Merced Municipal Code Art. II Additional Provisions

No permit shall be issued to any person to do or cause to be done any plumbing or drainage work regulated by this chapter, except to a person holding a valid unexpired and unrevoked California plumbing contractor's license and city contractor's business license, except when and as otherwise provided in this chapter.

(Ord. 1228 § 3 (part), 1978: Ord. 1148 § 3 (part), 1975: prior code § 20.2.11 (part)).

Any permit required by this chapter may be issued to any person to do any plumbing or drainage work regulated by this chapter in a single-family dwelling used exclusively for living purposes, including the usual accessory buildings and quarters in connection with such buildings in the event that any person is the bona fide owner of any such dwelling and accessory buildings.

(Ord. 1228 § 3 (part), 1978: Ord. 1148 § 3 (part), 1975: prior code § 20.2.11 (part)).

The chief building official of the city is empowered and it is made his duty in all cases where there is a public sewer within six hundred (600) feet of any lands, buildings or premises to construct, or cause to be constructed, a sufficient sewer or drain pipe in the manner hereinafter required, which shall connect such lands, buildings or premises, and all vaults, cesspools, ditches, water closets, and waste pipe therein or thereon used as a receptacle or conductor of filth with such nearest accessible public sewer, unless such connection is impracticable by reason of the topography of the ground, which connecting sewer or drain pipe shall be of materials as specified in this chapter. Whenever the inspection superintendent requires that any lands, buildings or premises be connected with the public sewer in the manner provided in this chapter, the plumbing official shall serve upon the owner, agent or occupant thereof, a notice in writing specifying the time when such connection must be made, which time shall not be more than one hundred eighty (180) days from the day of service of such notice. If such owners, agents or occupants shall fail or neglect or refuse to connect such lands, buildings, or premises with the public sewer within the specified time in such notice, the inspection superintendent shall cause such connection to be made and the amount paid for the construction of the same shall be assessed against the premises so drained. The amount of such charge shall constitute a lien upon the premises so drained, and such assessment shall be collected and the lien enforced by suit in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(Ord. 1536 § 3, 1984: Ord. 1228 § 4, 1978: Ord. 1148 § 3, (part), 1975: prior code § 20.2.12).

Nothing contained in this chapter shall require any person to hold a valid, unexpired and unrevoked California plumbing contractor's license in order to engage in the occupation of laying sewer pipe outside of buildings and inside of property lines. The city shall not refuse to grant a permit, inspection tags or approval of such work on the grounds that such person does not possess a plumbing contractor's license; provided, that such work is not in violation of any provision of state law concerning the licensing of contractors.

(Prior code § 20.4).