HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2146 ORDINANCE NO. 2146
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
BY REPEALING SECTION 17. 44.175, AMENDING SEC-
TIONS 17. 44 .010 AND 17. 44.130; AND ADDING
SECTION 17. 44 . 230, ALL PERTAINING TO THE UNI-
FORM PLUMBING CODE
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. Section 17. 44.175 of the Huntington Beach
Municipal Code is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2 . The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by amending Sections 17. 44.010 and 17. 44.130 to read
as follows :
17. 44. 010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted by the city
council of the city of Huntington Beach that certain code known
as the Uniform Plumbing Code, compiled by the International
Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials , being par-
ticularly the 1976 edition thereof, and the whole theredf in-
cluding the appendices and the standards thereof, but deleting
Part 1, Administration, 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 Huntington Beach. Such code, and amendments thereto,
is hereby adopted and incorporated, pursuant to Section 50022 . 2
et seq. of the California Government Code, as fully as though set
out at length herein for the purpose of prescribing regulations
governing the installation, alteration, repair and maintenance of
plumbing and drainage systems . From the date on which this
chapter takes effect, the provisions of said code, together with
amendments thereto, shall be controlling within the corporate
limits of the city of Huntington Beach.
17. 44. 130 Fees--Schedule. Every applicant shall pay for
each permit at the time of making application, a fee in accord-
ance with the following schedule, and at the rate provided for
each classification shown herein:
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SCHEDULE OF FEES
For issuing each permit . . . . . . . . . . $ 3.00
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 (inside building) . . . . . . . 2 .00
For each cesspool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .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 five (5) or more outlets ,
per outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
For each industrial waste pretreatment interceptor,
including its trap, and vent , excepting kitchen
grease interceptors functioning as fixture traps 2. 00
For installation, alteration or repair of water piping
and/or water treating equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 00
For repair or alteration of drainage or vent piping . . . 2. 00
For each lawn sprinkler system of 50 heads or less or
any one meter including backflow protection de-
vices therefor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . 00
For vacuum breakers or backflow protective devices on
tanks, vats , etc. or for installation on unpro-
tected plumbing fixtures including necessary water
piping - one (1) to four (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00
Over four (4) each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
(a) 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 re-
connection and retest of existing plumbing systems in relocated
buildings shall be based on the number of plumbing fixtures , gas
systems , water heaters , and other classifications involved.
. (b ) 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 of private sewage
disposal facilities abandoned consequent to such connection shall
be included in the building sewer permit .
(c) The fee for any lawn sprinkler system of more than
fifty (50 ) heads , storm drain system, water distribution system
or on-site sewer system shall be based on the value of the pro-
posed work and shall be as provided in Table 3-A, Huntington
Beach Building Code .
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(d) The fee for any plumbing installation for which a
permit is required but for which no fees are specified herein
shall be based on the value of the proposed work and shall be
as provided in Table No . 3-A, Huntington Beach Building Code.
(e) A food waste disposer installed at the time of the
original sink installation shall be considered as part of the
sink. Dishwashers discharging into a food waste disposer or
a separate trap shall require a separate fee .
SECTION 3. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding thereto Section 17. 44. 230 to read as follows :
17. 44. 230 Appendix H amended--Battery drainage system. A
horizontal branch, soil or waste pipe, to which two 2 or more
water closets (except blow-out type) , pedestal urinals, shower
stalls , or floor drains are connected in a battery, may be vented
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by a circuit or loop vent .
When lavatories or similar fixtures discharge above such
branches each vertical branch shall b provided con-
tinuous vent which may be connected to the circuit or loop vent
of the battery.
The circuit or loop vent of a battery drainage system shall
be installed vertically in front of the last upstream fixture.
In addition, lower floor branches serving more than three (3)
water closets shall be provided with a relief vent taken off
vertically in front of the first fixture connection.
No more than eight ( 8) water closets may be connected to
a battery drainage system. The fixture unit value for all fix-
tures shall be as listed in Tables No . 4-1 and 4-2. The hori-
zontal branch for its full length to the furthest fixture .shall
be uniformly sized as listed in Table No. 4-3, based on the
total number of fixtures .
The vent of a battery drainage system shall be sized for
the fixture unit demand of the battery system according to Table
No. 4-3 based on the total number of fixtures . The relief vent
may be wet vented with a fixture drained vertically into the bat-
tery drainage system, such vent shall be the same size as the
circuit vent it intersects .
All vents shall rise vertically to six (6) inches above the
flood level of the highest fixture on the system.
NOTE: This sytem is not approved for residential installa-
tion.
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SECTION 4 . This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the pas—
sage of this ordinance and cause same to be published within
fifteen days after adoption in the Huntington Beach News , a
weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published
in Huntington Beach, California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof hel n the 20th
day of December 19 76.
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Mayor Pro Tempore
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk City Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPRO D AS TO
CONTENT:
Cit Administrator
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Ord. No 2146
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, `the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 6th day of December
19 76 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 20th day of December 19'76 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Bartlett, Pattinson, Coen, Gibbs, Siebert, Shenkman
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
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City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
I, Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of
Huntin-'ton Beach and ex-oi-fcio Clerk of the C il,
^ouncil, do hereby certify that this ordinarc
been published
hed in the Huntington Beach News
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in accordance with the City Charter of said City.
ALICIA M. WENTW RTH
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City Clerk
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