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Home My WebLink AboutCC ORD 1971-1284 Adopts 1970 Plumbing Code; repeals Ord. 1209 (Repealed by 1424)tA?t i3a3 OI114INANCE NO. 1284 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING, BY REFERENCE, THE UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, 1970 EDITION, AND APPENDIX A, B, C, D, AND F, DECLARING AND ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS FOR T H E INSTALLATION , MAIN- TENANCE, AND ALTERATION OF PLUMBING SYSTEMS WITHIN THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY: PROVIDING PENA L'IIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF: AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 1209 AND ALL OTHER OR- DINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH The City Council of the City �"^ of National City, California, does ordain as follows: Section 1: That Ordinance No. 1209 of the City of National City, and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 2: The City Council of the City of National City, for the purpose of prescribing regulations for the protection of the public health and safety, hereby adopts that certain cope known as the Uniform Plumbing Code and Appendix A, B, C, D, and F thereto, as copyrighted 1970 by the In- t e r national Association of Officials, being particularly the 1970 Edition thereof, save and except those portions as are herein after deleted, modified, or amended, of which code not less than three (3) copies have been and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of National City; and the same are hereby adopted and in- corporated as if fully set out at length herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the City of National City. Section 3: Section 1.1 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY AND ASSISTANTS. "Administra- tive Authority' as used in this code means the Director of Building and Housing or his duly authorized representatives. Section 4: Section 1,2 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: ASSISTANTS. "Assistants" as used in this code means building and housing inspectors or other persons authorized to act for the Director of Building and Housing. Section 5: Section 1.3 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: DEPARTMENT HAVING JURISDICTION. Unless other- wise provided for by law, the Office of the Administrative Authority shall be part of the Department of Building nd Housing. ' Section 6: Section 1.10 ( of e Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: HOMEOWNERS PERMIT. A property owner or member of �....` his immediate family may obtain a Homeowner's Plum- bing Permit to install any plumbing work and fixtures in, on, or about any residential building, located upon his own property, provided, how eve r, that such residential building shall contain not more than two (2) dwelling units, and that such owner shall personally purchase all material and shall prrsonally perform all labor in connection with such plumbing work. Prior to the issuance of a Homeowner's Plumbing Permit, the applicant for such permit shall pass an examination to verify his ability to perform such work. An examination fee in the amount of five dollars 1$5.00) shall be paid to the City Treasurer by the applicant. All plumbing work installed by authority of a Homeowner's Plumbing Permit shall comply With the standards set forth in this code and related city and California State Regulations. Section 7: Section 1.15 is hereby added to the Uniform Plumbing Code and shall read as follows: REINSPECTION FEES: When- ever it is necessary to make an extra inspection at a job site due to an applicant giving an incorrect address or wrong location in obtaining a permit required by this code, or due to faulty or defective installation, an additional fee in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be charged for eachsuch additional inspection. This section shall be in- terpreted as requiring the payment of reinspection fees only when it becomes apparent to the Administrative Authority that the inspection staff is being used to provide on-the-job supervision of the work, rather than the performance of in- spectional services provided for in this code. In all instances where it has been necessary to assess reinspection fees, no additional inspection work will be per- formed until such reinspection fees have been paid to the City Treasurer - Section 8: Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2,3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, and 2.11 of the Uniform Plumbing Code are hereby deleted. Section 9: Section 313 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS. (a) The drainage system of each new building and of new work installed in any existing building shall be separate and independent of that of any other building- except as permitted in subsection (c) herein. (b) The drainage system of each habitable building on a legally subdividable lot shall be separate and independent of that of any other building, (c) Buildings on an inside lot, having the same frontage, located on the same legally sub- divided parcel of property and constructed so that each building overlaps the prolongation of another building, may be connected to one and the same building sewer. (d) The Administrative Authority may grant deviations from the provisions of this section for condominiums, planned unit developments, apartment complexes, schools, governmental agencies, chur- ches or commercial and in- dustrial complexes, provided the property is under single ownership. Section 10: Section 409 (a) of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: DRAINAGE BELOW CURB AND ALSO BELOW MAIN SEWER LEVEL. (a) Drainage piping serving fixtures that are located below the elevation of the curb or property line, at the point where the building sewer crosses under the curb or property lines, and above the crown level of the main sewer, shall drain by gravity into the main sewer, and shall be protected from back flow of sewage by in- stalling an approved type back water valve. Section 11: Section 608 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: APPLIANCES. Appliances, devices, equipment or o t h e r apparatus not re g u 