5195A
ORDINANCE NO. 5195
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
AMENDING SECTIONS 17.06.090 AND 17.06.100
OF TITLE 17 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL REPORTS
AND SOIL ENGINEERING REPORTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
That Section 17.06.090 of Chapter 17.06 of Title 17 of
the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended, in
its entirety, to read as follows:
1117.06.090 ENGINEERING GEOLOGICAL REPORTS
In the interest of public safety and welfare, the
applicant shall provide to the City Engineer a thorough
engineering geological investigation and report based on
the grading plan. The report shall be performed by a
licensed Engineering Geologist. Two copies of the complete
and final report shall be submitted to the City Engineer.
The City Engineer may, upon review of the geological
report, require such additional information as the City
Engineer deems necessary."
Section 2.
That Section 17.06.100 of Chapter 17.06 of Title
17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and it is hereby,
amended to read as follows:
1117.06.100 SOIL ENGINEERING REPORTS
a) In the interest of public safety and welfare,
the applicant shall submit to the City Engineer a thorough
preliminary soils report based on the grading plan.
b) The preliminary soils report may be waived,
in writing, by the City Engineer if the City Engineer
determines that, due to the knowledge the City has
regarding the soils qualities of the soils of the
subdivisions, no preliminary analysis is necessary.
c) The soils investigation shall be undertaken
by a civil engineer registered in this state, who shall
recommend any corrective action which is necessary to
prevent structural damage to each structure proposed to be
constructed in all areas where soils problems exist.
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d) If the preliminary soil report indicates the
presence of critically expansive soils or other soils
problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural
defects, a soils investigation of each lot in the
subdivision may be required.
d) The subdivision or portion thereof may be
approved where soils problems exist if it is determined
that the recommended action is likely to prevent structural
damage to each structure to be constructed. Any building
permit may be conditioned upon completion of the
recommended corrective action."
Section 3. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby
declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or
word of this ordinance of the Code, hereby adopted, be
declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of
the Council that it would have passed all other portions of
this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of
any such portion as may be declared invalid.
Section 4. SAVINGS CLAUSE
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the
repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall in any
manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances,
which violations were committed prior to the effective date
hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or
penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation
thereof. The provisions of this ordinance, insofar as they
are substantially the same as ordinance provisions
previously adopted by the City relating to the same subject
matter, shall be construed as restatements and
continuations, and not as new enactments.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 8th day of
January, 1991.
A R F T I Y N I
ATTEST:
C4YCLEMOF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance No.5195 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 18th day of December, 1990, and
that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 8th day of January, 1991, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Simpson, Daly, Pickler, Ehrle and Hunter
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Ordinance No.5195 on the 9th day of January, 1991.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal
of the City of Anaheim this 9th day of January, 1991.
CI'If CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 5195 and was published once in
the Anaheim Bulletin on the 18th day of January, 1991.
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM