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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 1975-1489 Public sewers; repeals Ord. 784 and 1159 (14.06)The City Council of the City of National City DOES ORDAIN as follows: SECTION 1. Ordinances Repealed. Ordinance No. 784 and Ordinance No. 1159 of the ordinances of the City of National City, California, are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Private Property Defined. For the purposes of this Ordinance, "private property" shall mean all those lands lying within the corporate limits of National City, except those lands owned or controlled by the City of National City and shown as a separate lot of parcel on maps filed on either the County Recorder's Office or the County Clerk's Office, or on re - subdivisions authorized by the City Council as provided in ordinances of the City of National City regulating such re -subdivisions or lot splits as shown on the current tax roll for said city. SECTION 3. Sewer Lateral Defined. For the purposes of this Ordinance, "sewer lateral" or "lateral" shall be defined as that part of any sewer extending from the sewer main in a public street, alley, easement or right-of-way to private property for the use of such property. SECTION 4. Person Defined. For the purpose of this Ordinance, "person" shall mean and include an individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation. SECTION 5. Sewer System Service Defined. For the purpose of this Ordinance, "sewer system service", also referred to herein as "service" shall be defined to be the making available of the city sewer system to any parcel of property by the City of National City. SECTION 6. Public Sewers Defined. The words "public sewers" shall mean and include any and all publicly owned pipe lines, manholes, lamp holes, inspection holes, cleanouts, accessories, equipment or appurtenances to any and all devices used for the disposal of the sewage of the City of National City within the boundary lines of streets, alleys, rights -of -way or public ease- ments. SECTION 7. Property Assessed — Fees. If private property which is sought to be connected with a public sewer system has actually been assessed to pay for the cost and expenses of the construc- tion of such public sewer system, or it said public sewer system has been con- structed for the use of said private property by private contract by on owner of said private property, or his assignor, at no expense to the City of National City, either partially or wholly, from its funds or from money derived from a bond issue authorized by an election the Director of Building and Housing shall issue a permit upon the payment of connection and permit fees as set forth in this Ordinance. SECTION 8. City to Make Sewer Con- nections. It shall be unlawful for any person other than the City of National City, its officers, agent, permittees and/or employees to connect any pipe, drain or sewer with, or to open or penetrate any public sewer in the City of National City, or to damage, remove, or open any portion of any manhole, flushtank, lamp hole, inspection pipe or any other par or appurtenance to any public sewer All sewer laterals from mains to th property line shall be constructed by the City of National City. All connec- tions to the sewer main in a public street, alley, easement or right-of-way, shall be made by the City of National City. SECTION 9. Sewer Laterals— Fees That in addition to any fee or other charge which the City may make for connecting with the public sewer, the ORDINANCE NO. 1489 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION, USE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWERS IN THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, AND THE CONSTRUCTION, USE AND CONNECTION OF HOUSE LATERALS THERETO, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO.S 784 & 1159 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES THAT MAY BE IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE owner or applicant for such connection shall pay to the City of National City for constructing and laying a sewer lateral as defined in Section 3, the following charges: Permit for connection with public sewer $ 5.00 Street connection — four inch (4") 145.00 For each foot in excess of 45 feet — four inch 3.50 Street connection — six inch (6)") 170.00 For each foot in excess of 45 feet — six inch 4.00 Alley connection — four inch (4") 45.00 For each foot in excess of 15 feet — four inch 3.50 Alley connection — six inch (6") 50.00 For each foot in excess of 15 feet — six inch 4.00 Easement connection on private property 25.00 The above charges are for normal installations. Under abnormal conditions, additional appropriate charges shall be established by the City Engineer. Abnormal condi- tions include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: a) Deep sewer laterals in excess of eight feet (8') b) Difficult or unusual excavations c) Unusual obstructions or hazards d) Sewer connections where the con- duit is larger than six inches (6") inside diameter. e) If, in the opinion of the City Engineer, the estimated sewage flow from any property is in excess of 1,000 gallons per day, the fee shall be determined by multiplying the estimated flow, in gallons per day, by $0.653. The City Engineer may further require the installa- tion of a flow meter. If actual flows exceed the estimated flow, an adjustment to the fee may also be required as determined by the City Engineer. In case a connection is made to a public sewer where the sewer main or service lateral is already installed across private property, the property owner shall install the building sewer to the sewer main and shall uncover the existing sewer main so that a connec- tion can be made, which connection shall be made by the City of National City. SECTION 10. Property Frontage Fees. In addition to any fee for a permit or other charge which the City may make for connecting to the public sewer system, the owner or applicant (exclud- ing those exempted by Section 7) for sewer system service to any property whose dimensions parallel to the street are 50 feet or less, shall upon making application for such service, pay the minimum sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) to the City of National City. Where the subject property is over 50 feet in width the minimum charge shall be six dollars (6.00) per foot of frontage. SECTION 11. Sewer Connections — Approval Required. The size and number of service