$42. Compensation of members of board. The master and journeymen plumbers serving as members of such board shall severally be paid the rate of five dollars per day for each day's service when actually engaged in the performance of the duties pertaining to the office; but such compensation shall not exceed five dollars per month in a city of the third class, nor the sum of ten dollars per month in a city of the second class, nor the sum of twenty dollars per month in a city of the first class. It shall be the duty of such ex officio members of the board of examiners to discharge their duties as members of such board without compensation therefor.

843. Qualifications. All members of such board shall be citizens and actual residents of the cities in which they are appointed.

44. Powers and duties.-The several examining boards of plumbers shall have power and it shall be their duty:

I. To meet at stated intervals in their respective cities; they shall also meet whenever the board of health of such city or the mayor thereof shall in writing request them so to do.

2. To have jurisdiction over and to examine all persons desiring or intending to engage in the trade, business or calling of plumbing as employing plumbers in the city in which such board shall be appointed with the power of examining persons applying for certificates of competency as such employing or master plumbers or as inspectors of plumbing, to determine their fitness and qualifications for conducting the business of master plumbers or to act as inspector of plumbing, and to issue certificates of competency to all such persons who shall have passed a satisfactory examination before such board and shall be by it determined to be qualified for conducting the business as employing or master plumbers or competent to act as inspectors of plumbing.

3. To formulate in conjunction with the local board of health of the city or an officer, board or body performing the duties of a board of health a code of rules regulating the work of plumbing and drainage in such city, including the materials, workmanship and manner of executing such work and from time to time to add to, amend or alter the same.

4. To charge and collect from each person applying for examination the sum of five dollars for each examination made by such board, and all moneys so collected shall be paid over by the board

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monthly to the chamberlain or treasurer of such city in which such board shall be appointed.

§ 45. Examinations; conducting business without certificate prohibited. A person desiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in a city of this state as employing or master plumber, shall be required to submit to an examination before such examining board of plumbers as to his experience and qualifications for such trade, business or calling, and it shall not be lawful in any city of this state for a person to conduct such trade, business or calling, unless he shall have first obtained a certificate of competency from such board of the city in which he conducts or proposes to conduct such business.

§ 46. Registration, when required.- Every employing or master plumber carrying on his trade, business or calling in any city of this state shall register his name and address at the office of the board of health of the city in which he shall conduct such business, under such rules as the respective boards of health of each of the cities shall prescribe, and thereupon he shall be entitled to receive a certificate of such registration, provided, however, that such employing or master plumber shall at the time of applying for such registration hold a certificate of competency from an examining board of plumbers.

847. Cancellation of registration; notice.- Such registration may be canceled by such board of health for a violation of the rules and regulations for the plumbing and drainage of such city duly adopted and enforced therein, after a hearing had before such board of health and upon a prior notice of not less than ten days stating the ground of complaint and served on the person charged with the violation, but such revocation shall not be operative unless concurred in by the local board of examiners. It shall not be lawful for any person to engage in or carry on the trade, business or calling of an employing or master plumber in any of the cities of this state, unless his name and address shall have been registered in the city in which he carries on or conducts such business.

§ 48. Inspectors; qualifications; notice.-The local board of hearth or the commissioner or commissioners of the board of health, or the health department thereof, as the case may be, shall detail, designate or appoint an inspector or inspectors of plumbing, subject, however, to the provisions or limitations of law, regulating the appointment of such inspectors by such commissioner or com

missioners or board or department of health of such city. All inspectors of plumbing who are detailed, designated or appointed shall be practical plumbers and shall not be engaged directly or indirectly in the business of plumbing, during the period of their appointment. They shall be citizens and actual residents of the city in which they are appointed and before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such inspectors they shall each be required to obtain a certificate of competency from said examining board. They shall be entitled to receive compensation not exceeding five dollars per day for each day of actual service, to be fixed by the board, commission or department making such appointment.

