Amending Ordinance No. 1808 with Reference to a Plumbing Code

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-39- or used for human habitation. Section CXLIX. Where water closets or other plumbing fixtures are placed under a sidewalk, street, alley or otherlike place, adjoining and opening into the basement of any building, each and every fixture so placed shall be ventilated in the same manner as is provided for other plumbing fixtures in this ordinance, and the water closet compartments shall be adequately lighted and ventilated, and the bowls of such closets must be caulked to the soil pipe or securely bolted to a cast iron flange, or provided with an approved. screw connection. Section CL. When bath room or toilet room fixtures or sinks are replaced by modern fixtures, the waste connections under the floor trapping and vent pipes shall conform to these Rules and Regulations, the same as in a new building. Section CLI. Copper lined wooden bath tubs shall not be installed, nor shall any old fixture of this class be reconnected. Section CLII. Air supply for beer pumps shall be taken from the outside of the building. Section CLIII. Overflow pipes from cisterns shall not connect directly with any house sewer, but drain pipes from bottom of cistern may connect with the sewer if properly valved. Section CLIV. Every dwelling house, hotel, factory, store, or other building in which plumbing or house drainage work or arrangements are to be placed shall be connected with the .public sewer and with the public water mains, which are or may become accessible, and such Connections shall be deemed to be accessible, when such public sewer or public water mains:�are within:. a distance of one hundred (100) feet of any outside line of the lot upon-which said building