1 a r 1 y classified as plumbing fixtures, which are equipped with pumps, drips or drainage outlets, may be drained by indirect waste pipes discharging into an open receptor. No dishwashing machine shall be directly connected to a drainage system or food waste disposer without the use of an approved dishwasher air -gap fitting on the discharge side of the dishwashing machine. Section 12: Section 713 of the -Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to r ea d as follows: A food waste disposer may be installed in a two com- partment sink in a dwelling unit. One of the sink com- partments may be connected to the inlet side of the trap serving a food waste disposer by means of a continuous waste. The continuous waste connection shall be below the waste outlet of the disposer and shall be entirely above the water seal of the trap in the most direct method with a minimum number of fittings and not more than thirty (30) inches in length. The disposer connection shall be immediately over the trap inlet. This section shall apply to fixture installations in both existing and new structures as an alternate to double waste connections to sinks. Section 13: Section 911 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: TOILET ROOM REQUIRE- MENTS. (a) DRAINS. Every toilet room in food handling establish- ments or those normally ac- cessible to the public and in c o m m e r c i a l and industrial establishments, except toilets for private use, shall be equipped with an approved floor drain. This drain shall be supplied with water from the n e a r e s t lavatory, drinking fountain, or by some other approved method; connections shall be made to the house side of the trap. Such lavatory or drinking fountain shall be trapped and vented if more than ten feet (10') from the floor drain; otherwise they need not be vented. (b) ACCESS. Where there are two (2) or more places of business within 1, single building, with the exception of food handling establishments, common restrooms, one for each sex, may be provided. The entrances for such restrooms shall open on a common ac- cessway. Section 14: Section 1107 (a) of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: CLEANOUTS. Cleanouts shall be installed in every building sewer at the junction with the building drain outside the building, which cleanouts s'hali terminate at grade or under approved cover plates. Ad- d i t i o n a l building sewer cleanouts shalt be installed at intervals not to exceed one hundred (100') feet in straight runs. Section 15: Section 1107 (g) is hereby added to the Uniform Plumbing Code to read as follows: PROPERTY LINE CLEAN - OUT. A cleanout s h all be installed in each building sewer line at the point of connection with public sWei. The rise for said cleanout shall be installed as close to the property line as possible by the use of wye or sanitary tee fit- tings and two (2) one -eighth bends. The property line cleanout shall be made accessible at all times as set forth in sub- paragraph (a) of this section. Section 16: Section 1206 (c) (1) of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby revised to read as follows: R 0 D G FI PIPING INSPEC- TION. This inspection shall include an air pressure test, at which time the gas piping shall stand a pressure of not less than ten (10) pounds per square inch gauge pressure, and shall hold this pressure for a length of time, satisfactory to the Administrative Authority, but in no case less than fifteen (15) minutes, with no per- ceptible drop in pressu Welded piping, piping two rid one-half inches (2%") of lar or piping carrying gas pressures in excess of fourteen (14") inches water column pressure, shall be tested with a recording gauge. All necessary apparatus for con- ducting tests shall be furnished 1284 by the permit holder. When recording gauge tests are required, they shall be made at pressures not less than sixty pounds (60 lbs) per square inch. The tests shall continue for a period of time acceptable to the inspector. Recording' gauge tests shall be started and completed in the presence o1'. the Inspector. Charts shall be identified in a manner acceptable to the Building Inspection Department and shall contain, but not be limited to, the following in- formation: (1) Date and time test was started; (2) Name of permittee and permit number; (3) Date and time test was completed; (4) Identity of plumbing eon- t r actor and journeyman responsible for the test, and (5) Identity of the Inspector. (c) (2) FINAL GAS IN- SPECTION. This inspection shall be made after all piping authorized by the permit has been installed and afterall portions thereof which are to be covered or concealed are so concealed, and after all fixtures and appliances to be installed have been attached thereto. Section 17. PENALTY. A violation of any part of this ordinance shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for six months and, or, a fine of $500.00. Section 18. SEVERABILITY, If any section subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of com- p e tent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining por- tions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this code and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof be declared invalid or un- constitutional. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of National City, California, this 21st day of September, 1971, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES: Councilmen Camacho, Hogue, Reid, Waters, Morgan NAYS: Councilmen None ABSENT: Councilmen None Kile Morgan Mayor of the City of National City, California ATTEST: Ione Minogue City Clerk I hereby approve the foregoing Ordinance this 21st day of September, 1971. Kile Morgan Mayor of the City of National City. California I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a f' ll and true e y f Ordinance No. 1284 of th# Or 'nances of t'+e "-_ f tnal ty, California, as ad to eii by the City Ctum"il of said ity, and approved by e 21st day/ o'f September, 197 (S' ned) Ione Minngue C' y Clerk of the City of tienal City, California Seal) NC541C 9-30-i1 AND I 'HEREBY CERTIFY` that the same has been duly publish s(i airording to law. City Clerk, City of National City, Califo