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10-inch pipe 45 pounds per foot. 12-inch pipe 54 pounds per foot. All cast-iron pipe must be tested to 50 pounds and marked with the maker's name. All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight. Twelve ounces of soft pig lead must be used at each joint for each inch in the diameter of the pipe. SEC. 10. WROUGHT-IRON AND STEEL PIPE.--All wrought-iron and steel pipe shall be galvanized. Fittings used for drainage must be galvanized and of recess type known as drainage fittings. All fittings used for venting shall be galvanized and of the style known as steam pattern. No plain black pipe or fittings will be permitted. SEC. 11. SUB-SOIL DRAINS.--Sub-soil drains must be discharged into a sump or receiving tank, the contents of which must be lifted and discharged into the drainage system above the cellar floor by some approved method. Where directly sewer-connected, they must be cut off from the rest of the building and plumbing system by a brass flap valve on the inlet to the catch basin and the trap on the drain from the catch basin must be water-supplied. SEC. 12. YARD AND AREA DRAINS.--All yard, area and court drains when sewer-connected must have connection not less than 4 inches in diameter. They should be controlled by one trap--the leader trap if possible. All yards, areas and courts must be drained. Tenement houses and lodging houses must have yards, areas and courts drained into sewer. SEC. 13. USE OF OLD DRAINS AND SEWERS.--Old house drains and sewers may be used in connection with new buildings or new plumbing, only when they are found, on examination by the department of building, to conform in all respects to the requirements governing new sewers and drains. All extensions to old house drains must be of extra heavy cast-iron pipe. SEC. 14. LEADER PIPES.--All building shall be provided with proper metallic leaders for conducting water from the roofs in such manner as shall protect the walls and foundations of such buildings from injury. In no case shall the water from such leaders be allowed to flow upon the sidewalk but the same shall be conducted by a pipe or pipes to the sewer. If there is no sewer in the street upon which such building fr
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