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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-1810 - Amending Section of the Santa Ana Municipal Code and Adding Sections to the Santa Ana Municipal Code to Adopt the Uniform Mechanical Code ...CDG :mb 6/14/85 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1810 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTION 8-556 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING SECTIONS 8-558 AND 8-559 TO THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE UNIFORM MECHANICAL CODE, 1982 EDITION, AS AMENDED BY REFERENCE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That section 8-556 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 8-556. Adoption by reference. There is adopted by the city that certain code known as the Uniform Mechanical Code, 1982 Edition, together with the appendices and code standards therein, and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are deleted by the amendments set forth in this article, of which said code not less than three (3) copies have been and are on file in the office of the clerk of the council of the city. The said code is adopted and incorporated as fully as if set forth at length herein as provided for in Section 419 of the Charter of the city, and subject to all amendments set forth in this article, shall be in effect within the City of Santa Ana from the effective date of this ordinance. Any provision of this article amending the "Mechanical Code" or "Uniform Mechanical Code" shall be construed as amending the said adopted code, 1982 Edition, including such provisions enacted prior to the enactment of this ordinance and not thereafter repealed. The said adopted code, 1982 Edition, as thus amended, together with all other provisions of this article, shall be known as the Mechanical Code of the City of Santa Ana. SECTION 2: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered § 8-558, which said section ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1810 PAGE TWO reads as follows: Sec. 8-558. permits--Required. (Sec. 301) Section 301 of the Mechanical Code is hereby amended to read as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to make any~installations, alterations, repair, replacement or remodel any mechanical system regulated by this code except as permitted in subsection (E) of this section, or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a separate mechanical permit for each separate building or structure, each apartment unit, each condominium unit, each office suite, and each unit in a commercial or industrial building. SECTION 3: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 8-559, which said section reads as follows: Sec. 8-559. Violations and penalties. Any person violating any provision of the Mechanical Code shall be punished as provided in section 1-8 of the Santa Rna Municipal Code, and in addition, all procedures for the correction of illegal conditions shall apply. Each separate day or any portion 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 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 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1810 PAGE THREE 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 one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of 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 eighty (180) days. Before such work can be recommenced a new permit shall be first obtained to do so, and the fee therefor shall be 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 year. Applications for which no permit is issued within one hun- dred eighty (180) days following the date of application shall expire by limitation, and plans and other data submitted for re- view may thereafter be returned to the applicant or destroyed by the building official. In order to renew action on an application after expiration, the applicant shall resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee. SECTION 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of compe- tent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentence, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 5: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and ORDINANCE NO. NS-1810 PAGE FOUR obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. ADOPTED this 18th day of November , 1985. Daniel E. Griset Mayor ATTEST: C~'~e o fC ' t~eUYco~nnc i ~/ COUNCILMEMBERS: Griset Aye Acosta Aye Hart A~e Johnson Aye Luxembourger Aye McGuigan Aye Young Aye APPROVED AS TO FORM: Edwar~g~.~_~per City Attor~y