A. Permit Required: Before any licensed plumber shall lay, relay or repair any branch or service sewer or water pipe, or tap or make any connection with any sewer or water main within any street, avenue, alley, or public ground within the city, such plumber shall first obtain a permit to do the same as follows: if a water or sewer pipe or main, said plumber shall obtain the necessary permits to do the same and to make the necessary openings in the street, avenue, alley or public ground for the same, from the city.
B. Exception; Fee: The city shall grant such permit on application of any such licensed plumber, if such laying, relaying, repairing, tapping or making of such connection shall be done, which location must not be departed from by such plumber in any degree, except on the written consent made on such permit by the officer giving the same. The amount of the fee, if any, for such permit shall be fixed by resolution of the council. (Ord. 425, 7-24-1972)