The following rules and regulations are hereby established relating to plumbers and in connection with the village water department.
(a) Forty-eight hours' notice shall be given by plumbers before taps will be installed.
(b) Service pipes shall be of copper pipe and not less than three-fourths inch in diameter and shall extend to the meter.
(c) The line of such service pipe shall be at right angles to the main, and the sidewalk stopcock shall be located directly opposite the tap in the main. It shall be laid to not less than five feet below the established grade of the street in which it is laid, without regard to the depth of the street main, and shall have sufficient length to prevent fracture by settlement of earth.
(d) Each service pipe shall have its own independent tap and within the line of the curb at the edge of the sidewalk a stopcock with a cast iron shut-off box five feet long.
(e) The sidewalk stopcock shall be one inch, round way and the top of the stop-box shall be visible and even with the sidewalk, and placed at the outer edge of the sidewalk line. It shall be set plumb and in a substantial manner.
(f) Before back filling, the service pipe shall be inspected by the water department. Backfilling shall be rammed or puddled to the satisfaction of the water department.
(1929 Code, § 806)
Statutory reference:
For state law as to authority of village to regulate construction, etc., of waterworks, see Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 24 § 11-125-3