laterals serving any property shall be determined by the Director of Building and Housing and such laterals shalt be connected only upon the order of the Director of Building and Housing after the appropriate fees contained in Sections 9 & 10 of this Ordinance have been paid. The building sewer shall be inspected and approved prior to connec- tions to the service lateral. SECTION 12. Sewers Appeal Board Established. There is hereby created a Sewers Appeal Board consisting of the Director of Building and Housing, the City Engineer and a representative of the City Council to be appointed by the Mayor. Any applicant for service from the sewer system who presents a special or peculiar case may be referred to the Sewers Appeal Board by the Director of Building & Housing for decision on the amount of charge to be made in addi- tion to the Three Hundred Dollars (S300.00) minimum charge, or any applicant who desires to present a plan of sewer service different from the number of services required by the Director of Building & Housing may make a written request to the Sewers Appeal Board for a decision. Nothing in this section shall deny the right of appeal of the applicant to the City Council of the City of National City for the fixing of the charges, provided, however, that such appeal to the said City Council is made within 30 days from the date of the decision rendered by the Sewers Appeal Board and the decision of the City Council on any such appeal shall be final. SECTION 13. Public Sewer Availability It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association, or cor- poration, to install, or cause to be installed a septic tank, a cesspool, or other device or devices for disposal of sewage in the City of National City where the building to be connected is within two hundred feet of the available sewer system after the effective date of this ordinance. The sewer system shall be deemed available where a building connection pipe may be laid with a fall of one quarter inch per foot. SECTION 14. Separate Lateral Required — Sewer Installations. Every building with plumbing fixtures shall be separately and independently connected to the public sewer; except where one building stands in the rear of another building on an interior lot, the building drain from the front building may be extended to the rear building or where two or more buildings on the same property under one ownership and not subdividable may be served by a single adequately sized connection to the public sewer. Whenever a sewer line is to be installed at the cost of the property owners on or across any street, alley, easement or right-of-way or any ground dedicated to the City for any purpose, or across private property, and when said sewer is to be connected to the public sewer, or may become a part of the public sewer system, the sewer line shall be installed under the super- vision of the City Engineer and the City shall have the right to make extensions and connections thereto at all times. Before any lateral connections are made to any such sewer, so installed by property owners, a permit thereof must be taken out and the regular fees paid. SECTION 15. Material — Building Sewer Lines. Every building sewer or drainage piping installed within the property lines in which is to be connected with the public sewers, shall be of approved materials listed in the Uniform Plumb- ing Code and shall be installed ac- cording to the listing of their approval. Piping conveying industrial, chemical, or process wastes from their point of origin to sewer connected pretreatment fa- cilities, shall be of such material and design as to adequately perform its intended function to the satisfaction of the Director of Building & Housing. Drainage discharge piping from pre- treatment facilities or interceptors shall conform to standard drainage installa- tion procedures. The installation and testing of approved materials shall be in accordance with installation and testing procedures contained in the Uniform Plumbing Code. No connection in any manner shall be made between drainage piping or sewers on private 1489 property and the public sewers until inspected and approved by the Director of Building & Housing. SECTION 16. Property Owner to Maintain Building Connection. The building sewer or drainage piping installed within property lines and the building connection serving such build- ing sewer or drainage piping shall be maintained by the property owner. SECTION 17. Extra Inspection Fees. When any person shall have violated or failed to comply with any of the requirements of this Ordinance or when, through any such violation or failure to comply by any person doing the work, it is necessary to make extra inspections of the work, there shall be charged said person a fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00) for such extra inspection made necessary on account of such violation or failure to comply. SECTION 18. Sewage Disposal — Prohibited Matter Except as provided in Section 19 of this Ordinance it shall be unlawful for any person to deposit by any means whatsoever, into any plumbing fixture, floor drain, interceptor, sink, receptacle, or device which is connected to the drainage system, public sewer, private sewer, septic tank or cesspool, any ashes, cinders, solids, rags, inflammable, poisonous or explosive liquids or gases, oils, grease or any other organic, chemical, or industrial waste that may be detrimental to the public sewer system or detrimental to the functioning of the sewage treatment plant. No cesspool, septic tank, seepage pit or drai•nfield shall be connected to any public sewer or to any building sewer leading to such public sewer. Unless approved by the Director of Building & Housing no rain, surface, or subsurface water shall be connected to or discharged into any sewerage system. Roofs, inner courts, vent shafts, light wells or similar areas having rain water drain, shall discharge to the outside of the building or to the gutter and shall not be connected to the sewerage system. SECTION 19. Industrial Waste Disposal — Permit Required. Chemical or industrial liquid wastes shall not be discharged into the public sewer system without obtaining an industrial waste permit and the ap- proval of the Director of Building and Housing to discharge such wastes into the public sewer. Wastes that are known to be detrimental to the public sewer system or detrimental to the functioning of the sewage treatment plant shall be treated and