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Plumbing Code Updates and Amendments - For the purpose of adopting the International Plumbing Code; prohibiting underground use of foam core waste lines; and matters generally relating to updating and amending Chapter 17.28 of the Code of the City of Annapolis.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 4-18
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Referred to
Economic Matters Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Plumbing Code Updates and Amendments
FOR the purpose of adopting the International Plumbing Code; prohibiting underground use of foam core waste lines; and matters generally relating to updating and amending Chapter 17.28 of the Code of the City of Annapolis.
BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2018 Edition
17.28.020
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
TITLE 17 - BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 17.28 - PLUMBING CODE
Section 17.28.020 - National Standard Plumbing Code International Plumbing Code-Adopted.
The International Plumbing Code, 2015 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, Inc., a copy of which is on file in the Department of Planning and Zoning, is hereby adopted as the Plumbing Code of the City of Annapolis with the following amendments:
A. All other new or substantially remodeled structures for human habitation or use shall be equipped with sufficient sanitary facilities. For commercial structures, sanitary facilities shall be located on all floors. Sanitary facilities shall be accessible within the building interior to the users within the working space or public hallways or corridors. Sanitary facilities shall not be shared between tenants.
B. Whenever possible, cleanouts shall not be located within private or public driveways subject to vehicle traffic. If required, provide heavy duty cleanout to meet City standards, subject to approval.
C. A grease interceptor is required in restaurants, hotel kitchens, bars, cafeterias or restaurants, clubs, or other establishments that have food preparation, (except in special cases as may be determined by the Wastewater Pretreatment Coordinator). The size of the interceptor shall be determined by the Wastewater Pretreatment Coordinator but not less than a minimum of five hundred-gallon size and shall be located outside accessible for cleaning and pumping unless approved otherwise by the Wastewater Pretreatment Coordinator. All waste except toilet room waste shall discharge through the interceptor. A minimum of one six-inch cast iron sampling cleanout shall be provided at the property line.
D. Oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the Wastewater Pretreatment Coordinator, they are necessary for the proper handling of oily waste, flammable waste, sand, solids and other ingredients harmful to the building drainage system, the public sewer, or sewerage treatment plant or process.
E. Interceptors shall be installed in accordance with City specifications.
F. Commercial dishwashers may need to be modified as to not affect the operation of the interceptor as approved by the Wastewater Pretreatment Coordinator.
G. All commercial food waste grinders are prohibited.
H. Water-cooled equipment is prohibited from discharging through an interceptor.
I. Food and drink establishments shall provide hot and cold water frostproof hose bibbs at all garbage can, trash, dumpster, and food and trash compactor areas.
J. An owner shall install tracer wire on all newly installed underground plastic pipes. When the open trenching method of pipeline construction is used, an owner shall install suitable identification tape at least twelve inches above the top of the pipe.
K. Each dwelling unit shall have an accessible valve from outside the dwelling to shutoff the water supply to the dwelling unit without stopping the supply in other dwelling units, unless otherwise approved by the Code Official.
L. Provide safety/drip pans under all washers, water heaters and above ceiling mounted air conditioners to collect possible condensation overflow or water leakage. Hook up primary and secondary condensate lines and discharge to outside at grade when possible. The discharge lines to the pans shall be one and one-half inch diameter.
M. Air gap fitting shall be required on all residential type dishwashing machines unless preapproved by the administrative authority.
N. Any time that repairs to backflow prevention assemblies are deemed necessary, whether through annual or required testing, or routine inspection by consumer or by the City of Annapolis, these repairs must be completed within a specified time in accordance with the degree of hazard, not to exceed: health hazard seven days and non-health hazard twenty-one days.
O. All backflow assembly test equipment must be approved by the City. All test equipment shall be checked for accuracy annually (at minimum) and the tester may be required to submit a certificate of calibration to be filed with the City.
P. Knowingly making any false statement on any report or other document required by this chapter is subject to enforcement in accordance with this chapter.
Q. Property line clean out must be cast iron (service weight or greater) at finish grade level. At base of the clean out riser where connected to building sewer, property line clean out must be encased in concrete of at least eight inches or greater.
R. Foam core waste lines are not permitted for underground uses.
S. All sewage ejector or sewage pump systems shall be provided with an audible, visual, or combination high water alarm device. Exception: Sewage ejectors and sewage pumps serving individual fixtures and macerating toilet systems.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.
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