ORDINANCE 63541.�>R
ORDINANCE NO. 635
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING WITH CERTAIN AMEND-
MENTS AND DELETIONS THAT CERTAIN CODE,
ENTITLED "WESTERN PLUMBING OFFICIALS
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, 1964 EDITION ";
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. PLUMBING CODE ESTABLISHED. The "West-
ern Plumbing Officials Uniform Plumbing Cod e, 1964 Edition, " including
Appendices A, B, C, E and F therein contained, promulgated and pub-
lished by the Western Plumbing Officials Association, three (3) copies of
which have been filed and are on file in the office of the City Clerk, for
public inspection, hereby are adopted with the same force and effect as
though set out herein in full.
SECTION 2. CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO THE UNIFORM
PLUMBING CODE. Said Uniform Plumbing Code is amended by changing,
adding and deleting the following designated chapters, sections and por-
tions of sections.
(A) Section 1. 1 is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 1. 1 - ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY AND ASSIST-
ANTS. Whenever the term 'administrative authority' is used
in this code, it shall be construed to mean the Director of Build-
ing Safety. "
(B) Section 1. 2 is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 1. 2 - ASSISTANTS. Whenever the term 'assistants'
is used in this code, it shall be construed to mean the assistants
of said Director of Building Safety. "
(C) Section 1. 3 is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 1. 3 - DEPARTMENT HAVING JURISDICTION. Un-
less otherwise provided for by law, the office of the Administra-
tive Authority shall be a part of the Building Department. "
(D) Section 1. 4 (10) is deleted.
(E) Section 1. 10 (a) is amended to read as follows:
"(a) No permit shall be issued to any person, to do, or
cause to be done any plumbing or drainage work regulated by
this code except to a person holding a valid, unexpired and
unrevoked State Contractor's License covering the work con-
templated under the permit applied for and any license required
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by any Ordinance of this City, except when and as otherwise
hereinafter provided in this Section. "
(F) Section 1. 11. 1 is added to read as follows:
"Sec. 1. 11. 1 - COMPREHENSIVE PLUMBING PERMIT.
Any person regularly employing a journeyman plumber who has
been certified by the Administrative Authority as such, may
apply for an Annual Comprehensive Permit for the purpose of
installations, alterations, or repairs of plumbing systems or
equipment on his own premises.
"Application for Annual Comprehensive Plumbing Per-
mits shall be made by completing City forms provided for such
purpose. Each application shall recite all conditions under
which such permit is granted and shall carry the name of each
person who is a certified journeyman plumber.
"Holders of Annual Comprehensive Permits are entitled
to perform all plumbing work on the premises described in the
permit. "
(G) Section 1. 12 Schedule of Fees on Page 6a is amended by adding the
following:
"Annual Comprehensive Permit $20. 00"
(H) Sections 2. 2 through 2. 11, both inclusive, are deleted.
(I) Section 314 (b) is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Existing building sewers and building drains may
be used in connection with new buildings or new plumbing and
drainage work only when they are found on examination and
test to conform in all respects to the requirements govern-
ing new work, except as provided in Table 4 -3, and the proper
Administrative Authority shall notify the owner to make any
changes necessary to conform to this code. No building or
part thereof, shall be erected or placed over any part of a
drainage system which is constructed of materials other than
those approved elsewhere in this code for use inside of a
building. "
(J) Section 405 (b) is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Horizontal drainage lines, connecting with a verti-
cal stack shall enter through forty -five (45) degree "Y" branches,
sixty (60) degree "Y" branches, combination "Y" and one - eighth
(1/8) bend branches, sanitary tee or sanitary tapped tee branches,
or other approved fittings of equivalent sweep. No fitting having
more than one (1) branch at the same level shall be used unless
such fitting is constructed so that the discharge from any one (1)
branch cannot readily enter any other branch. "
(K) Amend Table 4 -3 by adding to the first paragraph of the three asterisk
footnote the following sentence:
"Except that an additional six -unit fixture may be added to an
existing three inch horizontal line in a single family dwelling. "
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(L) Section 1101 (c) is amended by adding the following:
"Such connections shall be made by extending a
public sewer so that all buildings served thereby can connect
without crossing intervening private property. The public
sewer shall be installed at the expense of the benefited prop-
erty and in accordance with plans and specifications approved
by the City Engineer and shall lie in public easements.
"EXCEPTION: The requirement for extending a pub-
lic sewer may be waived if separate house connections to the
public sewer are provided for each separate lot or parcel. "
(M) Section 1306 is amended by numbering present section as (a) and by
adding (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Automatic storage type water heaters and hot
water boilers deriving heat from electricity or from fuels
other than gas shall, in addition to the appliance thermostat,
be factory equipped with a separately activiated water tempera-
ture limiting device complying with recognized applicable stand-
ards. "
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. Any person,
firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this code shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be
punishable by a fine of not to exceed $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, for not to exceed six months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment. 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,
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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 provi-
sions of this code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use
which it authorizes is lawful.
The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans
shall not prevent the Administrative Authority from thereafter requir-
ing the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from
preventing construction operations being carried on thereunder when
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in violation of this code or /any other ordinance or from revoking
any Certificate of Approval when issued in error.
SECTION 5. EXPIRATION OF PERMIT. 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 sixty (60) days
from the date of issuance 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 sixty (60) days. Before such work may
be recommenced a new permit shall be first obtained to do so.
SECTION 6. REPEALS. Ordinance No. 603 and Section 2
of Ordinance No. 616 and all ordinances amendatory thereto, and all
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance, are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. That this Ordinance
shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after
the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 8. 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 24th day of May,
1965.
ATTEST:
(SEAL)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, )
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, .. e . �Eunicee U.e dGre"on . e ..... e , 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.. 635 e e .. e
is a full , true and correct original of Ordinance No ... 635 e e e e . of the said City of El
Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING WITH CERTAIN AMEND-
MENTS AND DELETIONS THAT CERTAIN CODE,
ENTITLED, "WESTERN PLUMBING OFFICIALS
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, 1964 EDITION ";
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 thee. , , 24th e e day of.. e e .May. e . o .... , 19. a e65e
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen.. , F' �d��'iG , ei x�aP�x' . e McFJLaAQy,. WP9a e e .. .
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NOES: Councilmen. e e NPPA;........ e ... e e e ............................ .
ABSENT: Councilmen None.eO OeDOOOOO.... 0............oepepppppepOeeeee,
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. 635.. e.
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.,, .. e e e .. e e e e .............. e ...... e e e e O
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City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California.
(SEAL)
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Deputy
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
tiler l...L. Coff... n .................... .......---- .............. being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
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he 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; that he
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ............
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Editor 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, & 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 paying 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, race; 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 avovoed or
otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin-
ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations.
That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page ............ numbered
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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, acs will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the .......................... ..... OT.di- L3!1lrc....�i .x.......635..............- --- ............ .......... .........................................
of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news-
paper paper at least ...�T1C�........ weekly, by ... ............................... consecutive publication ��...... commencing an the
....3z d... day of ......... ....... Jj., na........................ A. D..19.55., and ending on the ..........10th........ day of
JL1I1c ......................... A. D. 1GE5....... and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu-
larly issued, to -wit: ..._.. - - - -- - _J17.n�_..1 rJ�i...-- -965
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City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
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Deputy City Clerk ad said City.
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