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§ 45. Act declared a remedial statute .- This act is hereby declared to be a remedial statute, and is to be construed liberally, to secure the bene- ficial interests and purposes thereof. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court, or any
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rights acquired, or liability incurred, nor any cause or causes of action ac- crued or existing, under any act repealed hereby ; nor to repeal, limit or modify the powers and duties of the health department of the city of New York except in respect to plumbing, drainage, light and ventilation of buildings in said city. Nothing in this title contained shall be construed to repeal chapter four hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hun- dred and eighty-five, entitled " An act to regulate the height of dwelling- houses in the city of New York," nor as authorizing the erection of any dwelling-house, or of any house used or intended to be used as a dwelling for more than one family, to a height greater than is authorized by said last-mentioned act, so long as said act shall remain in full force and effect.
§ 46. This act shall take effect immediately.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK.
THE REGISTRATION OF PLUMBERS,
AND THE LAW AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE OF ALL BUILDINGS HEREAFTER ERECTED.
CHAPTER 275.
AN ACT to create a department of buildings in the city of New York and to amend chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred . and eighty-two, entitled " An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," in so far as the same relates to the fire and building depart- ments of said city, and by adding a new section thereto, creating a bureau to be known as " the bureau of fire alarm, telegraph and electrical appliances."
Approved by the Governor April 9, 1892. Passed, three-fifths being present.
SECTION 5. Application of certain terms .- Whenever in any act appli- cable to the city of New York and relating to the subject matter of this act, the words " fire department," " bureau of inspection of buildings," " super- intendent of buildings," "inspector of buildings," "board of health," or " health department," shall occur, the same shall be taken to mean the de- partment of buildings and superintendent of buildings herein authorized. .
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CHAPTER 450, LAWS OF 1881.
AN ACT to secure the registration of plumbers and the supervision of plumbing and drainage, in the cities of New York and Brooklyn.
Passed June 4, 1881.
The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :
SECTION 1. On or before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, every master or journeyman plumber carrying on his trade in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, shall, under such rules and regula- tions as the respective Boards of Health of the Health Departments of said cities shall respectively prescribe, register his name and address at the Health Department of the said city ; and after the said date it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in the said cities unless his name and address be registered as above provided.
SEC. 2. A list of the registered plumbers of the City of New York shall be published in the City Record at least once in each year.
SEC. 3. The drainage and plumbing of all buildings, both public and private, hereafter erected in the city of New York, or in the City of Brook- lyn, shall be executed in accordance with plans previously approved in writ- ing by the Board of Health of the said Health Departments of said cities respectively. Suitable drawings and descriptions of the said plumbing and drainage shall in each case be submitted and placed on file in the Health Department. The said Boards of Health are also authorized to receive and place on file drawings and descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of buildings erected prior to the passage of this act in their respective cities.
SEC. 4. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York shall add six thousand dollars to the apportionment of the Health Department for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and shall insert the same in the tax levy, to provide for carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as it relates to the City of New York.
SEC. 5. Any court of record in said cities respectively, or any judge or justice thereof, shall have power at any time after the service of notice of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and upon the affidavit of one of the Commissioners of Health of the said cities, to restrain by injunc- tion order the further progress of any violation named in this act, or of any work upon or about the building or premises upon which the said violation exists ; and no undertaking shall be required as a condition to the granting or issuing of such injunction, or by reason thereof.
SEC. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR THE REGISTRATION OF PLUMBERS, AND RELATING TO PLANS AND SPECI- FICATIONS FOR PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE, ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF HEALTHI OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 450, LAWS OF 1881.
Adopted April 3, 1883; Amended October 27, 1855; Amended August 1S, 1887; Amended November 6, 1890.
1 .- The Registration of Plumbers.
RULE 1 .- Every plumber engaged in business in the City of New York shall appear in person at the Health Department, No. 301 Mott street, and register his name and address, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 450, Laws of 1881, upon the forms prescribed by the Health Department.
RULE 2 .- It shall be the duty of every plumber to give immediate notice of any change in residence or place of business, for the correction of the Register.
RULE 3. The list of registered plumbers shall be published in January of each year.
II .- Of Plumbing.
The law requires that the plumbing and drainage of all buildings, public and private, shall be executed in accordance with plans and specifications previously approved in writing by the Board of Health ; and that suitable drawings and descriptions of the said plumbing and drainage shall, in each case, be submitted and placed on file in the Health Department.
No modification of approved plans, or of the work described therein, will be permitted unless the same has been previously allowed by the Board of Health on the written application of owner or architect.
Plans are approved upon the condition that such approval expires by its own limitation six months from date of permit unless work under it is then in progress. If it is not begun under approved plans within that time, such plans must again be presented to the Board for reconsideration.
