Volume 21 · 318
Public Law 46–27
authorizing the employment of an inspector of plumbing in and for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved January 25, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the employment of an inspector of plumbing in and for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia an inspector of plumbing for said District, whose duty it shall be, to inspect all houses in. course of erection, and pass upon the plumbing and sewerage of said houses. And the health officer of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, under direction of the Commissioners, to execute and enforce
Regulations.
regulations governing plumbing, house drainage, and the ventilation of house sewers; and any person who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of the said regulations when promulgated shall be punishable by
Penalty.
a fine of from twenty-five to two hundred dollars for each and every such offense, or in default of payment of fine to imprisonment for thirty days.
Approved, January 25, 1881.