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ORDINANCE 594t ORDINANCE NO. 594 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE RULES, REGULATIONS, PRO- VISIONS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN CODE ENTITLED, "UNIFORM BUILD- ING CODE, 1961 EDITION, VOLUME I" TOGETHER WITH ITS APPENDIX AND THE "UNIFORM BUILD- ING CODE STANDARDS, 1961 EDITION "; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 362 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI- FORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. BUILDING CODE ESTABLISHED. The Uniform Building Code, 1961 Edition, Volume I" together with its Appendix and the "Uniform Building Code Standards, 1961 Edition, Volume III, " both of which are promulgated and published by the International Conference of Building Officials, three (3) copies of each of which have been filed, and are on file in the office of the City Clerk, for public inspection, here- by are adopted with the same force and effect as though set out herein in full. SECTION 2. CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE. Said Uniform Building Code is amended by changing, adding, and deleting the following designated chapters, sections and portions of sections: (A) Section 204 is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 204. In order to determine the suitability of alter- nate materials and construction and to provide for reasonable interpretations of the provisions of this Code and for reason- able variances therefrom where same are found necessary in order to provide for unusual or extraordinary conditions which may arise, there shall be and there is hereby created a Board of Examiners and Appeals, consisting of seven members. The membership of said Board of Examiners and Appeals shall be composed of the Mayor and the other members of the City Coun- cil, the 'city Clerk and the Chief of the Fire Department of said City. Said members shall hold their respective member- ships on said Board of Examiners and Appeals by, reason of, and concurrently with, their terms of service in their respec- tive city offices above referred to and shall cease to be such members upon their ceasing to be such officers. The Building Inspector shall be the Secretary to the Board. The Board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for conducting its investi- gations and shall render all its decisions and findings on contested matters, in writing, to the Building Inspector, with a duplicate copy thereof to any appellant or contestant affected by any such -1- 3�9 8 ing any determination of said Department, or either of them, under this subdivision (e) and the decision of such Council after a hearing of such applicant of such appeal shall be final and conclusive. " (D) Section 303 (c), (d) and (e) are added to read as follows: "Sec. 303 (c) OCCUPANCY INSPECTION FEE. An occupancy inspection fee in the sum of $10. 00 shall be paid to the Building Official at the time application is made for an occupancy inspection. "(d) DEMOLITION PERMIT FEE. A permit fee of $2. 00 shall be paid to the Building Official at the time of application for a permit to demolish any building or structure. "(e) REFUNDS. In the event any person shall have obtain- ed a Building Permit and no portion of the work or construction covered by such permit shall have been commenced, and such permit shall have been cancelled as provided for in subsection (d) of Section 302, or in the further event there has been a sur- render of said permit because of the abandonment of the con- templated project with no portion of the work or construction covered by the permit issued by the Building Official under the provisions of this Code having been commenced, the person to whom such permit has been issued may deliver such permit to the Building Official with a written request that such permit be cancelled. The Building Official shall thereupon stamp or write on the face of such permit the words "Cancelled at the request of the Permittee, " or as in the first part, "Expired by time limitation. " Thereupon such permit shall be null and void and of no effect. Upon such presentation to said Building Official of a written request for refund, the Permittee shall be entitled to a refund of eighty per cent (80 %) of the Building Permit Fee actually paid. When such refund is granted, a subsequent re- application for the same project will require the payment of a full plan checking and building permit fee. "The Building Official, upon verifying that no work in- volving city inspections has been done, shall approve such claim to be paid as provided by law for the payment of claims against the City. "Eighty per cent (80%) of the Plan Check Fee may be re- funded only if such plans have not been checked. " (E) Section 307 is added to read as follows: "SEC.. 307. The City Council being mindful that the City of El Segundo has, and in the future will have within its bound- aries, various large manufacturing and industrial concerns, whose intra -plant operations are complex and extensive and which almost daily may involve some feature or features re- quiring the filing of applications, the payment of fees, the making of inspections, the issuance of related orders and ap- provals, and of other matters covered by this Code, the Electrical Code and Plumbing Code of said city, therefore makes the following provisions