Drawings and descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of buildings, erected prior to the passage of the Act of 1881, may be placed on file in the- Health Department.
Blank specifications for plumbing and drainage will be furnished to architects and others, on application at this office.
As the law requires that the plumbing and drainage be executed accord- ing to a plan approved by the Board of Health, no part of the work shall be covered or concealed in any way until after it has been examined by an In- spector of the Board of Health ; and notice must be sent to the Board when the work is sufficiently advanced for such inspection.
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III .- General Plan of Drainage and Plumbing approved by the Board of Health.
The following plan of construction has been approved by the Board of Health. When the work is completed, and before it is covered from view, the Board must be notified, that it may send an Inspector.
1. In no case will the general water-closet accommodation of a tenement or lodging house be allowed in the cellar or basement.
2. All interior water-closet compartments in tenement-houses shall be ventilated into air shafts of not less than three square feet in area. In other buildings, water-closets should not be placed in an unventilated compart- ment. In each case water-closet compartments should open to the outer air, or be ventilated by means of a shaft or air duct.
3. All materials must be of good quality and free from defects ; the work must be executed in a thorough and workmanlike manner.
4. Subsoil drains must be provided when necessary. When used they must be effectively trapped and means provided to maintain a seal.
5. All iron pipes must be sound, free from holes or cracks, and of the grade known in commerce as extra heavy. The following weights per lineal foot will be accepted as standards :
2 inches, 53 pounds per lineal foot.
5 6 7 8 10 12 3 4 13 66
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66 66 66
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20 66 27 333 45 54 17
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6. All fittings used in connection with iron pipe shall correspond with it in weight and quality. No tar-coated cast-iron pipe shall be used.
7. The arrangement of all drainage and vent-pipe must be as direct as possible.
8. Where there is a sewer in the street, every house or building must be separately and independently connected with it. When possible such con- nection must be made directly in front of the house.
9. Where the ground is made or filled in, the house sewer, by which is meant the portion of the drain extending from the public sewer to the front wall, must be of extra heavy iron pipe of such diameter as the Board of Health may approve. Such pipes must be laid with the joints properly caulked with lead.
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10. Where the soil consists of a natural bed of loam, sand or rock, the house sewer may be of hard, salt-glazed and cylindrical earthenware pipe, laid on a smooth bottom, free from all projections of rock and with the soil well rammed to prevent any settling of the pipe. Each section must be wetted before applying the cement, and the space between each hub and the small end of the next section must be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement. Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the drain to become an obstruction. No tempered-up cement shall be used. A straight edge must be used, and the different sec- tions must be laid in perfect line on the bottom and sides.
11. The house-sewer must, where possible, be given an even descent to the street sewer, of not less than one-quarter of an inch to the foot.
12. Where there is no sewer in the street, and it is necessary to construct a private sewer to connect with a sewer in an adjacent street or avenue, it must be laid outside of the curb, under the roadway of the street on which the houses front, and not through the yards or under the houses.
13. The house-drain must be of extra heavy iron pipe, with a fall of at least one-quarter inch to the foot.
14. Where water-closets discharge into it, the house drain must be at least four inches in diameter.
15. It must be securely held in place against the cellar wall or properly suspended from the cellar ceiling. It can be laid under the cellar floor only when a permit from the Board of Health has been obtained.
16. It must be laid in a straight line, if possible. All changes in direc- tion must be made with curved pipes, and all connections with Y-branch pipes, and one-sixteenth or one-eighth bends.
17. Any house drain or house sewer put in and covered without due notice to the Health Department must be uncovered for inspection at the direction of the Inspector. Old sewers or house drains can be used for new houses only when found by an Inspector of this Department to conform in all respects to the regulations governing new sewers and drains.
18. A running or half-S trap must be placed on the house drain at an accessible point near the front of the house. This trap must be furnished with a hand-hole for convenience in cleaning.
19. Hand-holes for cleaning on the house drain or its branches, or their traps or on the house-drain trap, must be provided with proper ferrules with screw covers made gas tight.
20. There must be an inlet pipe for fresh air to enter the drain just inside the trap, of at least four inches in diameter (or of the same diameter as the house drain if that is less than four inches) leading to the outer air and opening at some place and in the manner shown on the approved plans, not less than fifteen feet from the nearest window. No cold air box for a . furnace shall be so placed that it can possibly draw air from this inlet pipe.
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21. No brick, sheet-metal, earthenware, or chimney flue shall be used as a sewer ventilator, nor to ventilate any trap, drain, soil or waste pipe.
