2262
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 81

Notice and plan of intended new building or rebuilding to be given.
23. Every person who shall intend to erect a building or rebuild, or make any addition or alteration to any building, shall give to the Board five days’ notice of such intention, which notice shall be accompanied by plans and section of such intended buildings, or addition or alteration, drawn to a scale of 1 in. to every 8 ft., showing the intended lines of drainage of such building, and the details of the arrangement proposed to be adopted for the ventilation of the drains.

Drainage of subsoil.
24. Where it is decided that subsoil-drainage is necessary, then every person who shall erect a new building thereon shall cause the subsoil of such building to be effectively drained by means of suitable stoneware pipes properly laid to a suitable outfall, whenever the circumstances of the site render such precautions necessary.
(a.) He shall not lay any such pipes in such a manner or in such a position as to communicate directly with any cesspool, or with any drain constructed or adapted to be used for conveying sewerage; but shall provide a suitable trap with a ventilator opening at a point in the line of the subsoil-drain as near as may be practicable to such a trap.

Lowest story of building to be at level above sewer.
25. Every person who shall erect a new building shall construct the lowest story of such building at such a level as will allow of the construction of a drain sufficient for the effectual drainage of such building, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer, or with any other means of drainage with which such drains may lawfully communicate. The Board may in any case in which they think proper exempt any person from the provisions of this by-law.

Regulating deposit of solid matters in cesspools and house-drains.
26. No person shall cause or permit any extraneous solid matter, animal or any other matter, to be deposited in closet-traps, yard-sinks, or house-drains on any pretext whatever.

Deposit of refuse in sewers.
27. No person shall deposit ashes, house refuse, or any other extraneous solid matter in any sewer or drain; suitable provision must be made to intercept and prevent same passing into such sewers or drains.

Discharges from hospitals.
28. It shall not be lawful for any person to empty into any sewer or drain under the control of the Board, from any hospital, institution, or other private or public building, any solid or liquid discharges from patients suffering from typhoid or any other infectious or contagious disease, without first thoroughly disinfecting the same.

Refuse from gas or chemical works not to be discharged into sewers.
29. It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge into any sewer or drain any gaseous liquid or solid of an explosive nature.

Street gullies not to be connected with sewers without permission.
30. No person shall connect any gullies or pits for the disposal of road drainage into any sewer or drain under the control of the Board without first obtaining the consent of the Board to such connection or connections being made.

Cesspool or privy not to be connected with sewer.
31. No person shall cause or permit any cesspool or privy to be connected with any sewer of the Board, or with any sewer or drain communicating or intending to communicate with any sewer of the Board, and no person shall cause or permit the contents of any such cesspool or privy to be emptied into any such sewer or drain.

Cesspools or privies to be emptied, disinfected, and purified.
32. The owner or occupier of any house, tenement, or lands with which is connected any cesspool or privy shall cause such cesspool or privy to be emptied and disinfected, and shall substitute therefor a proper water-closet, constructed according to this by-law of the Board; and every such owner or occupier shall cause the part of such cesspool or privy which shall be under the pan and S trap of such water-closet to be bricked up or supported as directed, and filled up with clean sand or other suitable material, and no such cesspool shall be filled up before being inspected by an officer of the Board. Floors of all water-closets to be left in good and sound condition.

Place of communication with sewer.
33. No person shall make any connection with any sewer of the Board, or with any sewer or drain communicating therewith, at any other place than shall be approved of by the Board, the Board itself reserving absolutely the right to connect with all main sewers vested in it, by its own workmen, and charging therefor, as is elsewhere provided.

Size of house-drains.
34. Every owner or occupier of any house, tenement, or lands shall cause every house-drain of such house, tenement, or lands to be not less than 4 in. in diameter, and to be constructed of glazed stoneware or cast-iron pipes of the best quality, and shall not cause or permit any soft-burnt, cracked, crooked, or distorted pipes to be used.

Houses to be provided with sinks and appliances.
35. Every owner or occupier of any house, tenement, or lands shall cause such house, tenement, or lands to be provided with a sink or yard gully, for kitchen and house-slops, and of a design approved by the Board, and fitted with traps and connected with the drains of such house, tenement, or lands, and shall cause all inlets of such sink or yard-gully to be protected with suitable gratings. Each house shall have a separate sink or yard-gully.

Soil-pipes and appliances to be outside buildings.
36. No person shall cause or permit any soil-pipe from water-closet, or any waste-pipe from any lavatory, urinal, or other sanitary fitting, to be fixed or to be within any house or tenement, and not otherwise unless by special permission granted by the Board.

Soil-pipes.
37. The owner or occupier of any house or tenement shall cause all soil-pipes to be placed outside the walls thereof, and shall cause the construction of every soil-pipe with any closet, urinal, lavatory, or other sanitary fitting inside such house or tenement to be or be made as short and straight as possible.
(a.) He shall cause every soil-pipe to be ventilated by being carried up above the roof of such house or tenement in such manner as the Board shall in each case direct.
(b.) No person shall cause or permit to be fixed or used any soil-pipe which shall be less than 4 in. internal diameter, or any continuation thereof for ventilation which shall be less than 4 in. internal diameter.
(c.) No person shall cause or permit to be fixed any soil-pipe which is not of cast-iron or lead, and connected with the sewer or drain in such manner as the Board shall in each case approve of, and no person shall fix, or cause or permit to be fixed, any intervening trap on any soil-pipe.

Waste-pipes to discharge over trap.
38. The owner or occupier of every house or tenement shall cause all waste or overflow pipes from sinks, baths, cisterns, and all other such pipes to be brought outside of the house by the shortest possible route, and then discharge over or into the side of a properly ventilated disconnector trap. He shall, when directed, cause every such pipe to be protected by a flap valve.

Seats of water-closets to be removable.
39. The owner or occupier of every house or tenement shall cause the seats of all water-closets connected therewith to be so constructed that the same may be easily removed, in order that every part of the closet may be inspected with facility.

Traps of indoor closets to be provided with inspection-caps.
40. The trap of every indoor closet shall be provided with an inspection-cap and ventilation-pipe 2 in. in diameter from or beyond the top of the trap to the main ventilator outside the building, or to the soil-pipe above the highest inlet into same.

Sinks or gullies inside buildings.
41. No person shall cause or permit any sink or gully to be constructed or be inside any buildings unless where approved of and in the manner directed by the Board.

Ventilating-openings to be protected.
42. The owner or occupier of every house or tenement shall cause all outlets to the drains of such houses or tenement or openings for ventilators to be efficiently protected by proper gratings of ample area, and he shall cause the aggregate area of the apertures in all gratings covering any ventilation opening to be not less than the sectional area of the pipe or drain to which such grating is fixed.

Drains to be self-cleansing.
43. The owner or occupier of every house or tenement shall cause every drain of such house or tenement to be so arranged as to be self-cleansing, in order that it may remain at all times free from deposit, and where such cannot be effected without flushing, proper flushing apparatus shall be provided in manner directed by the Board.

Rain-water pipes not to be connected direct with sewer.
44. The owner or occupier of every house, tenement, or land shall cause all rain-water downpipes thereof to discharge over or into the side of an open gully provided with a proper trap and ventilator, or on to an open channel leading to such trap and ventilator, and shall not permit the same to communicate direct with any drainpipe, unless by special permission granted by the Board.