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O 117 C.S. . , ,- :) ORDINANCE NO. 117 C.S. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE ,AMENDING CHAPTER 5 OF TITLE 8 OF THE ARROYO GRANDE MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR ADOPTION OF THE 1973 UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS THERETO. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: Chapter 5 of Title 8 of the Arroyo Grande Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: Section 8-5.01 ADOPTION OF UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE For the purposes of governing and controlling the installation, alteration, repair, and inspection of, and the issuance of permits for, all plumbing and drainage systems in the City, that certain Code designated as the "Uniform Plumbing Code", 1973 Edition, published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, three (3) copies of which have been filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the City Clerk, is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of this chapter as though set forth in this chapter in full, subject, however, to the amendments, additions, and deletions set forth in this chapter, and said Code shall be known as the Plumbing Code for the City of Arroyo Grande. Section 8-5.02 APPLICATION AND SCOPE The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to all new construction, relocated buildings, and to any alterations, repairs, or reconstruction, except as provided for otherwise in this code. Section 8-5.03 ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY Whenever the term "administrative authority" is used in this code, it shall be construed to mean the Building Official or his authorized representative. Section 8-5.04 ASSISTANTS Whenever the term "assistants" is used in this code, it shall be construed to mean the Building Inspector. All "assistants" shsll have had at leas.t five (5) years as a Journeyman Plumber. Section 8-5.05 DEPARTMENT HAVING JURISDICTION Unless otherwise provided for by law, the office of the Administrative Authority shall be a part of the Planning Department. Section 8-5.06 DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY The Administrative Authority shall ,maintain public office hours necessary to efficiently administer the provisions of this code and amendments thereto ' and shall perform the following duties: l. Require submission of, examine and check plans and specifications, drawings, descriptions, and/or diagrams neces&ary to show clearly the character, kind and extent of work covered by applications for a permit and upon approval thereof shall issue the permit applied for. 2. Keep a pe:rmanent, accurate account of all fees for permits issued and other monie:s collected and received as provided by this Code, the names of the persons upon whose account the same were paid, the date and amount thereof, together with the location or premises to which they relate. 3. Administer and enforce the provisions of this code in a manner consistent with the intent thereof and shall inspect all plumbing and drainage work authorized by any permit to assure compliance with provisions of this code or amendments thereto, approving or condemning said work in whole or in part as conditions require. (3/75) ~ ') 4. Issue upon request a Certificate of Approval for any work approved by him. 5. Condemn and reject all work done or being done or materials used or being used which do not in all respects comply with the provisions of this code and amendments thereto. 6. Order changes in workmanship and/or materials essential to obtain compliance with all provisions of this code. 7. Investigate any construction or work regulated by this code and issue such notices and orders as provided in Section 8-5.08. 8. Keep a complete record of all the essential transactions of his office. 9. Transfer all fees collected by him to the proper authority provided by law to receive such funds. 10. Maintain an official register of all persons, firms or corporations lawfully entitled to carryon or engage in the business of plumbing or to labor at the trade of plumbing. Section 8-5.07 RIGHT OF ENTRY The Administrative Authority and Assistants shall carry proper credentials of their respective office, upon exhibition of which they shall have the right of entry, during usual business hours, to inspect any and all buildings and premises in the performance of their duties. Section 8-5.08 DANGEROUS AND INSANITARY CONSTRUCTION a. Any portion of a plumbing system found by the Administrative Authority to be insanitary as defined herein is hereby declared to be a nuisance. b. Whenever brought to the attention of the department h'lving jurisdiction that any insanitary conditions exist or th'lt any construction or work regulated by this code is dangerous, unsafe, insanitary, a nuisance or a menace to life, health or property or otherwise in violation of this code, the said department may request an investigation by the Administrative Authority who, upon determining such information to be fact, shall order any person, firm, or corporation using or maintaining any such condition or responsible for the use or maintenance thereof to discontinue the use or maintenance thereof or to repair, alter, change, remove or demolish same as he may consider necessary for the proper protection of life, health or property and in the case of any gas piping or gas appliance may order any person, firm or corporation supplying as to such piping or appliance to discontinue supplying gas thereto until such piping or appliance is made safe to life, health or property. Every such order shall be in writing, addressed to the owner, agent or person responsible for the premises in which such condition exists and shall specify the date or time for compliance with such order. c. Refusal, failure or neglect to comply with any such notice or order shall be considered a violation of this code. d. When any plumbing system is maintained in violation of this code and in violation of any notice issued pursuant to the provisions of this section or where a nuisance exists in any building or ona lot on which a building is situated, the Administrative Authority shall institute any appropriate action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction to prevent, restrain, correct, or abate the violation or nuisance. Section 8-5.09 VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES Each separate day or any portion thereof during which 'ilny violation of this code occurs or continues sh'lll be deemed to constitute a separate offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as herein provided. ORD. 117 C.S. - 2 - , . ~ ~ The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of any of the provisions of this code. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of this code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorized is lawful. The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans shall not prevent the Administrative Authority from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from preventing construction operations being carried on thereunder when in violation of this code or of any other ordinance or from revoking any certificate of approval when issued in error. Every permit issued by the Administrative Authority under the provisions of this code shall expire by limitation and become null and void, if the work authorized by such permit, or if the work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is commenced for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days. Before such work can be recommenced a, new permit shall be first obtained so to do, and the fee therefor shall be one-half the amount required for a new permit for such work, provided no changes have been made, or will be made in the original plans and specifications for such work; and provided, further, that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded one (1) year. Section 8-5.10 PERMIT REOUIRED a. It shall be unlawful for any person to install, remove, alter, repair or replace or cause to be installed, removed, altered, repaired or replaced any plumbing, gas or drainage piping wor~ or any fixture or water heating or treating equipment in a building or premises without first obtaining a permit to do such work from the Administrative Authority. b. A separate permit shall be obtained for each building or structure. c. No person shall allow any other person to do or cause to be done any work under a permit secured by a Permittee except persons in his employ. Sec tion 8- 5 . 11 WORK NOT REOUIRING PERMIT > No permit shall be required in the case of any repair work as follows: The stopping of leaks in drains, soil, waste or vent pipe, provided, however, that should any trap, drainpipe, soil, waste or vent pipe be or becane defective and it becomes necessary to remove and replace the same with new material in any part or parts, the same shall be considered as such new work ,and a permit shall be procured and inspection made as hereinbefore provided. No permit shall be required for the clearing of stoppages or the repairing of leaks in pipes, valves or fixtures, when such repairs do not involve or require the replacement or rearrangement of valves, pipes or fixtures. Section 8-5.12 TO WHOM PERMITS MAY BE ISSUED a. No permit shall be issued to any person to do or cause to be done any work regulated by this code, except to a person holding a valid unexpired and unrevoked Business License as a Plumbing Contractor for the City of Arroyo Grande. b. Any person performing plumbing work not exempted in Paragraph c.of this Section must hold a valid State Plumbing Contractor's License issued by the State of California. c. Any permit required by this code may be issued to any person to do any work regulated by this code in a single family dwelling used exclusively for living purposes, including the usual accessory buildings and quarters in connec- tion with such buildings in the event that any such person is the bona fide owner of any such dwelling and accessory buildings and quarters, and that the same are occupied by said owner, provided, that said owner shall personally purchase all material and shall personally perform all labor in connection therewith. Section 8-5.13 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT Any person legally entitled to apply for and receive a permit shall make such application on forms provided for that purpose. He shall give a description of the character of the work proposed to be done, and the location, ownership, occupancy and use of the premises in connection therewith. The Administrative Authority may require plans, specifications or drawings and such other informa- tion as he may deem necessary. ORD. 117 C.S. - 3 - I . ,- ') If the Administrative Authority determines that the plans, specifications, drawings, descriptions or information furnished by the applicant is in compliance with this code, he shall issue the permit applied for upon payment of the required fee as hereinafter fixed. Section 8-5.14 COST OF PERMIT Every applicant for a permit to do work regulated by this code shall state in writing on the application form provided for that purpose, the character of work proposed to be done and the amount and kind in connection therewith, together with such information, pertinent thereto as may be required. Such applicant shall pay for each permit issued at the time of issuance, a fee in accordance with the following schedule, and at the rate provided for each classification shown herein. Any person who shall cOlmnence any work for which a permit is required by this code without first having obtained a permit therefor, shall, if subsequently permitted to obtain a permit, pay double the permit fee fixed by this section for such work, provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to emergency work when it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Administrative Authority that such work was urgently necessary and that it was not practical to obtain a permit therefor before the commencement of the work. In all such cases a permit must be obtained as soon as it is practical to do so, and if there bean unreason- able delay in obtaining such permit a double fee as herein provided shall be charged. For the purpose of this section a sanitary plumbing outlet on or to which a plumbing fixture or appliance may be set or attached shall be construed to be a fixture. Fees for reconnection