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;18 TUESDAY MAY 27. 1958 credit against local business license taxes for similar taxes paid other jurisdictions on business done in those jurisdictions. Upon motion, duly seconded and unaminously carried, Council adopted the following ordinance amending the City's Plumbing Code: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-seventh day of May, 1958, that the Plumbing Code of the City of Martinsville be and is hereby' amended to provide that the sections of said Code hereinafter set forth shall read: Section 144. Vitrified clay pipe and other types of pipe permitted. All vitrified clay ar concrete pipe shall conform to the American Society far Testing Materials nstandard specifications for clay sewer ar concrete pipe" (serial designation C thirteen-thirty-five). In no case shall any house sewer be covered at the joints until the plumbing inspectar inspects these joints to see that they are made according to specifications as detailed herein. The Public Warks Department shall have the right to require any house sewer to be uncovered for inspection if it is back- filled in violation of this section. Section 166. New Materials Any new material placed on the market after the adoption of this code, which is approved by a recognized testing agency as meeting all the requirements of the National Bureau of Standards, and which the Department of Inspections approves being equally efficient, may be permitted. Section 216. Material '!'he house drain shall be of cast-iron and shall extend outside the outer face of the building wall a distance of five feet. The house sewer beginning at a point five feet beyond the outer face of the building wall shall be of cast iron. It is further provided that any minor repairs to or replacement of less than 60% of the house sewer may be with vitrified clay pipe. Any major repairs ar replacement of a house sever exceeding 60% of the developed length of the line shall cause the entire line to be replaced with standard weight cast iron pipe.