after careful study and consi- deration for the issuance of Annual Comprehensive Permits upon payment of Annual Comprehensive Permit Fees as here- inafter provided for. The provision herein made for Annual Comprehensive Permits will not only avoid the delay, detail and confusion incident to the making of applications and the securing of permits on the part of such concerns under said various codes, but will also expedite construction and busi- ness; will materially reduce the burden presently placed on -3- municipal services to process applications and permits, etc. , and will also provide the necessary safeguards and protection contemplated by such respective codes. "Said Council does therefore hereby establish the follow- ing Annual Comprehensive Permit and does hereby fix the Annual Comprehensive Permit Fee therefor as follows, to wit: Any person who complies with the rules relating thereto hereinafter set forth, whose subject property owned by him or in which he is substantially interested, is located in any M -1 or M-2 zone as established under the zoning ordinances and regulations of the City, may make application for and have issued to, such person an Annual Comprehensive Permit which shall cover, as to the subject property or properties, all matters requiring applications, permits or processing under the provisions of this Code, the Plumbing Code and Electrical Code of said city, for the full period of one year from and in- cluding the date of issuance of such permit. RULES & FEES RELATING TO ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE PERMITS: (1) Written application therefor shall be made to the Director of Building Safety on forms provided by the City. (2) The basic minimum fee must accompany the appli- cation. (3) Applicant must agree to furnish the required infor- mation, from its books and records, and to pay the additional fee (above the designated minimum fee) hereinafter provided for, on or before the 31st day of December of the permit year. (4) Permittee must furnish at his own expense, quali- fied special inspectors to inspect all building, plumbing and electrical work on subject property or properties. Such inspectors must be approved by the Director of Building Safety. The approval of such inspectors is subject to withdrawal at any time, in which case other inspectors satisfactory to and approved by the Director of Building Safety must be furnished immediately, as in the first in- stance. (5) Special inspectors must inspect all work on sub- ject properties requiring municipal inspection to provide compliance with applicable Code regulations. (6) Special inspectors must submit to the Director of Building Safety at the end of each quarter, a written statement certifying that all work performed during such quarter under the Annual Comprehensive Per- mit, pursuant to which he is acting, conforms to the regulations of the applicable municipal codes; and a description of the work performed, on forms pro- vided for that purpose. (7) The application for the Annual Comprehensive Per- mit should contain the legal description of the pro- perty that is to be the subject of the Annual Compre- hensive Permit. (8) Annual Comprehensive Permit only may be issued for the following construction: a. Wood frame commercial structures, not over one story in height, not in excess of 2, 500 square feet of gross floor area, and where the clear span between bearing walls does not ex- ceed 25 feet. Additions to existing structures will be permitted under the Annual Comprehen- sive Permit only when they will not cause the -4- 4%00 total floor area of the existing building together with the new addition to exceed the aforemen- tioned 2, 500 square feet. Additions shall not be construed to mean additional stories to exist- ing structures. b. Construction projects such as the erection of office partitions, revamping existing facilities, minor additions or alterations, the installation or removal of mechanical devices. c. Erection or alteration of open structures used to accommodate mechanical equipment peculiar to the operation of the concern and having no human occupancy during its normal operation. d. Other projects, broadly classified as construc- tion and falling within the meaning of this sec- tion. (9) Designs, calculations and specifications for buildings or structures erected or constructed under the provi- sions of paragraph (8) a or (8) c.shallbe based on this Code and Division 13, Part 3, of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California. Such designs, calcu- lations and specifications shall be permanently main- tained by the holder of the Annual Comprehensive Per- mit, and shall be subject to examination by the Direc- tor of Building Safety at his discretion. (10) The holder of an Annual Comprehensive Permit will be held responsible for seeing that all persons or firms performing services covered by this permit are pro- perly licensed by the City of El Segundo. (11) Fees for Annual Comprehensive Permits are fixed and established as follows: a. A basic minimum annual fee of $100. It shall accompany the application for the Annual Compre- hensive Permit. Permits shall be issued on a calendar year basis; they shall not be prorated. Annual renewal of permit may be effected by appli- cation accompanied by payment of the required annual fee. b. Additional fees computed pursuant to Chapter 