ORDINANCE 127ORDINANCE N0. 127
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, MAKING CERTAIN RULES AND REGU-
LATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE USE OF THE
MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM OF SAID CITY; MAKING
CERTAIN REGULATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO
CONNECTIONS WITH SAID SEWER SYSTEM; AND
AUTSORIZING THE HEALTH OFFICER AND/OR
PLUMBING INSPECTOR OF SAID CITY TO CONDEMN
AND TO C OEEL THE REMOVAL OF CERTAIN PLUKB-
ING FIXTURES, SEWERS, CESSPOOLS AND SEPTIC
TANKS WITHIN THE SAID CITY.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Sl Segundo,
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to deposit, place, oondnot or
deposit into the sewer system of said City of Bl Segundo,
California, or into any part thereof, azW oil, petroleum,
napths, tar or liquid petroleum or any of the products
thereof, or any kindred substance, or any water or sewage
mixed with or containing any of such substwees, or any
refuse of such a nature from any oil well refinery, pipe
• line, tank, tank farm or garage.
SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to cause axiy pipe to be laid
in the City of El Segundo, Cali lbrnia, for connection with
the sewer system of said city, unless the same shall be
laid up -grade and with the socket ends of the pipe laid
up -grade from the street main to the building or structure
to be served.
SECTION 3. That it shall be unleaf 1 for any
person, f i 7m or corporation t o connect any 1.at eral in the
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City of E1 Segundo, California, with the sewer system of
said city, unless at the point of connection a vitrified
clay pipe shall be used having its maximum diameter equal
to the diameter of the main to which the some is connected,
and its minimum diameter shall be equal to the diameter of
the lateral or connection through which the same is served.
SECTION. 4, That whenever there shall hereafter
exist a public sewer in any public street, avenue, alley,
way or place in the City of E1 Segundo, California, in
front of or adjoining exy lot or parcel of lead or premises
in said oity, it shall be the duty of the ovaer, occupant
or person in possession or control of such lot, parcel of
land or premises immediately v&enever any cesspool or
septic tank located in or upon or serving such lot, parcel
of lend or premises, or the occupants thereof, is abandoned,
unused or condemned, to connect the sewer system of the said
promises with such public sewer.
SECTION B. That it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation in the City of E1 Segundo,
California, to permit any abandoned, unused or condemned
cesspool to be, exist or remain in or upon any premise
owned, occupied or controlled by any such person, fim or
corporation, unless the same shall have beam filled with
earth, sand or gravel or other kindred substance to the
top thereof.
SECTION 6. That any and all work required to be
done under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be done
and performed to the satisfaction of the plumbing inspector
of the said City of El Segundo, and the said plumbing In-
speotor and his deputies and the City health officer of
said city and his deputies shall at all reasonable times
have the right to eater in, into and upon any and all lots,
parcels of land and/or premises within the said oity for
the purpose of inspecting the same and determining whether
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or not the same and. the plumbing or house drainage system
thereon comply with the requirements of this ordinance, and
said plumbing inspector and his deputies and said health
officer and his deputies are hereby authorized and empowered
to condemn any and all cesspools,LBeptic tanks, drainage
systems and /or sewer disposal fdcilities v&ich do not comply
with the requirements of this ordinance sad other ordinances
of the said City of El Segundo relating to the subject of
sewage and /or house drainage.
SECTION 7. That any abandoned, unused or condemned
cesspool, septic tank or drainage system now existing or eblich
may hereafter exist upon any lot, parcel of land or premises
within the said City of El Segundo, Cali ibrnia, unless the
same be filled with earth, sand, gravel or other kindred sub-
stances as hereinabove provided, shall be and the same is
hereby found and declared to 'be a nuisance and dangerous to
the public peace, health and safety of said city and the said
plumbing inspector and his deputies and /or the said health
officer and his deputies are hereby authorized and instructed
to abate any and all such nuisances and said officers and each
of them ehall have power to call upon the City Attorney of
said city for such assistance as may be needed in the matter.
