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(e) To throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited <br />in any vessel or receptacle connected with the public <br />sewer any newspaper, garbage, hair, fruit, ashes, vege- <br />table peelings or re fuse, rags, cotton, cinders, or any <br />other ma.tter whatsoever except faeces, urine, the ne- <br />cessary toilet tissue and liquid slops from approved <br />mechanical garbage dispo$als. <br />To fail or refuse to connect with the sewer all wash- <br />stands or slop stands in house or yards within the san- <br />itary sewer district or to allow any slop, wash or waste <br />water of any kind to flow over the pavement or under <br />the pavement into the streets or alleyso <br />Section 5. No person or corporation shali connect any open gutter, <br />cesspool, privy, vault, or cistern with any public sevver, or any private <br />sewer connected with the public sewer. <br />Section 6. No person or coxporation shall deposit any garbage, offal, <br />dead animals, filth or any aubstance having a tendency to obstruct the flow <br />of sewage in any manhole, lamphole, flush tank or sewer opening. <br />Section 7, The City Plumbing Inspector ahall have the power to stop <br />and prevent from discharging into the public sewer any private drain, or <br />house connections, through which subatancea are discharged which are <br />likely or liable to injure the sewers or to obstruct the flow of the sewage, <br />or to interfere with the operation of the disposal plant. <br />Section 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to obstruct <br />or in any way injure any of the pipes, drain works or ma,chinery belonging <br />to or connected with the sewer system of the City of Paris, Texas, or to <br />place any substance whatever into any sink, water closet, bath tub, vessels, <br />drains or other receptacles, belongi.ng to or connected with said sewer <br />system which may obstruct or injure same. <br />Section 9, Any person, firm or corporation desiring to lay pipes for <br />water, gas, steam, or any purpose, in any street or alley upon which sewers <br />are laid, shall give at least twenty-four hours notice to the City Engineer <br />before opening the street or alley, and the manner of excavating the <br />trenches and laying the pipe and back-filling over same shall be subject to <br />the approval of the City Engineer. All such work shall be planned and exe- <br />cuted so that no injury shall occur to any public sewer or drain, or to any <br />house sewer drain connected therewith. <br />Section 10. The property owner, or plumber, or both, sha.ll be held <br />responsible for any injuries the plumber shall cause to the sewer or street <br />in making such connections. <br />Section 11. The house sewer trench shall be dug so as to meet the <br />public sewer at the position of the "Y" branch located by the City Engineer <br />or his agexits. Proper barriers and lights must be maintained on the banks <br />of the trench to guard the public against accidents during the progress of <br />the worko In back-filling, the earth shall be carefully rammed or flooded <br />so as to keep the pipe in proper position and avoid settling, and no stone <br />shall be used in filling until there has been a depth of two (2) feet of fine <br />earth or gravel placed over the pipe. <br />