1508 ORD AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 1074 AND ORDINANCE NO 1202

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Section 55. All connections of lead pipe to cast iron pipes and fittings shall be made with extra heavy brass ferrules calked to cast iron pipe and wiped to lead pipe or combination iron to lead ferrules. Section 56. All plumbing fixtures shall be installed as open plumbing. Section 57. 5ectional wash trays may be trapped and vented as follows: The waste pipe from one to three compartments of sectional wash trays may connect with one four-inch lead drum trap, trap to be revented. Additional compartments may be connected in the same manner. Section 58, Steam boiler blow-off, pump exhausts and bleeda from engine heaters and tanks shall empty into cast-iron, brick, or concrete blow-off tank and vent pipe shall be carried through roof, from said tank, to carry off steam and vapor, the tank to have water seal trap and drain pipe to discharge into a catch basin. Section 59, Pan, long hopper, plunger, or other closets having a direct supply, or closets not having walls flushed with each discha.rge of the tank, must be replaced with uiater closets as called for in this ordi- nance. Bell traps shall not be used except when they connect with a catch basin, unless same is provided with a gate or back water valve and vented and trapped. PROHIBITED CONNEC TIONS: Section 60. (a) No fixture, device or construction shall be installed which will provide a back flow connection between a distribution system of water for drinking and domestic purposes and a drainage system, soil, or waste pipe so as to permit or make possible the backflow of sewage or waste into the water supply system. (b) No inter-connection or cross-connection shall be made between a water supply system carrying water meeting accepted standards of purity and any other water supply system. Section 61. That on or after the passing of this ordinance it shall be unlawful to dispose of any: human excr:ete within the corporate limits of the City of Paris, Texa.s and outside the sanitary district, except in a sanitary water flush closet or a chemical toilet or concrete vault or an approved sanitary pit privy built according to the specifications of the Stat e Department of Health, 5uch toilets or privies shall be kept in a clean condition at all time s. Section 62. All privies existing or maintained within the corporate limits of the City of Paris9 Texas, after this ordinance becomes effective which do not conform to the requirements of this ordinance shall be, and are hereby declared a nuisance, and a menace to public health, and the City of Paris, Texas shall have the power and authority to abate such nuisance in accordance with the law, or in accordance v+ith the ordinancea of said City of Paris, Texas. Section 63o It shall be the duty of the health officer having jurisdic- tion, or his duly authorized assistant to enter all premises as may be necessary in the enforcement of this ordina.nce and he is hereby so em- powered. Section 64. That any person, firm, association or corporation who shall fail to comply with, or shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Two Hundred ($200. 00)