849. Duties of inspectors; reports. The inspector or inspectors of plumbing appointed under the provisions of the preceding sections, in addition to the duties, prescribed by law, and those which may be enjoined or required by the commissioner of health, the board of health or the health department of the city in which they shall be appointed, shall be to inspect the construction and alteration of all plumbing work performed in such city, and to report in writing the results of such inspection to such commissioner of health or the board of health or the health department of their respective cities. They shall also report in like manner any person engaged in or carrying on the business of employing plumber, without having the certificate hereinbefore provided.

50. Expiration and renewals of certificates and licenses.All certificates of registration issued under the provisions of the preceding sections and all licenses authorizing connections with street sewers or water mains shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of the year in which they shall be issued, and may be renewed within thirty days preceding such expiration. Such renewals to be for one year from the first day of January in each year.

851. Notice of violation of rules.-Whenever any inspector or other person reports a violation of any of such rules and regulations for plumbing and drainage, or a deviation from any officially approved plan or specification for plumbing and drainage filed with any board or department, the local board of health shall first serve a notice of the violation thereof upon the master plumber doing the work, if a registered plumber.

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52. Notice, how served; proceedings when violations not removed. Such notice may be served personally or by mail, and if by mail it may be addressed to such master plumber at the address registered by him with such local board of health, but the failure of a master plumber to register will relieve any board of health from the requirement of giving notice of violation. Unless the violation is removed within three days after the day of serving or mailing such notice, exclusive of the day of serving or mailing, the board of health may proceed according to law.

53. Plumbing and drainage to be executed according to rules. The plumbing and drainage of all buildings, both public and private, in each of the cities of this state, shall be executed in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the local board of examining plumbers, in conjunction with the board of health for plumbing and drainage, and all repairs and alterations in the plumbing and drainage of all buildings heretofore constructed shall also be executed in accordance with such rules and regulations; but this section shall not be construed to repeal any existing provision of law requiring plans for the plumbing and drainage of new buildings to be filed with any local board of health and be previously approved in writing by such board of health and be executed in accordance therewith, except that in case of any conflict with such plans, rules and regulations of the board of examiners, the latter shall govern.

54. Office room; expenses a city charge.- Each of such examining boards of plumbers shall have power to procure suitable quarters for the transaction of business, to provide the necessary books and stationery and to employ a clerk to keep such books and record the transactions of such board. The board of estimate and apportionment or the common council of a city as the case may be shall annually insert in their tax levy a sufficient sum to meet all the expenditures incurred under the provisions of this article. The expenses incurred by the several examining boards of plumbers in the execution and performance of the duties imposed by this article shall be a charge on the respective cities and shall be audited, levied, collected and paid in the same manner as other city charges are audited, levied, collected and paid.

55. Violations how punished.-Any person violating any of the provisions of this article, or any rules or regulations of the board of health or of the examining board of plumbers in any city.

regulating the plumbing and drainage of buildings in such city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction if a master plumber, shall in addition, forfeit any certificate of competency or registration, which he may hold under the provisions thereof.

856. Issue of licenses to connect with sewers and water mains, restricted.-The commissioner of public works of any city, or the officer or officers acting in a like capacity in any of the cities of this state, and having charge of the sewers and water mains therein, shall not issue a license to any one to connect with the sewers or with the water mains of such cities, unless such person has obtained and shall produce a certificate of competency from the examining board of such city.

§ 57. Article limited. Nothing in this article shall affect or supersede any provision of chapter eight hundred and three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, relating to plumbing in the city of New York.

ARTICLE IV.

BRIDGES.

SECTION 70. Submission of proposition to borrow money.

71. Special meeting.

72. Notice of submission.

73. Ballots.

74. Polls of special meeting; certificate of result.

75. Erection of bridge; acquisition of lands.

76. Issue of bonds.

77. Lien on city property.

78. Tax for interest and principal.

79. Bridges to be free.

80. Application of article.

870. Submission of proposition to borrow money.-Whenever the common council of any city shall by resolution declare and determine that the interests of such city and the convenience of the public require that a bridge should be erected across any stream or watercourse within the corporate limits of such city, such common council is authorized to submit to the qualified electors of such city, being taxpayers, at any annual charter election held in such city, or at a special meeting of such electors, being taxpayers, held for that purpose, the proposition whether the amount needed to build such bridge shall be borrowed by such