disposed of as found necessary and directed by the Director of Building and Housing or other authority having jurisdiction. Solid wastes resulting from the preparation of any food or drink pre- pared on premises where such foods or drinks are served or proposed to be served for consumption, may when properly ground through a food waste disposer be discharged into the public sewer system. Interceptors (including grease, oil and sand, etc.) shall be provided when in the judgement of the Director of Building and Housing, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease, flammable wastes, sandy solids, acids or alkaline sub- stances or other ingredients harmful to the building drainage system, the public or private sewer or to public or private sewage disposal facilities. SECTION 20. Sewer Lateral Policy. The property owner is responsible for the building connection line from the house to the main. The owner or occu- pant is responsible for calling a li- censed private plumbing contractor if a stoppage occurs. City crews cannot re- spond to requests for service unless the owner or occupant has first obtained the service of a licensed plumber. If the licensed plumber is unsuccessful in cleaning the line and in his opinion determined that the stoppage ns locaof ted in the right-of-way Po e building connection, the plumber shall call the Department of Public 1Work and request City service. The plumber shall wait on site until the City crews arrive in order to describe and verify the situation. Whenever it is necessary for the City to relieve stop -ups in laterals, if the obstruction is in the streetbetween the and sewer main and the property is due to waste matter which should not have been placed owner of such property shall pay to the City of National City the cost of the removal of such obstruction. SECTION 21. Sewer Connections — Permit Required. No connection to the public sewers shall be made, or any. work done thereon, either in the public streets or alleys, or within property lines, until a permit for such construction and work has been issued therefor by the City. Permits for sewer connection shalle issued only to persons who have p b ing already installed in their premises, or have taken out permits therefor under the provisions of City Ordinances. Ap- plications for permits required by the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be made to the Director of Building and vote, to -wit: Housing. Ayes: Councilmen Camacho, Della, SECTION 22. Disposition of Sewer Pinson, Reid. Connection Fees Collected. Nays: Councilmen Morgan Any money collected under the pro- Absent: Councilmen None visions of this Ordinance shall be Abstain: Councilmen None credited as follows: (1) Permit inspec- AUTHENTICATED BY: KILE MORGAN tion and connection fees to the General Fund of the City of National City. (2) Mayor of the City of SeerNational City, California Rese vesystem Fund of the chargesCity of to e National IONE MINOGUE CAMPBELL City. City Clerk of the City of 'Upon the receipt of an application National City, California for a permit under the provisions of I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing this Ordinance, the Director of Building ordinance e inen nce' was not tdfinally ys had adopted until and Housing provisions ifthe hereof,sais in stween the day of its introduction and thebe- eofe with been pi ids and r, the day of its final passage, to wit, on fee has paid to the Treasurer, issue a permit to the owners of the December 16, 1975 and on December 23, property to be served, in triplicate, one 1975, copy to be delivered to the permittee, I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT said one copy to be kept in his office and ordinance was read in full prior to its one copy to be delivered to the City final passage or that the reading of said Engineer. ordinance in full was dispensed with by SECTION 23. City Engineer to Perform a vote of net less then a majority of Work Authorized by Permit. the members elected to the Council, Upon the issuance of a permit under and that there was available for the the provisions of this Ordinance, the consideration of each member of the Council and the public prior to the day City called shall permit,d with the of its passage a written or printed work called for by the and upon copy of said ordinance. completion shall file with the City I FURTHER Cinance. that the above Engineer a copy that permit with n and foregoing is a full, true and correct notation thereon that the work has been copy of ORDINANCE NO. 1489 of the completed and the connection made and Cit of Ilona), and iCity, passed a the date of completion, together with ti City.- o by t until said City nd on an itemized statement of the cost December 23, 5• thereof, and accurate location of same. ( e---- lay out any work called for by any permit issued hereunder. SECTION 25. Public Sewer Construc- tion — Approval Required, Connection Required. All public sewers constructed and conduits leading thereto installed under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be left uncovered until the City Engineer has given permission to cover the same. Existing buildings within 200 feet of the available City sewer system sewer shall be connected to the City system at such times as the private sewersystem of liquidand solid nfails ris e thedisposalwastes.- SECTION 26. Violations — Penalties. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed a violator of this Ordinance and shall be subject to all penalties provided under law. In additionsuch violators may be subject to penalty provisions contained within the Business and Professions Code of the State of California and enforced by the Registrar of Contractors. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 23rd day of December, 1975. S/KILE MORGAN Mayor ATTEST: S/IONE MINOGUE CAMPBELL City Clerk Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of National City, California, on December 23, 1975 by the following SECTION 24. Sewer Permits —Records S/I0 E MINOGU _AM BE to be Maintained. ay Clerk of the City It shall be the duty of the Director Natienol City, Californ of Building and Housing to keeps n fild. le t saAND' I ERE Yuly p"-RTIF d that h t the he all records of sewer permits- shall be the duty of the City Engineer t law. to plat sewer lines constructed here- under on the plats in his office. He shall, when necessary or requested by the Director of Building and Housing City Clerk of the City National City, Co!ifor