(A) Any person desiring a license as a plumber to do work in connection with the waterworks or the sanitary sewer system of the city, for which a license from the city is now required by ordinances now or hereafter in effect, shall make application in writing therefore to the City Council, which application shall include, or be accompanied by, satisfactory evidence that the person is, or has in his or her employ, a person regularly trained and educated to the plumber’s trade and duly licensed as a plumber by the state, and that he or she is, in all respects, a person suitable to receive a license. The applicant shall also furnish satisfactory evidence that he or she has and will maintain, in effect during the period of his or her license, public liability insurance covering any and all services he or she may perform pursuant to his or her license, with limits of liability of not less than $100,000 per claimant and $300,000 per accident or occurrence. The application shall be accompanied by a license fee in the amount of $40.
(B) If reasonably satisfied that the applicant is properly qualified, the City Council shall direct that a license be issued to him or her; provided, however, that, no license shall be issued to any person until he or she shall have executed and deposited in the office of the City Administrator a bond in favor of the city in the sum of $2,000, executed by himself or herself and a corporate surety approved by the City Council, and conditioned that he or she shall indemnify and hold harmless the city from all claims, actions, suits and expenses and damages arising therefrom, buffered by any person in consequence of or arising from any work, labor or service performed by him or her upon the waterworks or sanitary sewer system of the city, or otherwise pursuant to his or her license from the city, including any openings that may be made by him or her, or under his or her direction, in any street, alley or public ground for making any water or sewer connection or otherwise; that he or she will, in any case in which he or she shall have made an excavation in any street, alley or public ground for any purpose, restore the surface and pavement, if any, to as good a condition as he or she found it; that he or she will, in all respects, conform to ordinances and regulations of the city relative to the waterworks and sanitary sewer system; that he or she will pay any and all fines that may be imposed upon him or her by law for his or her failure to do so; and that he or she will pay any and all damages that the city may, at any time, suffer by reason of any failure on his or her part to do so, or by reason of any negligence on his or her part or on the part of city agents, employees or servants in performing the work.
(C) Every license so issued shall expire by limitation on June 30 next after the date thereof; or it may be suspended or revoked at any time by the City Council on satisfactory proof of any willful failure or inexcusable neglect of the licensee to observe the rules and regulations prescribed by any ordinance or resolution passed by the City Council or to obey any reasonable direction given by the Council or its agent respecting the performance of any service undertaken by the licensee in connection with the works; and the permanent removal of the licensee from the county, unless he or she shall have been licensed from outside of the county shall, in itself, effect a forfeiture of the license.
(D) This section shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Ordinance 35 was published 6-8-1962. Ordinance 35.1 was published 8-13-1973.
(Ord. 35, passed 6-4-1962; Ord. 35.1, passed 8-6-1973)