and retest of existing plumbing systems in relocated buildings shall be based on the number of plumbing fixtures, gas systems, water heaters, etc., involved. When interceptor traps or house trailer site traps are installed at the same time as a building sewer on any lot, no sewer permit shall be required for the connection of any such trap to an appropriate inlet fitting provided in the building sewer by the permittee construction such wewer. When a permit has been obtained to connect an existing building or existing work to the public sewer or to connect to a new private disposal facility, backfilling or private sewage disposal facilities abandoned consequent to such connection is included in the building sewer permit. SCHEDULE OF FEES For issuing each permit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 3.00 In addition--- For each plumbing fixture or trap or set of fixtures on one trap (including water, drainage piping and backflow protection therefor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2.00 For each building sewer and each trailer park sewer . . . . .$ 5.00 Rainwater systems - per drain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2.00 For each private sewage disposal system . . . . . . . . . . .$ 10.00 For each water heater and/or vent . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2.00 For each gas piping system of one (1) to five (5) outlets . .$ 2.00 For each gas piping system of six (6) or more, per outlet.....$ .50 For each industrial waste pre-treatment interceptor, including its trap and vent, excepting kitchen type grease interceptors functioning as fixture traps . . . . .$ 1.00 For installation, alteration or repair of water piping and/or water treating equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.00 For repair or alteration or drainage of vent piping . . . . .$ 2.00 For each lawn sprinkler system on anyone meter including backflow protection devices therefor . . . . . .$ 3.00 For vacuum breakers or backflow protective devices on tanks, vats, etc. or for installation on unprotected plUmbing fixtures including necessary water piping one (1) to five (5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ 2.00 Over five (5), each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$ .50 ORD. 117 C.S. - 4 - . . ~ ~ Sec tion 8- 5 .15 ALL WORK TO BE INSPECTED All plumbing and drainage systems shall be inspected by the Administrative Authority to insure compliance with all the requirements of this code. Section 8-5.16 NOTIFICATION It shall be the duty of the person doing the work authorized by the permit to notify the Administrative Authority orally or in writing, that said work is ready for inspection. Such notification shall be given not less than twenty- four (24) hours before the work is to be inspected. It shall be the duty of the person doing the work authorized by the permit, to make sure that the work will stand the tests prescribed elsewhere in this code, before giving the above notification. Section 8-5.17 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 401(a) SUBSECTION 2 Section 401 (a) Subsection 2 of said Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (2) ABS and PVC (plastic) installation shall be limited to Group I occupancies (Group I as defined in the Building Code) not more than two (2) stories in height. See tion 8- 5.18 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 613 Section 613 of said Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby &mended to read as follows: Section 613 - Vertical Wet Venting a. Vertical wet venting is limited to sections of vertical drainage piping serving not more than two fixtures set on the same floor level in private living quarters (residential uses only) and having a discharge rating of not more than two (2) units each. b. In each such installation the vertical drain shall be one (1) pipe size larger than the upper fixture inlet, but in no case smaller than the lower fixture inlet whichever is the larger, and the developed length between any two (2) such inlets shall at no time be greater than five (5) times the diameter of the intervening wet vented section. Identical fixtures installed back to back shall have their fixture inlets at the same level. c. The unit load on the cOllllDon vent serving the two (2) fixtures shall be the sum of the unit values of such fixtures. - d. Fixtures that rough-in above the floor shall not be combined with fixtures that rough-in below the floor. Section 8-5.19 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 13l0(a) Section l3l0(a) of said Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1310 (a) Water heaters generating a glow, spark or flame capable of igniting flammable vapors shall not be installed in any Group J occupancy (garage) unless such water heater is installed in a separate compartment separated from said Group J occupancy by a one hour fire resistive wall having access only from the exterior of the structure. Required combustion air must also be obtained from a source other than the Group J occupancy (garage). SECTION 2: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its passage, and within fifteen (15) days after its passage, it shall be published once, together with the names of the Councilmen voting thereon, in the Five Cities Times~Press-Recorder. ORD. 117 C.S. - 5 - -- . . -- ':) On motion of Councilman de Leon, seconded by Councilman Spier ling and on the following roll call vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Spierling, de Leon, Schlegel, Millis and Mayor Talley NOES: None ABSENT: None the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted this 11th day of March, 1975. ~. (~ ./ MAYOR ATTEST: ,-l;-____, , .1. dlLl (?~a CITY CLERK I, Ines A. del Campo, City Clerk of the City of Arroyo Grande, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 117 C.S. is a true, full and correct copy of said Ordinance I passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Arroyo Grande at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 11th day of March, 1975. I WITNESS my hand and the Seal of the City of Arroyo Grande affixed I i this 12th day of March, 1975. ! ~ ~/!. oW ~~AV I I City Clerk of the City of Ar oyo Grande I , i , , ,i (SEAL)