Text Of Plumbing Laws And Regulations In Force In New York, Brooklyn, And Boston, May, 1885 New York.

The Registration Of Plumbers, And The Law And Regulations Governing The Plumbing And Drainage Of All Buildings Hereafter Erected - Chapter 450, Laws of 1881.

An Act to secure the Registration of Plumbers, and the Supervision of Plumbing and Drainage, in the Cities of New York and Brooklyn.

Passed June 4, 1881.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. On or before the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, every master or journeyman plumber, carrying on his trade in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, shall, under such rules and regulations as the respective Boards of Health of the Health Departments of said cities shall respectively prescribe, register his name and address at the Health Department of the said city; and after the said date, it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in the said cities unless his name and address be registered as above provided.

Sec. 2. A list of the registered plumbers of the city of New York shall be pub-in the City Record at least once in each year.

Sec. 3. The drainage and plumbing of all buildings, both public and private, hereafter erected in the city of New York, or in the city of Brooklyn, shall be executed in accordance with plans previously approved in writing by the Board of Health of the said Health Departments of said cities respectively. Suitable drawings and descriptions of the said plumbing and drainage shall in each case be submitted and placed on file in the Health Department. The said Boards of Health are also authorized to receive and place on file drawings and descriptions of the plumbing and drainage of buildings erected prior to the passage of this act in their respective cities.

Sec. 4. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the city of New York shall add six thousand dollars to the apportionment of the Health Department for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and shall insert the same in the tax levy, to provide for carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as it relates to the city of New York.

Sec. 5. Any court of record in said cities respectively, or any judge or justice thereof, shall have power at any time after the service of notice of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and upon the affidavit of one of the Commissioners of Health of the said cities, to restrain, by injunction order, the further progress of any violation named in this act, or of any work upon or about the building or premises upon which the said violation exists; and no undertaking shall be required as a condition to the granting or issuing of such injunction, or by reason thereof.

Sec. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.