22. Every vertical soil, waste and vent pipe must be of extra heavy iron pipe. Where soil or waste pipes receive the discharge of fixtures on two or more floors, they must extend at least two feet above the highest part of the roof coping or light shaft louvres. All soil, waste and vent pipes ex- tended above the roof, must be of full calibre unless the diameter is less than four inches, in which case they must be enlarged to four inches, from a point just below the roof.
No caps or cowls shall be affixed to the top of such pipes, but in tene- ment houses a strong wire basket shall be provided and securely fastened thereto in every case to cover them.
23. Soil, waste and vent pipes in an extension must be extended above the roof of the main building, when otherwise they would open within thirty feet of the windows of the main house or the adjoining house.
24. Branch soil and waste pipes must have a fall of not less than one- quarter of an inch per foot to the pipes into which they discharge.
Horizontal soil and waste pipes are prohibited.
25. Offsets in soil, waste or vent pipes, will not be permitted where they can be avoided, nor in any case unless suitable provision is made to prevent accumulation therein of rust or other obstructions.
26. The least diameter of soil pipe permitted is four inches. A vertical waste pipe into which a line of kitchen sinks discharges must be at least three inches in diameter if receiving the waste of sinks on five or more floors. All branch waste pipes from sinks shall be at least two inches in diameter.
27. There shall be no traps on main vertical soil or waste pipes.
28. The drain, soil, waste and vent pipes, and the traps must, if practi- cable, be exposed to view for ready inspection at all times, and for con- venience in repairing. When necessarily placed within partitions or in recesses of walls, soil, waste and vent pipes should, if practicable, be covered with woodwork so fastened with screws as to be readily removed.
29. All joints in cast iron drain pipes, soil, waste and vent pipes must be filled with oakum and lead and so caulked as to make them gas tight. The amount of lead used to a caulked joint shall not be less than twelve ounces to each inch diameter of the pipe so connected.
30. The plumber will test all soil, waste, drain and vent pipes, in the presence of a plumbing Inspector, and after due notice to the Board of Health, by a pressure test ; the pressure to be applied as directed by the Inspector, and after all openings in the pipes have been securely closed by the master plumber or other person in charge of the work. None of said pipes shall be covered until after they have stood the test to the satisfaction of the Inspector.
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31. All branch lead soil, waste and vent pipes, including bends, must be of the best quality and of not less than the following weights per lineal foot :
Diameter : 13 inches. 2
Weight p.r foot ;
3 4
66 8 3 pounds 8 ounces. 4 pounds. 6 66
32. Where lead pipe is used to connect fixtures with soil or waste pipes, or to connect traps with vent pipes, such branches must be as short as possi- ble
33. All connections of lead with iron pipes must be made with a brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe, put in the hub of the branch of the iron pipe and caulked with lead. The lead pipe must be at- tached to the ferrule by a wiped or overcast joint.
34. All connections of lead waste and vent pipes shall be made by means of wiped joints.
35. Every water-closet, urinal, sink, basin, wash tray, bath, and every tub or set of tubs and hydrant waste pipe, or other fixture, must be sepa- rately and effectively trapped ; except where a sink and wash tubs immediate- ly adjoin each other, in which case the waste pipe from the tubs may be connected with the inlet side of the sink trap. In such a case the tub waste pipe is not required to be separately trapped. Urinal platforms, if connect- ed to drain pipes, must also be properly trapped.
36. Special precaution must be taken to secure perfect joints between water-closet traps placed above the floor and the branch soil and vent pipes for same. Cast iron traps must have lead caulked joints.
Proper floor plates must be used with earthenware water-closet traps and the joints made permanently secure and gas tight.
37. Traps must be placed as near the fixtures as practicable, and in no case shall a trap be more than two feet from the fixture, unless permitted on the approved plan.
38. All waste pipes from fixtures other than water-closets must be pro- vided at the outlet of such fixtures with strong metallic strainers to exclude from such waste pipes all substances likely to obstruct them.
39. In no case shall the waste from a bath tub or other fixture be con- nected with a water-closet trap.
40. Traps must be protected from siphonage, and the waste pipe leading from them ventilated by a special air-pipe, in no case less than two inches in diameter. Except in private dwellings, the vertical vent pipes for traps of water-closets in buildings more than four stories in height must be at least three inches in diameter. All branch vent pipes for water-closet traps must be not less than two inches in diameter, and for traps of other fixtures not less than one and one-half inches in diameter.
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41. Vent pipes, unless permitted by the approved plans to be tapped into an adjacent soil or waste pipe above the highest fixture, must extend two feet above the highest part of the roof or coping, or light shaft louvres. They may be combined by branching together those which serve several traps. These vent pipes must always have a continuous slope, and be con- nected at the bottom with the nearest drain pipe, to avoid obstruction from rust or water.