3 of this Code. Fees will be computed on the total valuation of all work performed during the calen- dar year under the Annual Comprehensive Permit, and are due and payable on December 31 of each year. "In making provisions for the Annual Comprehensive Permits herein contemplated, the Council wishes to announce that in the event attempts are made to take any undue advantage of the conven- ient methods provided for minimizing the inconvenience and time in- volved under ordinary procedures, the Council will be disposed in such cases to repeal this section. "In the event any such permittee shall refuse or fail: (1) to observe, abide by and conform to the conditions, regu- lations and provisions, or any of them set forth in, or contemplated by or under this section; or (2) co- operate with the Director of Building Safety in matters covered by this section, and with reference to subjects governed by this Code, the Electrical Code and the Plumb- ing Code of said city; then, and in any such event, the City Council reserves the right to revoke the permits held by such permittee under this section. Upon revocation of any such permit, all rights of the permittee therein named, granted by such permit, shall immediately cease and termi- nate, and such permittee, and the subject premises referred to -5- 4001 therein, shall thereupon be immediately subject to the provi- sions of this Code and to the provisions of said Electrical and Plumbing Codes, as fully and for all intents and purposes as though the permit under this Section 307, so revoked, had never been issued." (F) Section 502 is amended by adding the following: "Applications for occupancy inspections shall be made on forms provided for that purpose; each such application shall be accompanied by a plot plan and a floor plan accurately drawn to scale showing how the building will be partitioned, location of doors, windows, toilet facilities, method of providing venti- lation and any other information pertinent to the intended use. " (G) Section 504 (d) is added to read as follows: "Sec. 504 (d) Requirements for Areas Subject to Inunda- tion. When in the opinion of the Building Official, it is deemed necessary, any foundation and /or main floor of any structure to be built in an area subject to inundation shall be required to be built at an elevation at least six inches (6 ") above street grade as established by the City Engineer. Whenever said Build- ing Official deems it to be necessary for purposes of safety and/ or convenience of ingress or egress, any structure for which a permit is hereafter sought shall be built at an elevation which will clearly serve and accomplish such purposes and such eleva- tion shall be subject to approval of said Building Official. " (H) Section 1601 (a) is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 1601 (a) For the purpose of this Code, the entire city is hereby declared to be, and is hereby established a Fire District, and said Fire District shall be known and designated as "Fire Zones Two, Three and Four, " and shall include such territory or portions of said city with such respective zones as outlined and determined in an ordinance of said city, entitled, "Ordinance No. 506. An Ordinance of the City of El Segundo, California, Fixing and Establishing Fire Zones in and for said City, and Repealing all Ordinances and Parts of Ordinances in Conflict Therewith. ", adopted July 8, 1957, as same now exists and may hereafter be amended. Wherever, in such ordinance creating and establishing fire zones, reference is made to any fire zone, it shall be construed to mean one of the three fire zones designated and referred to in this chapter. "In the event said Ordinance No. 506 is hereafter amended or repealed, or a new ordinance establishing fire zones or dis- tricts in and for said city, is adopted in lieu thereof, then and in that event the provisions of said Ordinance No. 506, as so amended in case of such amendment, or of said new ordinance in case of a new ordinance, shall prevail, and the fire districts set forth and established therein shall be the fire districts or zones established and referred to in this Code, effective as of the effective date of such amendatory ordinance or new ordi- nance, as the case may be. " (I) Section 2710 (a) is added to read as follows: "All structural welding shall be done and performed by registered welders (certified in accordance with the then current regulations of the American Welding Society) only. " -6- 4C;U' (J) Section 3303 (f) is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 3303 (f) Special Doors. Revolving, sliding, and overhead rolling doors shall not be used unless exit doors of required width are installed adjacent thereto. " (K) Section 3303 (i) is added to read as follows: "Sec. 3303 (i) Glass Doors. Sliding glass doors, where permitted shall conform to the requirements of Sec. 1711 (d) , (Dwellings and apartment houses are exempt from this require- ment). (I,:) Section 4507 is deleted. SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, and phrases be declared un- constitutional. SECTION 4. VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect, construct, en- large, alter, repair, move, remove, demolish, convert, equip, use or occupy or maintain any building or structure or any portion of any build- ing or structure in the City of El Segundo, California, contrary to or in violation of any provision of this Code or its appendix or of any of the specification documents herein referred to, or to cause, permit or suffer the same to be done. