A. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to lay or to engage in or carry on the business of pipe laying on private premises within the city unless such person, firm or corporation shall have first registered at the office of the public works director and obtained a certificate of registration from the public works director, as provided in this section. This section shall not be construed as prohibiting an owner of any lot from making his own house connection sewer on said lot, provided he has previously paid the inspection and connection fee and secured a permit therefor from the public works director, and complied with all the requirements as to material, laying and inspection provided in this section.

B. Every person, firm or corporation desiring to have his, its or their name registered in the register shall make application, in writing, to the public works director, at the office of the public works director, on blanks furnished for that purpose, giving the name and address of such person, firm or corporation; if a firm, the name of the members thereof, and if a corporation, the names of the officers of such corporation; together with such other information as may be deemed necessary by the public works director. Such application shall be verified upon oath; if a corporation, by an officer thereof; if a copartnership, by a member of such copartnership; or if an individual of such individual or by the duly authorized agent of any such person, firm or corporation.

C. Every application must be accompanied by a bond for five hundred dollars, made payable to the city, executed by the application and surety company whose bonds are accepted and approved by the city. Such bond shall be for the faithful performance of the work and to indemnify against mechanic’s liens, and must be joint and several and condition that the whole or any part of the five hundred dollars shall be paid to any person who has suffered loss or damage by reason of any violation or any ordinance of the city or the nonpayment of labor, or nonpayment for materials, or nonperformance or unworkmanlike performance of his or its contract. Such bond shall not be void upon the first recovery, but may be sued and recovered on from time to time by any person, in his own name, who has thus suffered loss or damage, until the whole of the five hundred dollars is exhausted.

D. Every applicant shall pay to the city an examination fee of one dollar.

E. Every applicant who is an individual for himself, and the constructing and supervising member of a copartnership for the copartnership, and the constructing and supervising officer of a corporation for the corporation, must take and successfully pass an examination before a committee appointed by the city council. In such examination, each applicant must give satisfactory evidence of a knowledge of, and skill in, the laying of pipe and the making of all necessary connections thereof and therewith, and the installing of necessary cleanouts, equal to that required of a journeyman plumber for the doing of the same work when using cast-iron pipe.

F. Every applicant, upon successfully passing the examination, shall pay to the city a license fee of twenty-five dollars for the first year and ten dollars a year for each annual renewal thereof.

G. Every applicant, upon successfully passing the examination, shall furnish to the city and file with the public works director satisfactory evidence of having secured adequate public liability insurance protecting the city from damages and liability of every kind.

H. It is the duty of the public works director to issue a certificate of registration, and every such certificate shall state the name and business address of the applicant and the date upon which the certificate expires, and shall certify that the person, firm or corporation named in the certificate has complied with the provisions of this chapter, and that such person, firm or corporation is deemed to be registered, and is entitled to conduct and engage in the business of laying of sewer pipe for the period specified in the certificate.

I. Every certificate issued as provided in this section shall become null and void immediately upon the first conviction of the person, firm or corporation named in such certificate for violating any of the provisions of this chapter, and thereafter it shall be unlawful for any such person, firm or corporation to engage in or carry on the business of pipe laying or to represent himself, if a person, as being registered, or if a firm or corporation, to represent itself as a firm or corporation as being registered. (Ord. 576, 2008; Ord. 199 §21, 1975. Formerly 13.12.220).