98-9853 1994 UPCORDINANCE NUMBER 98-9853
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF ARTICLE VI
OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO BUILDINGS BY ADOPTING
THE 1994 UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Sections 8-176, 8-178, 8-179, 8-1808-181, 8-182 and 8-183 of
Chapter 8 of the Salina Code are hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 8-176. Uniform Plumbing Code adopted.
There is hereby adopted, by reference, by the city for the purpose of
providing minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property,
and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction,
quality of materials, location, operation, alteration, repair, maintenance,
of plumbing and drainage systems within the city and certain equipment
specifically regulated therein, that certain plumbing code known as the
Uniform Plumbing Code, recommended and published by the International
Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, being particularly the
1994 edition not including appendices thereto, except as amended in this
article of the Salina Code, of which not fewer than three (3) copies have
been, and are now filed in the office of the City Clerk and the same are
hereby incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein and the
provisions thereof shall be controlling in the construction of all buildings
and structures therein contained within the corporate limits of the city.
Sec. 8-178. Amendment of Section 103.1 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
[Section 103.1 of the Uniform Plumbing is hereby amended to read as
follows:]
103.1 Permits.
103.1.1 Permits required. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to make any installation, alteration, repair, replacement or
remodel any plumbing, gas, or drainage piping work or any fixture or
water heating or treating equipment regulated by this code except as
permitted in subsection 103.1.2 of this section, or cause the same to be
done without first obtaining a separate plumbing permit for each separate
building or structure.
103.1.2 Exempt work. A permit will not be required for the following:
103.1.2.1 The stopping of leaks in drains, soil, waste or vent
pipe, provided, however, that should any concealed trap,
drainpipe, soil, waste or vent pipe become defective and it
becomes necessary to remove and replace the same with new
material, the same shall be considered as new work and a permit
shall be procured and inspection made as provided in this code.
103.1.2.2 The clearing of stoppages or the repairing of leaks in
pipes, valves or fixtures, or for the removal and reinstallation of
water closets, provided such repairs do not involve or require the
replacement or rearrangement of valve, pipes or fixtures.
103.1.2.3 No permit shall be required to replace equivalent
fixtures or traps which were initially installed with slip joint
fittings. No permit shall be required for the replacement or
installation of flexible gas appliance connectors.
Exemption from the permit requirements of the code shall not be deemed
to grant authorization for any work to be done in violation of the provisions
or any other laws or
Sec. 8-179. Amendment of Section 103.4 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
[Section 103.4 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:]
103.4.1 Permit Fees. The fee for permits or inspections required by the
Uniform Plumbing Code, 1994 edition shall be as set forth in the fee
schedule adopted pursuant to section 2-2 of the Salina Code of Ordinances.
103.4.2 Deleted.
103.4.3 Deleted.
103.4.4 Investigation Fees: Work without a permit.
103.4.4.1 Whenever any work for which a permit is required by this
Code has been commenced without first obtaining said permit, a
special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for
such work.
103.4.4.2 An investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be
collected whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The
investigation fee shall be equal to the amount of the permit fee that
would be required by this Code if a permit were to be issued. The
payment of such investigation fee shall not exempt any person from
compliance with all other provisions of this Code, nor from any
penalty prescribed by law.
103.4.5 Fee Refunds.
103.4.5.1 The Administrative Authority may authorize the refunding
of any fee paid hereunder which was erroneously paid or collected.
103.4.5.2 The Administrative Authority may authorize the refunding
of not more than eighty (80) percent of the permit fee paid when no
work has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this
Code.
103.4.5.3 The Administrative Authority may authorize the refunding
of not more than eighty (80) percent of the plan review fee paid when
an applicant for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is
withdrawn or canceled before any plan review effort has been
expended.
The Administrative Authority shall not authorize the refunding of any
fee paid except upon written application filed by the original
permittee not later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the date
of the fee payment.
Sec. 8-180. Amendment of Section 202 (-C-) of the Uniform
Plumbing Code.
[Section 202.0 (-C-) of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:]
Certified Backflow Assembly Tester. A certified backflow assembly
tester is a person who has shown competence to test and maintain
backflow assemblies to the satisfaction of the Administrative Authority
having jurisdiction.
Cesspool. A cesspool is a lined excavation in the ground which receives
the discharge of a drainage system or part thereof, so designed as to retain
the organic matter and solids discharging therein, but permitting the
liquids to seep through the bottom and sides.
Cleanout. In addition to typical definition, cleanout will include a fixture
trap or a fixture with integral trap, readily removable without disturbing
concealed piping shall be acceptable as a cleanout equivalent.
Code. The word "Code" or "this Code," when used alone, shall mean these
regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rule or
regulation which the Administrative Authority having jurisdiction may
lawfully adopt.
Combination Thermostatic/Pressure Balancing Valve. A mixing
valve which senses outlet temperature and incoming hot and cold water
pressure and compensates for fluctuations in incoming hot and cold water
temperatures and pressures to stabilize outlet temperatures.