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provi- sions of this Code or of its said appendix, or of any of said specifica- tion documents therein referred to, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of El Segundo, California, or in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, California, as the com- mitting magistrate may direct, for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate -7- 4 003 offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this Code, or of its said appendix, or of any of its said specification documents therein referred to, is committed, continued or permitted. SECTION 5. REPEALS. Ordinance No. 362 and all ordi- nances amendatory thereto, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance, and in particular Ordinance Nos. 392, 413, 422, 425, 436, 445, 458, 492, 501 and 588, are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. That this ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the final passage and adoption thereof. SECTION 7. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pass- age and adoption of this Ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, pub- lished and circulated within said City of El Segundo, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 10Way of December, 1962. ATTEST: i�y� er i (SEAL) 9- X� Mayor of e City _oTEl Segundo, a i ornig. ME STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) CITY OF EL SEGUNDO I, .. , . o EiiNICEo U.. KREAWN ..... City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. o o 0 AQ4o 0 0 is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No... 594 o a , , of the said City of El Segundo 4F California, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE RULES, REGULATIONS, PRO- VISIONS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN CODE ENTITLED, "UNIFORM BUILD- ING CODE, 1961 EDITION, VOLUME 1" TOGETHER WITH ITS APPENDIX AND THE "UNIFORM BUILD- ING CODE STANDARDS, 1961 EDITION "; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 362 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.: which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on they. e 10th o .. day of... �e�ember o a o 19062 , o 0 and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen. Fredericka. Kimporto . Swanson,. Tandy and p o Q o 0 0 0 0 0 o.00000eeo oeoa o0 o......0 ..... .... ooando Mayor oBakera o 000000 0000000000000000000000000 NOES: Councilmen, oN9Po ;.....000.00000............o o a o oo.o o o o ooa00000 ABSENT: Councilmen. None......... o ........................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No, Alth... was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the some was so pub- 1 ished therein on the following date, to wit:. . a a o „ . a o _ _ .. , ... , , , p a o o ...... _ 0. (SEAL) 440 () -1 City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California. By........................................ Deputy 4r-¢-R Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ) A. 4 ar1Qn....Nj e-w -co- b ......................................... _................. being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That She is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; tha� he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ... ..prInC pa-1.....clerk ................ ......... ............................... ............................. ............................... . Of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by -said section, said newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a -bona fide subscription list of payir_g subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denon-in - a•tions, or any of such chases, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page .... ........ numbered ............ ............................... . hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full -true and correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru- ment; that the ...........Or nancir-- ..N�q, 5.9.4 ..... ............................... of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news- paper at least ..........1.......... week ......... by ... ............ ................... consecutive publication commencing on the .... 2-0th--. day of ............................ . Pe-9-1 ............. A. D. 19 52., and ending on the .............. r..Ot.h.'.. day of . ............. ......... Bac........... A. D. 19 -- -., and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu- larly issued, to -wit: .... ...................................................... ............ .... ............ .. D Y - -- 2.9.,-x.9- 62.......... ............. .. ................. ......................... . . .... ........ ............. . . . .• ................................... ............................ ................................................. .................... ..... ...... . . . . .. Je dam.. Subscribed d sworn to before me this ...�C.. G /..,.. day of .....n Q. A. D. 19 --- �L...Y City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County of Los Angeles, State of California. By.. .................. .--------- .............................. ................ .......... Deputy City Clerk of said City.