94-9619 1991 UPCKlh.-Cox Printing — Salina, Kansas
(Published in The Salina Journal February 16, 1994)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 94-9619
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE VI, DIVISION 1, AND SECTION
8-202 OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE SALINA CODE REGULATING PLUMBING AND
DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, AND REPEALING THE EXISTING ARTICLE VI, DIVISION 1
AND SECTION 8-202.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That Article VI, Division 1 of Chapter 8 of the
Salina Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"ARTICLE Vi. PLUMBING CODE
DIVISION 1. GENERALLY
"Section 8-176. Uniform Plumbing Code adopted.
In order to protect the public health and safety
of the city through the establishment of minimum
regulations for the design, construction,
Installation, quality of materials, location,
operation, alteration, repair and maintenance of
plumbing and drainage systems, the provisions of the
1991 Edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code, and all
appendices thereto, are hereby incorporated by
reference herein an adopted as the plumbing code of
the city, except as modified by this article, of which
not fewer than three (3) copies have been and now are
filed in the office of the city cierk and the same are
hereby incorporated as fully as if set out at length
herein and the provisions thereof shall be controlling
in the installation, alteration, repair and
maintenance of all plumbing and drainage systems
within the corporate limits of the city.
"Section 8-177. Administrative authority defined.
Whenever the term "administrative authority" is
used in this article or in the Uniform Plumbing Code
hereby adopted, it shall be construed to mean the city
building official, and shall include his authorized
representatives. The posers and duties of the
administrative authority shall be as set forth in the
Uniform Plumbing Code.
"Section 8-178. Amendment of Section 30.1 of Part
I of the Uniform Plumbing Code.
Section 30.1 of Part I of the Uniform Plumbing
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Permits
(a) 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 (b) of this section, or
cause the same to be done without first obtaining
a separate plumbing permit for each separate
building or structure.
(b) Exempt Work. A permit will not be required
for the following:
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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
cons i dered as new work and a perm i t sha I I be
procured and inspection made as provided in
this Code.
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.
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 of the Code or any
other laws or ordinances of this jurisdiction.
"Section 8-179. Fees.
The fee for each perm i t or i nspect i on requ i red by
the Uniform Plumbing Code, 1991 edition, shall be as
set forth in a fee schedule adopted pursuant to
section 2-2 of the Salina Code in lieu of the
provision specified in section 30.4(a) and (b) of Part
I of the Uniform Plumbing Code.
"Section 8-180. Amendment of Section 104 of
Chapter 1 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
Section 104 of Chapter 1 of the Uniform Plumbing
code is hereby amended to read as follows:
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) Clarifier - See Interceptor.
(d) 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.
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(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) 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 or less.
(h) Common - Common means that part of a
plumbing system which is so designed and
installed as to serve more than one (1)
appliance, fixture, building, or system.
(i) Confined Space - A room or space having a
volume less than 50 cubic feet per 1000
Btu/h (1.4m /1000 Btu/h) of the aggregate
input rating of all fuel burning appliances
installed in that space.
(j) 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.
(k) Continuous Vent - A continuous vent is a
vertical vent that is a continuation of the
drain to which it connects.
(1) 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.
(m) Critical Level - The critical level C -L or
C/L 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.
(n) Cross -Connection - A cross -connection is any
connection or arrangement, physical or
otherwise, 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.
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"Section 8-181. Amendment of Chapter 3 of the
Uniform Plumbing Code.
Chapter 3 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby
amended to include the addition of Section 323, to
read as follows:
Section 323 - Testing
No water test will be required for DWV systems in
Group R, Division 3 occupancies.
"Section 8-182. Amendment of Section 608 of
Chapter 6 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
Section 608 of Chapter 6 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Appliances
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) When undiluted condensate waste from a fuel
burning condensing appliance is discharged into the
drainage system, the material in the drainage system
sha I I be cast iron, gaIvanized iron, pIastic, or other
materials approved for this use.
EXCEPTION: 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 401 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.
"Section 8-183. Amendment of Section 613 of
Chapter 6 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code.
Section 613 of Chapter 6 of the Uniform Plumbing
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Vertical Wet Venting
(a) Wet venting is limited to vertical drainage
piping receiving the discharge from the trap arm of
one (1) and two (2) fixture unit fixtures that also
serves as a vent for not to exceed four (4) fixtures.
All wet vented fixtures shall be on the same floor
level; provided, further, that fixtures with a
continuous vent discharging into a wet vent shall be
on the same floor level as the wet vented fixtures.
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(b) The vertical piping between any two (2)
consecutive inlet levels shall be considered a wet
vented section. Each wet vented section sha I i 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 (50.8mm).
(c) Common vent s i z i ng sha I I be the sum of the
fixture units served but in no case smaller than the
minimum vent pipe size required for any fixture
served, or by Section 504.
(d) 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 7-1.
Section 2. That Section 8-202 of Chapter 8 of the Salina
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 8-282. Certification required; exception.
It shall be unlawful for any person to labor at
the trade of plumbing without first having has issued
to him a plumbing license and or a plumbing
contractors license.
Any person regularly employed by the water and
sewerage department shall be exempt from the
provisions of this section when performing labor on
property owned and maintained by the city; and
provided further, that any person holding a valid
mobile home craftsman license issued by the city shall
be exempt from the provisions of this section while
performing those services for which he is licensed
under article IV of chapter 22. (Code 1966, 9-207)"
Section 3. That the existing Article VI, Division 1 and
Section 8-202 of Chapter 8 of the Salina Code are hereby repealed.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its adoption and publication once in the
official city newspaper.
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
9tphanie Krug
Acting City Cler
Introduced: January 24, 1994
Passed: February 7, 1994
Peter F. Brungardt," ayor