SECTION 8. It shall be unlawful for arq pers m,
firm or corporation, to use or maintain, or to cause or permit
to be used or maintained, any water, closet, urinal, sink, slop
hopper or other plumbing fixture, unless the same is connected
with a ossspool constructed in accordance with the ordinances
of the City of El Segundo, or with an officially accepted
sewer; pxovi8ed, that intercepting hoppers may be maintained
sa d used.
SECTION 9. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to use or maintain, or to oense or pensit
to be used or maintained, any broken or defective water closet,
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urinal, sink, slop hopper or other plumbing fixture, or any
flush tank that is, so defective as not to cleanse sufficiently
the water closet bowl.
SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation t o use or maintain, or to cause or permit
to be used or maintained, any water closet, urinal, sink,
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slop hopper or other plumbing fixture the waste water or
sewage from ihioh is discharged under any building or upon
the surface of the ground.
SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation, either as owner, agent, manager or tenant,
to cause or permit any pipe or plumbing connection, or any
water closet, urinal, sink, slop hopper or other plumbing
fixture, to be .open to the atmosphere for more than twenty -
four (24) hours by reason of any break,'opening or aperture
of any kind, except such opening as may be necessary for the
ordinary and customary use of each fixture.
SECTION 12. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation, to repair or stop, or to cause or permit
to be repaired or stopped, any break or aperture in any pipe
or plumbing fixture or plumbing connection used for conducting
sewage or waste water exoept in the following manner; Cast
iron or wrought iron shall be repaired by means of a threaded
plug or an efficient clamp or caulking; lead or brass pipe
shall be repaired by means of solder. No non- metalio substanse
shall be used in making any such repair.
SECTION 13. It shall be unlawful for any pDrepav
firm or corporation to use or maintain, or to cause or permit
to be used or maintained, any water closet that i-R not *lr#!!ed
with three (3) gai lone or more of water at each discharge;
SECTION 14. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm
or corporation to use
or maintain, or
to cease
or permit
to be
used 'or maintained,
any sink or water
closet,
the space
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underneath which is enclosed, or the floor and walls
beneath and around which are not we 11 painted.
SECTION 15. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation t o use or maintain, or to cause or
permit to be used or maintained, any overflowing or open
cesspool, or any cesspool, the top or any wall of which shall.
have caved in, or arty cesspool that is of insufficient
capacity for the volume of sewage or waste water that is
discharged thereinto.
SECTION 16. It shall be unlawful fcw any person,
f:brm or corporation to use or maintain, or to cause or permit
to be used or maintained, any soil pipe, waste pipe, drain
.pipe, vent pipe, house drain or sewer that shall have become
clogged so that the flow of sewage or water through such pipe
or sewer is stopped or impeded.
SECTION 17. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to maintain, or to cause or permit to
be maintained, any water closet, urinal, sink, slop hopper
or other plumbing fixture that shall remain unused for a
period of thirty (30) days, unless the same shall be sealed
in such a mamer as to prevent the escape or passage of
sewer gas or air from the sewer through such fixture.
SECTION 18. Any water closet, urinal, sink, slop
hopper or other plumbing fixture, aQ d ea y pipe, sewer or
cesspool, and any gas water heater, the use or maintenance
of which is made unlawful by this ordinance, is hereby
deolared to be a nuisance and the health officer is hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to condemn the same and
to cause and compel.. the abatement of such nuisanoe, and to
compel = the removal thereof.