Combination Waste and Vent System. A combination waste and vent
system is a specially designed system of waste piping embodying the
horizontal wet venting of one or more sinks or floor drains by means of a
common waste and vent pipe, adequately sized to provide free movement
of air above the flow line of the drain.
Combustible Construction. For the purpose of this Code, combustible
construction is a structure in which any member of its structural
framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of 1392°F (756°C) or less.
Common. Common means that a part of a plumbing system which is so
designed and installed as to serve more than one (1) appliance, fixture,
building, or system.
Confined Space. A room or space having a volume less than fifty (50)
cubic feet per 1000 Btu/h (1.4 m3/293W) of the aggregate input rating of all
fuel burning appliances installed in that space.
Contamination. An impairment of the quality of the potable water which
creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or through
the spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or waste. Also defined
as High Hazard.
Continuous Vent. A continuous vent is a vertical vent that is a
continuation of the drain to which it connects.
Continuous Waste. A continuous waste is a drain connecting the
compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted
fixtures to a common trap.
Critical Level. The critical level C -L or CIL marking on a backflow
prevention device or vacuum breaker is a point conforming to approved
standards and established by the testing laboratory (usually stamped on
the device by the manufacturer which determines the minimum elevation
above the flood level rim of the fixture or receptacle served at which the
device may be installed. When a backflow prevention device does not bear
a critical level marking, the bottom of the vacuum breaker, combination
valve, or the bottom of any such approved device shall constitute the
critical level.
Cross -Connection. A cross -connection is any connection or arrangement,
physical or other wise, between a potable water supply system and any
plumbing fixture or any tank, receptacle, equipment or device, through
which it may be possible for non -potable, used, unclean, polluted and
contaminated water, or other substances, to enter into any part of such
potable water system under any condition.
Sec. 8-181. Amendment of Section 712.1 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
[Section 712.1 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read
as
Section 712.1 - Media.
The piping of the plumbing, drainage, and venting systems shall be tested
with water or air. The Administrative Authority may require the removal
of any cleanouts, etc., to ascertain if the pressure has reached all parts of
the system. After the plumbing fixtures have been set and their traps
filled with water, they shall be submitted to a final test.
No test will be required for plastic DWV systems.
Sec. 8-182. Amendment of Section 807 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
[Section 807 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:]
Section 807.0 -Appliances.
Section 807.1 Appliances, devices, equipment, or other apparatus not
regularly classed as plumbing fixtures which are equipped with pumps,
drips, or drainage outlets may be drained by indirect waste pipes
discharging into an approved type open receptor.
Section 807.2. When the condensate waste from air conditioning coils
discharges by direct connection to a lavatory tailpiece or to an approved
accessible inlet on a bathtub overflow, the connection shall be located in
the area controlled by the same person controlling the air-conditioned
space.
Section 807.3. When undiluted condensate waste from a fuel burning
condensing appliance is discharged into the drainage system, the material
in the drainage system shall be cast iron, galvanized iron, plastic or other
materials approved for this use.
EXCEPTIONS:
(1) When the above condensate is discharged to an exposed fixture
tailpiece and trap, such tailpiece and trap may be brass.
(2) Any materials approved in Section 701.0 may be used when, in
the opinion of the Administrative Authority, condensate waste from
a fuel burning condensing appliance is diluted either before or after
discharge into the drainage system.
Sec. 8-183. Amendment of Section 908 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
[Section 908.0 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:]
Section 908.0 Vertical Wet Venting
Section 908.1. Wet venting is limited to vertical drainage piping receiving
the discharge from the trap arm of one (1) and two (2) fixture unit Mures
that also serves as a vent for not to exceed four (4) fixtures. All wet vented
fixtures shall be within the same story; provided, further, that fixtures
with a continuous vent discharging into a wet vent shall be within the
same story as the wet vented fixtures. No wet vent shall exceed ten (10)
feet in developed length.
Section 908.2. The vertical piping between any two (2) consecutive inlet
levels shall be a minimum of one (1) pipe size larger than the required
minimum waste pipe size of the upper fixture or shall be one (1) pipe size
larger than the required minimum pipe size for the sum of the fixture
units served by such wet vented section, whichever is larger, but in no case
less than two (2) inches (50.8 mm).
bection yuzs.3. common vent sizing snail ae the sum of the nxture units
served but in no case smaller than the minim vent pipe size required for
any fixture served, or by Section 904.0.
Section 908.4. One horizontal offset may be permitted in a wet vented
section. The length of the offset will be limited to the lengths of trap arms
as required in table 10-1."
Section 2. That Sections 8-185 of Chapter 8 of the Salina Code is hereby
added to read as follows:
"Sec. 8-185. Amendment of Section 807.4 of the Uniform
Plumbing Code.
[Section 807.4 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended as
follows:]
Section 807.4 of Chapter 8 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby
deleted."
Section 3. That the existing Sections 8-176, 8-178, 8-179, 8-180, 8-182 and 8-
183 are hereby repealed
Section 4. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its adoption and publication once in the official city newspaper.
{SEAL}
ATTEST:
D. Long
X -
City Clerk
Introduced: January 26, 1998
Passed: February 2, 1998
istin M. �Seaton�,Mayor