Sec. 491(5). Licenses—bond required.
Any person, firm or corporation about to engage in the plumbing
business or the installation of plumbing systems in the City
shall first be licensed as required by the license laws of the City.
Before such licenses shall be issued by the Commissioner of
Revenue the applicant must exhibit a certificate showing that the
law hereafter required has been executed.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the plumbing
business shall enter into a bond with security satisfactory to the
City Manager in the penalty of $500.00 to indemnify and save
harmless the City, its citizens, residents and property owners
against any and all loss by reason of his failure to comply with
the requirements of this Chapter or from neglect or carelessness
in his work, and conditioned further that should any such work
be defective or incomplete and such person, firm or corporation
shall fail to correct the same within ten days after written notice
from the Plumbing Inspector, or his duly authorized representative,
the City Manager may have such work corrected or completed
and the cost thereof, as well as all the costs and expenses
incurred in collecting the same, may be recovered on the bond.
Such bond shall be renewed annually and placed in hands of
Plumbing Inspector on or before the first day of May of each
year.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the plumbing business
shall make good all damages arising by reason of violations
of this section. Work improperly done and not corrected after
ten days written notice by the Plumbing Inspector may be corrected
by the City Manager and the costs thereof and 20% additional
collected from said person, firm or corporation and such violation
shall subject such person, firm or corporation to a fine as
hereinafter proved and the City Manager may revoke his license
to do business, but the defendant shall have the right of appeal to
the Council.
