HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-2078 - Adopting 1988 Edition of Uniform Plumbing Code with AmendmentsORDINANCE NO. NS- 2078
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5/9/90
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
ADOPTING THE 1988 EDITION OF THE UNI-
FORM PLUMBING CODE WITH AMENDMENTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That section 8-290 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-290. Adoption by reference.
There is adopted by the city that certain code known
as the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical
Officials Uniform Plumbing Code, 1988 Edition, and the
whole thereof, including the appendices thereto, save and
except that portion entitled "Part 1, Administration."
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. Any provision of this article
amending the "Plumbing Code" or "Uniform Plumbing Code"
shall be construed as amending the above-said code edition,
including such provisions enacted prior to the adoption of
the above-said code edition and not thereafter repealed.
The above-said code edition as thus amended, together with
all other provisions of this article, shall be known as the
plumbing code of the City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 2: That section 8-307 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-307. violations and penalties.
Any person violating any provision of the plumbing
code shall be punished as provided in section 1-8 of the
Santa Ana 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.
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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 building official under
the provisions of this code shall expire by limitation and
become null and void if the building or work authorized by
such permit is not commenced within 180 days from the date
of such permit, or if the building or work authorized by
such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after
the work is commenced for a period of 180 days. Before
such work 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 original
plans and specifications for such work; and provided
further that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded
one year. In order to renew action on a permit after
expiration, the permittee shall pay a new full permit fee.
Any permittee holding an unexpired permit may apply
for an extension of the time within which he may commence
work under that permit when he is unable to commence work
within the time required by this section for good and
satisfactory reasons. The building official may extend
the time for action by the permittee for a period not
exceeding 180 days upon written request by the permittee
showing that circumstances beyond the control of the
permittee have prevented action from being taken. No
permit shall be extended more than once.
SECTION 3: That section 8-309 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-308. Permit required.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to install,
remove, alter, repair or replace or cause to be installed,
removed, altered, repaired or replaced any plumbing, gas
or drainage piping work or any fixture or water heating or
treating equipment in a building or premises without first
obtaining a permit to do such work from the administrative
authority.
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(b) A separate permit shall be obtained for each
building, structure, each office suite, and each unit in a
commercial or industrial building.
(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 4: That section 8-313 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-313. Expiration of plan review.
Applications for which no permit is issued within 180
days following the date of application shall expire by
limitation, and plans and other data submitted for review
may thereafter be returned to the applicant or destroyed
by the building official. The building official may extend
the time for action by the applicant for a period not
exceeding 180 days upon request by the applicant showing
that circumstances beyond the control of the applicant
have prevented action from being taken. No application
shall be extended more than once. In order to renew action
on an application after expiration, the applicant shall
resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee.
SECTION 5: That sections 8-392, 8-399, 8-403, 8-404, 8-405,
8-406, 8-407, 8-408, and 8-409 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 6: 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
competent 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, sent-
ence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconsti-
tutional.
SECTION 7: 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
cc~mitted 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,
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required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any
ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder apper-
taining shall continue in full force and effect.
ADOPTED this 17th day of September
, 1990.
ATTEST:
Mayor
Janice C. G~y
Clerk of the Council
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young
Acosta
Griset
May
McGuigan
Norton
Pulido
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Aye
Aye
A?
A?
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney