a period of one year of his ap- plication to the -board of Plumbing Examiners for the City of Lubbock, Texas, and has regularly followed such occupation since said time, may be exempt from such examination; provided fur- ther; that plumbers helpers shell not be required to be examined, licensed or bonded, as above provided; and it is further provided that, not more than three helpers shall, at any one time, be engaged on any plumbing job, and riot then unless there shall be a licensed plumber, duly ponded, in constant person supervision @f the work. Section 2. The Board of Plumbing Examiners of the City of Lubbock, Texas, shall consist of the City Manager and the City Secretary, and said Board shill be entitled to five days notice of an application for examination and license before holding same. Section 3. A fee of Five Dollars shall accompany each request for examin,.tion and license, or license without examination which shall not be returned if the applicant fails to successful complete the same. All license shall be valid for one yepr from date, only. An applicant who has been licensed by the Board here created shall not be required to submit to examination thereafter, unless such license is revoked. Section 4. No plumbing work shall be completed and hid from view, or covered up, until the plumber in charge thereof shall have notified the said Board that such work is ready for inspection, tendered the inspection fee of O e Dollar and such work has been inspected and approved by the represen5ative of such -board; the said board shall have twenty four house, excluding Sundays and holidays, in -which to complete said inspection, and shall be assisted, if required by such inspector, by the applicant; no plumbing shall be used or con- nected without such inspection, nor after being condemned. rd. 180 - Pg.2. Section 5. Any person convicted of viol-ting any part of thisordinanceshallbepunishedby - fine of not less than twenty-fivenormorethanoneHundredDollars, and if the offender be a licensedplumbertheconvictionshalloperatetorevokethelicensepreviouslygrantedt him, and he shall be ineligible to examination or licenseasaplumberfora. period of six months thereafter. Section 6. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflictherewithareherebyrepealed. Section 7. The fact that there is now no ordinance properly regulat- ing the plumbing business, and that improper plumbing is a menane tothehealthoftheinhabitantsofthisCityandaninjurytothe system s of the +amity, creates an imperative public necessity that the rule requiring proposed ordinances to be presented at two several meet- ings be dispensed with, and this ordinance is passed by an unanimous vote of the meeting of its introduction, and it is so ordered. Passed and approved by an unanimous vote, this the 14th day of April, 1919. ATTEST: E.C. Priest, Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas, Approved: R.A. Sowder City Attorney. L.H. Simpson, Mayor Protem, City of Lubbock,Texas.