SECTIONI9. In the event that any pipe or plumbing
fixture or plumbing connection is declared by the health
officer to be defective, and is ordered to be removed, the
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owner of such pipe, plumbing fixture or plumbing connection
may, within one day after the service of notice upon smch
owner to remove such pipe, plumbing fixture or plumbing
connection, request the appointment of referees to determine
whether or not suoh pipe, plumbing fixture or plumbing
connection is defective and whether the same should be
removed; such request shall be made in writing and shall
be filed with the health officer. Upon the filing j of such
requests one referee shall be appointed by the health officer,
one by the owner filing such written request and the third
by the two referees so selected. The said referees shall be
appointed within one day after the filing of the recpest
therefor, as hereinbefore provided. Each of such referees
shall be a licensed architect, or a licensed physician, or
a master plumber. Such referees shall examine the pipe,
plumbing fixture or plumbing connection in question, and
render a report thereon within two days after their appoint-
ment. The decision of such referees shall be binding upon
the owner making the request for the appointment of such
referees, and upon the health officer. Every owner regaestin#
the appointment of referees, as hereinbefore provided, shall
at the time of filing the request therefor, deposit with the
health officer the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00), to defray
the expenses of the examination and report of such referees.
Such referees shall be paid their actual expenses and such
compensation as may be determined by the health officer; pro-
vided, that the total expense of examination shall not exoeed
the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00). If the total snount of the
expenses of any examination shall amount to less than the
sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00), the remainder of such sum
shall be returned to the person, firm or corporation depositing
the same. In case of any vacancy in the board of referees
such vaosmy shall be filled by the party who made the original
appointment of the person whose place is vacated.
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SECTION 20. That any person, firm or ogrporation
violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Three Hundred
Dollars ($300.00) , or by imprisonment in the city jail for
a period of not more than six months, or by both suoh fine
and imprisonment.
Each such person, firm or corporation shall be
deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day during
any portion of which any violation of any provision of, this
ordinance is permitted, continued or permitted by .suoh person,
firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as
provided by this ordinance.
SECTION 21, The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the
same to be published once
in the El
Segundo Herald,
a
weekly newspaper printed,
published
and circulated
in the
said City of El Segundo, and hereby designated for the
purpose.
This ordinal os shall take effect immediately upon
the final passage and adoption thereof.
Passed, approved and adopted this: 28th day of
_y , A. D. , 1926.
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President oar rus ees
of the City of El Segundo, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA j
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS,
CITY ON EL SEGUNDO )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the Board of Trustees of the
said city is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinanoe No. 127, was duly passed and adopted by the
said Board of Trustees, approved and signed by the
President of said board, and attested by the City Clerk
of said city, all at a regular meeting of the said board
hold on the Uth day of May , 1926, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYE S: TRUS TEES Cannon, Gerold, Krimmel , Love and Binder •
NOES: TRUSTEES NOW ;
ABSENT: TRUSTEES None.
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Clerk's Certificate
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
�-. of El Segundo, California, do hereby oertify that the whole
number of members of the Board of Trustees of the said city
is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance
No. 127 is a full, true and correct original
of O FS-SLe No. iz of the said City of 31 Segundo
California, ent itl F7
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, MAKING CERTAIN RULES AND REGU-
LATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE USE OF THE
MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM OF SAID CITY; MAKING
CERTAIN REGULATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO CONNEC-
TIONS WITH SAID SEWER SYSTEM; AND AUTHORIZING
THE HEALTH OFFICER AND / OR PLUMBING INSPECTOR
OF SAID CITY TO CONDEMN AND TO COMPEL THE RE-
MOVAL OF CERTAIN PLUMBING FIXTURES, SEWERS,
CESSPOOLS AND SEPTIC TANKS WITHIN THE SAID
CITY."
which was duly passed and adopted by the said Board of
Trustees, approved and signed by the President of said
Board and attested by the City Clerk of said city, all at a
regular meeting of the said board held on the 28th day of
y , 1926, and that the same was so pasee-T-and
adopted bby-the following vote:
Aye a: Trustees Cannon, Gerow, Krirmel, Love and Binder ;
Noes: Trustees None. ;
ABSENT: Trustees None.
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General laws
of the State of California (Deering 1923 Edition) that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 127 was duly and regularly pub-
lished according to law -01-the order of the Board of
Trustees of said city in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general cirdulation, printed, published and
circulated within the said city, and that the same was so
published therein on the following date , to -wit:
July 9th, 1926
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said city this
10th day of July , 1926.
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