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3655FOLLOWS: ORDINANCE 140. 3655 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAIYEIM REPEALING TITLE 15, CHAPTER 15.20 OF THE ANAHEIM 11IUNI- CIPAL CODE, AND ADOPTING THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBING AND MECHANICAL OFFI- CIALS UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, 1976 EDITION, APPENDICES A, B, C, D, E, F AND G, INCLUDED, WITH AMENDMENTS THERETO; AND AMENDING TITLE 15, BY ADDING THERETO A NEW CHAPTER 15.20. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS SECTION 1. That Title 15, Chapter 15.20 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SECTION 2. That Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto a new Chapter 15.20 to read as follows: "CHAPTER 15.20 PLUMBING CODE SECTION 15.20.001 APPROVAL OF CODE The City Council does hereby find and determine as a result of investigation and tests conducted by the City and its building officials, that the Uniform Plumbing Code, 1976 Edition of the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials is an approved code for adoption by refer- ence within the meaning of Section 50022.1 of the Government Code of the State of California. SECTION 15.20.005 ADOPTION OF CODE Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 50022.1 to 50022.81 both inclusive, of the Government Code of the State of California, the City of Anaheim does hereby adopt by reference the Uniform Plumbing Code, 1976 Edition of the International Asso- ciation of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, with amendments thereto and Appendices A, B, C, D, E, F and G, inclusive; three (3) copies of said Code shall be filed in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Anaheim at least fifteen (15) days preceding the hear- ing provided for and shall be kept there for public inspection while said Code is in force; all of which copies shall be certified to be true copies by the -1- City Clerk; following the City Clerk shall, at all supply of copies of said by the public. SECTION 15.20.007 adoption of said Code, the times, maintain a reasonable Code available for purchase PURPOSE An ordinance providing for the protection of the public health and safety; re- quiring a permit and inspection for the installation or alteration of plumbing and drainage systems and providing for the collection of fees therefor; estab- lishing minimum regulations for the installation, alteration or repair of plumbing and drainage systems and the inspection thereof; and providing penalties for its violation. SECTION 15.20.008 ADMINISTRATION This ordinance shall be known as the Uniform Plumbing Code, may be cited as such and will be referred to in this ordinance as 'this Code.' SECTION 15.20.009 DELETION 'ADMINISTRATION' That Part 1 'Administration' of the Uniform Plumbing Code 1976 Edition, pages 1A through 6A is deleted. SECTION 15.20.010 APPLICATION AND SCOPE The provisions of this Code shall apply to all new construction, relocated buildings, and to any alterations, repairs, or reconstruction, ex- cept as provided for otherwise in this Code. SECTION 15.20.011 ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY Whenever the term 'Adminis- trative Authority' is used in this Code, it shall be construed to mean the Chief Building Inspector or his authorized representative. SECTION 15.20.012 ASSISTANTS Whenever the term 'Assistants' is -used in this Code, it shall be construed to mean the Senior Plumbing Inspector or Deputy Inspector or his designated representative. SECTION 15.20.013 DEPARTMENT HAVING JURISDICTION Unless otherwise provided by law, the office of the Administrative Authority shall be a part of the Planning Department. -2- SECTION 15.20.014 DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY The Administrative Authority shall maintain public office hours necessary to effi- ciently administer the provisions of this Code and amend- ments thereto and shall perform the following duties: (1) Require submission of, examine and check plans and specifications, drawings, descriptions, and/or diagrams necessary 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 permanent, accurate account of all fees for permits issued and other monies 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. (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 es- sential 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 15.20.016. (8) Keep a complete record of all the essential trans- actions of his office. SECTION 15.20.015 RIGHT OF ENTRY Whenever necessary for en- forcement of the provisions of this Code, the Chief Building Inspector or his authorized representative may enter such building or premises at all reasonable times to inspect the same or to perform any duty imposed -3- upon the Chief Building Inspector by this Code pro- vided that if such building or premises be occupied, he shall first present proper credentials and demand entry; and if such building or premises be unoccupied, he shall first make a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other persons having charge or control of the building or premises and demand entry. If such entry is refused, the Chief Building Inspector or his auth- orized representative shall have recourse to every remedy provided by law to secure entry. SECTION 15.20.016 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 de- partment having jurisdiction that any insanitary condi- tion exists or that 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 gas 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 prem- ises 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 of where a nuisance exists in any building or on a 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 of nuisance. -4- SECTION 15.20.017 VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES µY Any person, firm or corpora- tion violating any of the provisions of this Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition thereto, this Chapter may be enforced by injunction or any other ap- propriate civil remedy. Each separate day or any por- tion thereof during which any violation of this Code occurs or continues shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense and upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable as herein provided. 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 auth- orized 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 is not commenced within sixty (60) days from date of such permit, or if the work authorized by such permit is suspended or aban- doned at any time after the work is commenced for a per- iod of one hundred twenty (120) days. Before such wort: can be recommenced, a new permit shall be first obtained to do so 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 ori- ginal plans and specifications for such work and provided, further, that such suspension or abandonment has not ex- ceeded one (l) year. SECTION 15.20.018 PEPUIT REQUIRED (a.) It shall be unlawful for any person to in- stall, remove, alter, repair or replace or cause to be installed, removed, altered, repaired or replaced -5- any plumbing, gas or drainage piping work or any fix ture or water heating or treating equipment in a build- ing 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. SECTION 15.20.019 WORK NOT REQUIRING PERMIT No permit shall be required in the case of any repair work as follows: The stop- ping of leaks in drains, soil, waste or vent pipe pro- vided, however, that should any trap, drainpipe, soil, waste or vent pipe be or become defective and it be- comes 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 stop- pages 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 15.20.020 TO WHOM PERMITS 14AY BE ISSUED (a) No permit shall be issued to any person to do or cause to be done any work regulated by this Code, ex- cept to a person holding a valid unexpired and unrevoked Plumbing Contractor's Certificate of Qualification, ex- cept when and as otherwise hereinafter provided in this section. (b) A permit may be issued to a properly licensed person not acting in violation of any current contractor licensing law. (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 pur- poses including the usual accessory buildings and quar- ters in connection with such buildings in the event that any such person is the bona fide owner of any such dwell- ing 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 person- ally perform all labor in connection therewith. SECTION 15.20.021 APPLICATION FOR PERT'IIT Any person legally entitled to apply for and receive a permit shall make such applica- tion 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 Adminis- trative Authority may require plans, specifications or drawings and such other information as he may deem necessary. 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 per- mit applied for upon payment of the required fee as hereinafter fixed. SECTION 15.20.022 COST OF PERPA.IT 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 char- acter of work proposed to be done and the amount and kind in connection therewith, together with such informa- tion, pertinent thereto, as may be required. The fees which shall be paid to the Building Official as the cost of permit shall be as determined and set forth by resolutions of the City Council. Any person who shall commence 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 dou- ble 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 sat- isfaction of the Administrative Authority that such work was urgently necessary and that it was not prac- tical to obtain a permit therefor before the commence- ment of the work. In all such cases, a permit must be obtained 'as soon as it is practical to do so,' and if there be an unreasonable delay in obtaining such per- mit,,a double fee as herein provided, shall be charged. Section, a sanitary plumbing fixture or shall be construed nection and retest relocated buildings plumbing fixtures, involved. For the purpose of this plumbing outlet on or to which a appliance may be set or attached, to be a fixture. Fees for recon - of existing plumbing systems in shall be based on the number of gas systems, water heaters, etc. -7- 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 build- ing sewer by the permittee constructing such sewer. When a permit has been ob- tained to connect an exisiting building or existing work to the public sewer or to connect a new private disposal facility, backfilling or private sewage dis- posal facilities abandoned consequent to such connec- tion is included in the building sewer permit. SECTION 15.20.030 ALL WORT{ TO BE INSPECTED All plumbing and drainage sys- tems shall be inspected by the Administrative Authority to insure compliance with all the requirements of this Code. SECTION 15.20.040 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 be- fore 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 notifi- cation. SECTION 15.20.050 BOARD OF APPEALS In order to determine the suitability of alternate materials and methods of construction and to provide for reasonable interpre- tation of the provisions of this Code, there shall be, and is hereby, created a Board of Appeals. The Build- ing Official shall be an ex officio member and shall act as Secretary of the Board. The Board of Appeals shall be the City Council. The Board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for conducting its investigations and shall render all decisions and findings in writing to the Building Official with a duplicate copy to the appellant and may adopt such new legislation as is consistent therewith. SECTION 15.20.910 PLUMBING FIXTURES REQUIRED Section 910 of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 'SECTION 910 PLUMBING FIXTURES REQUIRED Each building shall be pro- vided with sanitary facilities as prescribed by the local or state department having jurisdiction. In the absence of local requirements, a recommended list of minimum facilities for various occupancies is given in Appendix C of this Code. All kitchen and food pro- cessing facilities shall be provided with garbage dis- posals.' SECTION 15.20.1008 INSTALLATION, INSPECTION AND. TESTING Section 1008 (c) of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows: '(c) Water piping installed within a building and in or under a concrete floor slab resting on the ground shall be installed in accordance with the following re- quirements: (1) Copper tubing shall be installed without joints where possible. Where joints are permitted, they shall be brazed and fittings shall be wrought copper.' SECTION 15.20.2000 APPENDIX G Appendix G of the Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended by adding thereto Gll to read as follows: 'G11. No pool heater or pool filter equipment shall be permitted in side yard or actual front yard or any open space located between the front line and the line formed by the front of any building or build- ings.' SECTION 15.20.3000 BATTERY DRAINAGE SYSTEM That Appendix H of the Uniform Plumbing Code is deleted. SECTION 15.20.4000 MODIFICATIONS The City Council reserves the right and power at its own discretion or upon the rec- ortmendation of the Chief Building Inspector to modify any of the provisions of the Plumbing Code when there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter thereof provided that the spirit of the Code shall be observed, public safety secured and substantial justice done. SECTION 15.20.5000 SEVERABILITY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this chapter of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be in- valid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other portions of this chapter independ- ent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid." SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this or- dinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City, and thirty (3.0) days from and after its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE this i Gr day Of March IF ATTEST: CITY CLERK OF THE -CITY OF ANAHEIM FAL,JR: fm is approved and signed by me 1977. ,pp MAYO OF THE C&TY OF ANAHEIM -10- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 3655 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 15th day of February, 1977, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 1st day of March, 1977, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Seymour, Kott, Roth and Thom NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: -None AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim approved and signed said Ordinance No. 3655 on the 1st day of March, 1977. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I.have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this lst day of March, 1977. '""* CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 3655 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 11th day of March, 1977. i ;r { - ,�1 CITY CLERK •idaa Suiuusja ao4aadsul•$pIg jai4D