Item 07 - Sewer System Management Plan 2025 Update

Home Browse Search

Sec. 39-52. Connection outside of a sewer district; permit required. Any lot or any building or structure on any lot located within the city, but outside of an existing sewer district or area served by a public sewer, may be connected with a public sewer, but no person shall make any such connection unless and until he shall have been granted a sewer permit for such connection and unless and until such person or the owner of such lot or parcel or his duly authorized agent, shall have paid to the agency an amount equal to that which would have been assessed to such lot or parcel had it been in the district assessed for the existing sewer to which the connection is to be made. The amount may be reduced at the discretion of the director of public works to allow for extra length of house sewer or connecting sewer if necessary. (Ord. No. NS-2921, 7, 8-1-17) Sec. 39-53. Connection permit required; determination of fee. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person shall make any sewer connection unless a permit shall have been applied for and issued by the director of public works. No permit for such connection shall be issued by the director of public works as provided in this section unless the application is accompanied by the payment of a fee to the agency in an amount which the director of public works shall determine to be the applicant's proportionate share of the cost of construction of such public sewer, as prescribed in subsection (c). (b) Whenever a main sewer line is replaced by a new line, the laterals connected to the former line shall be connected to the new line and the entire lower lateral shall be reconstructed or rehabilitated as part of the installation thereof. In such event, no permit shall be required from the owner or occupant of any existing premises thus reconnected. (c) The sewer connection fee for the applicant's proportionate share of the cost of public sewer construction shall be computed on the following basis: (1) The fee shall be an amount equal to the assessment per fixture unit, multiplied by the net increase in fixture units on the parcel or parcels for which sewer connection application is made over the total fixture units previously serviced by any sewer line to which such parcel or parcels were connected. The number of fixture units assigned to each plumbing fixture shall be as provided in the California Plumbing Code. (2) In all cases of sewer connection application for the servicing of a commercial laundry or restaurant, a fee in the amount of the standard cost per fixture unit multiplied by thirty (30) fixture units per clothes washing or dishwashing machine shall be assessed in addition to other fee assessments pursuant to subsection (c)(1). (3) The city council shall, from time to time, establish by resolution the current assessment per fixture unit and the sewer connection application fees resulting therefrom in accordance with this section. (4) All fees collected shall be deposited into the sewer connection fee fund pursuant to article VII of chapter 13. (Ord. No. NS-2921, 7, 8-1-17) Sec. 39-54. Development conditioned upon sewer line construction. The director of public works shall review building permit applications for the purpose of determining whether the proposed development would result in an overload of existing sewer line capacity. No building permit which would result in such overload shall be approved unless a sewer line of sufficient capacity be first constructed or unless the city and the applicant enter into an agreement for its subsequent construction. In determining the (Supp. No. 30) Created: 2025-01-29 11:22:14 [EST] Page 29 of 54