42. No trap vent pipe shall be used as a waste or soil pipe.
43. Overflow pipes from fixtures must, in each case, be connected on the inlet side of the trap.
44. Every safe under a wash basin, bath, urinal, water-closet or other fixture must be properly graded to, and drained by, a special pipe not direct- ly connected with any soil pipe, waste pipe, drain or sewer, but discharging into an open sink, upon the cellar floor or outside the house. The outlets of such pipes should be covered by flap valves.
45. Water closets inclosed by woodwork must be provided with proper drip trays or safes.
46. The drain pipe from refrigerators shall not be directly connected with the soil or waste pipe, or with the drain or sewer, or discharge upon the ground ; it should discharge into an open and water supply sink. These waste pipes and their branches should be so arranged as to admit of frequent flush- ing, and should be as short as possible, and disconnected from the refrigerator. In tenement houses it must be extended above the roof. Covering the dis- charge outlet by means of a flap valve is recommended.
47. The sediment pipe from kitchen boilers must not be connected on the outlet side of the sink trap.
48. The valves of cisterns must be so fitted and adjusted as to prevent wasting of water, especially where cisterns are supplied from a tank on the roof.
49. All water closets within the house must be supplied with water from special tanks or cisterns, the water of which is not used for any other pur- pose. Interior water closets must never be supplied directly from the Cro- ton supply pipes. Except in tenement houses, a group of closets may be supplied from one tank, but water closets on different floors are not per- mitted to be flushed from one tank. In tenement houses there must be a separate cistern for each water-closet. In no case shall there be less than . one water-closet for every fifteen occupants of a building and not less than one for every floor or story.
50. The overflow pipes from water-closet cisterns may discharge into the water-closet bowl, an open sink, or where its discharge will attract at- tention and indicate that waste of water is occurring, but not into the soil or waste pipe, nor into the drain or sewer.
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51. Where the pressure of Croton water is insufficient to supply water- closets or other fixtures in tenement and lodging houses, factories or work- shops, water must be supplied for such fixtures from a house tank of such size as to afford an adequate supply at all times. In all other cases where tanks are not used, and the supply of water from the Croton pressure is insufficient to properly supply water for all fixtures, adequate pumps must be provided for that purpose.
52. Tanks for drinking water are objectionable, but if indispensable, they must never be lined with lead, galvanized iron or zinc. They should be con- structed of iron, or of wood lined with tin and planished copper, or of wood alone. Overflow pipes from house tanks should discharge upon the roof, or be trapped and discharged into an open sink, but never into any soil or waste pipe or water-closet trap, nor into the drain or sewer. Discharge pipes from such tanks must not deliver into any sewer connected soil or waste pipe.
53. When within the house the leader must be of cast iron, with leaded joints, or of copper with soldered joints. When outside of the house and connected with the house drain it must, if of sheet metal with slip joints, be trapped beneath the ground or just inside of the wall, the trap being arranged so as to prevent freezing. In every case where a leader opens near a window or a light shaft, it must be properly trapped at its base. The joint between a cast-iron leader and the roof must be made gas and water-tight by means of a brass ferrule and lead or copper pipe, properly connected.
54. Rain-water leaders must never be used as soil, waste or vent pipes ; nor shall any soil, waste or vent pipe be used as a leader.
55. No steam exhaust, blow-off or drip pipe shall connect with a sewer or with any house drain, leader, soil pipe, waste or vent pipe. Such pipes must discharge into a tank or condenser, from which a suitable outlet to the house sewer may be provided.
56. Cellars should not be connected to the house drain unless necessary. Dry cesspools should be used where practicable. Mason's traps for yard, cellar and area drains are prohibited.
57. Yards and areas, and open light courts must always be properly graded, cemented, flagged or well paved and properly drained ; when the drain is connected with the house drain it must be effectively trapped. Front area drains must, where practicable, be connected with the house drain inside of the running trap.
58. Cellar and foundation walls must, where necessary, be rendered im- pervious to dampness, and the use of asphaltum or coal-tar pitch, in addi- tion to hydraulic cement, is recommended for that purpose.
59. No privy-vault or cesspool for sewage will be permitted in any part of the city where water closets can be connected with a public sewer in the street.
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60. When there is no sewer in the street, and no way of reaching a sewer in an adjacent street or avenue, by any means provided for in these regula- tions, privy-vaults and cesspools will be permitted ; but only after it has been shown to the satisfaction of the Board of Health that there is no danger of contamination of the water supply from any well in the vicinity. When so permitted, they shall be built and maintained absolutely water- tight. They shall be placed, as far as practicable, from any house, and so ventilated that no nuisance shall result therefrom.
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