Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 15.28 INTERNATIONAL PLUMBING CODE*
15.28.020 Amendments to the 2003 International Plumbing Code.
The following sections of the 2003 International Plumbing Code are amended
to read as follows:
101.1 -- Title: These regulations shall be known as the International
Plumbing Code of the City of Clovis hereinafter referred to as “this
code”.
106.6.2 -- Fee Schedule: The fees for all plumbing work shall be as
indicated in the following schedule:
Plumbing
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Each Plumbing Fixture/waste discharging device
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$ 3.00 per item
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Water distribution system
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each house sewer
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each septic tank
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$ 4.50 per item
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Each grease trap
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$ 4.50 per item
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Water Heater -- electric
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each swimming pool
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$37.50 per item
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Each water conditioner
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$ 4.50 per item
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Each yard sprinkler system
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$10.00 per item
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Each vacuum breaker/backflow device
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each hot water solar system
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$15.00 per item
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Gas
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Each yard line
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$ 4.50 per item
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Each capped opening
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each water heater
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each wall heater
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each circulating heater
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each range
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each floor furnace
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$ 5.00 per item
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Each dryer
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$ 3.00 per item
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Each mercury test
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$ 7.50 per item
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Miscellaneous
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Administrative Fee (per permit)
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$15.00
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Re-Inspection of any failed work
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$20.00
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Red Tag -- per address
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$ 3.00
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Final Inspection (new construction)
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$ 7.50
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Inspection after normal business hrs
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$30.00
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106.6.3 Fee Refunds -- specify percentage:
(2) Not more than fifty percent (50%) of the permit fee paid when no work
has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this code.
(3) Not more than fifty percent (50%) of the plan review fee paid when an
application for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn
or canceled before any plan review effort has been expended.
108.4 -- Violation penalties: Any person who shall violate a provision of
this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof or who
shall erect, install, alter or repair plumbing work in violation of the approved
construction documents or directive of the code official, or of a permit or
certificate issued under the provisions of this code, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding ten (10) days, or both such fine and
imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been
served shall be deemed a separate offense.
108.5 -- Stop Work Orders: Upon notice from the code official, work on
any plumbing system that is being done contrary to the provisions of this code
or in a dangerous or unsafe manner shall immediately cease. Such notice shall
be in writing and shall be given to the owner of the property, or to the
owner’s agent, or to the person doing the work. The notice shall state
the conditions under which work is authorized to resume. Where an emergency
exists, the code official shall continue any work in or about the structure
after having been served with a stop work order, except such work as that person
is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition, shall be
liable of a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more than
five hundred dollars ($500.00). _______________ hereby declared unsafe. Any use
of plumbing regulated by this code constituting a hazard to safety, health or
public welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence,
fire hazard, disaster, damage or abandonment is hereby declared an unsafe use.
Any such unsafe equipment is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and shall
be abated by repair, rehabilitation, demolition or removal.
109.1 -- General. In order to hear and decide appeals of orders,
decisions or determinations made by the plumbing official relative to the
application and interpretation of this code, there shall be and is hereby
created an appeals process. The Director of Technical Assistance or the staff
of the ICC Opinion Policy will provide the opinion of the ICC in writing, by
telephone, or by E-mail. The final authority of code interpretations is the
responsibility of the Code Official.
109.2 -- Limitations on authority. The process for appeal shall be based
on a claim that the true intent of this code or the rules legally adopted
thereunder have been incorrectly interpreted, the provisions of this code do not
fully apply, or an equally good or better form of construction is
proposed.
(Ord. 1803-2004 §2(E), 2004).
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