ORDINANCE 8854 C%ln8
ORDINANCE NO. 885
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE "UNIFORM
MECHANICAL CODE, 1973 EDITION INCLUDING
APPENDICES A, B, AND C, THEREOF;
REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY CHAPTER 16.16
OF, AND ADDING CHAPTER 16.16 TO, THE
"EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE" RELATING TO
THE MECHANICAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 16.16 of the "E1 Segundo
Municipal Code" is repealed.
SECTION 2. Chapter 16.16 is added to the "E1
Segundo Municipal Code" to read as follows:
"CHAPTER 16.16
MECHANICAL CODE
"16.16.010 ESTABLISHED. The 'Uniform Mechanical
Code, 1973 Edition' including Appendices A, B, and C,
thereof, promulgated and published by the International
Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and the
International Conference of Building Officials, three
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 therein in full.
"16.16.020 CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO CODE. The Uniform
Mechanical Code is amended by changing or adding the
chapters, sections, and portions of chapters designated in
Sections 16.16.030 through 16.16.050.
"16.16.030 SECTION 203 AMENDED- -BOARD OF EXAMINERS
AND APPEALS CREATED. Section 203 is amended to read as
follows:
'Sec. 203 Board of Examiners and Appeals Created.
In order to determine the suitability of alternate materials
and construction and to provide for reasonable interpret-
ations of the provisions of this Code and for reasonable
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 five members.
The membership of said Board of Examiners and Appeals shall
be composed of the Mayor and the other members of the City
Council. 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
respective city offices above referred to and shall cease
to be such members upon their ceasing to be such officers.
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The Building Director shall be the Secretary to the
Board. The Board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations
for conducting its investigations and shall render all its
decisions and findings on contested matters, in writing,
to the Building Director, with a duplicate copy thereof to
any appellant or contestant affected by any such decision
or finding, and may recommend to the City Council such new
legislation, if any, as is consistent therewith.
'The Board of Examiners and Appeals may interpret the
provisions of this Code to cover a special case, if it
appears that the provisions of this Code do not definitely
cover the point raised or that a manifest injustice might
be done or unnecessary hardship or inconvenience be suffered
by a strict adherence to the provisions hereof; provided
that every such decision shall be by at least a two - third's
vote of all of the members of the Board of Examiners and
Appeals who are present at the meeting at which any such
matter is considered and decided.
'Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.
The Mayor shall be the presiding officer of the Board and
in his absence the Board shall select a temporary chairman.
Notices of meetings of the Board shall be given by at least
three hours notice delivered to each member personally or
by registered mail; provided, however, that any meeting
of the Board shall be legal for any purpose if the written
consent of all of the members of the Board to such meeting
is executed and filed in the records of the Board.
'The Board shall have the right, subject to such limits
as the City Council may prescribe by resolution, to employ
at the cost and expense of the City, such practicing
architects, competent builders, attorneys and structural
engineers as the Board, in its discretion, may deem
reasonably necessary in order to assist it in its invest-
igations and in making its findings and decisions.
"16.16.040 SECTION 302 (c) AMENDED -- ISSUANCE. Section
302 (c) shall be amended to read:
'(c) Issuance. The application, plans and specific-
ations filed by an applicant for a permit shall be checked
by the Building Official. The plans may be reviewed by
other departments of the City to check compliance with the
laws and ordinances under their jurisdiction, including
all provisions of the E1 Segundo City Code, heretofore or
hereafter adopted. If the Building Official is satisfied
that the work described in an application for permit and
the plans filed therewith conform to the requirements of
this Code, and other pertinent laws and ordinances, including
any and all provisions of the El Segundo City Code hereto-
fore or hereafter adopted, including without limitation,
the provisions of the zoning regulations, and that the fees
specified in Section 304 have been paid, he shall issue a
permit therefor to the applicant.
'When the Building Official issues the permit, he
shall endorse in writing or stamp on both sets of plans and
specifications "APPROVED." Such approved plans and
specifications shall not be changed, modified or altered
without authorization from the Building Official, and all
work shall be done in accordance with the approved plans.'
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"16.16.050 SECTION 304 AMENDED -- PERMIT FEES.
Section 304 Permit Fees on Pages 8 and 9 is amended by
adding the following paragraphs to the end thereof to
read as follows:
'Refunds. In the event any person shall have obtained
a mechanical permit and no portion of the work or construc-
tion covered by such permit shall have been commenced, and
such permit is surrendered, or in the further event there
has been a surrender of said permit because of the abandon-
ment of the contemplated 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 word's "CANCELLED AT THE REQUEST OF THE PERMITTE,"
or "EXPIRED BY TIME LIMITATION." Thereupon such permit shall
by 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 percent
of the mechanical permit fee actually paid. When such refund
is granted, a subsequent reapplication for the same project
will require the payment of a full plan checking and
mechanical permit fee.
'The Building Official, upon verifying that no work
involving 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 percent of the plan check fee may be refunded
only if such plans have not been checked.
'Plan Retention Fee. Before issuing a mechanical
permit the City shall collect a fee for retaining mechanical
plans and the related documents which the Building Official
determines shall be kept as permanent records by the City.
The amount of the plan retention fee shall be:
'Each
sheet
larger
than 8 1/2 "x11" .
. . .$ .50
Each
sheet
8 1 /2 "x
11" or smaller .
. . . .30
In no
case
shall
the charge be less
than. 1.00'
'Plan Check Fee. When, in the opinion of the Building
Official, an application for Mechanical permit represents a
project of considerable complexity, a plan check fee shall
be charged at the rate of sixty per cent of the total
mechanical permit fee, excluding the plan retention fee.
"16.16.060 SECTION 712 ADDED -- ELECTRIC DUCT HEATERS.
Section 712 is added to read as follows:
'Sec.712 Electric Duct Heaters.
(a) Scope. These provisions apply to electric heaters
used for comfort heating and installed in ducts.
'These provisions do not apply to those electric
heaters which are an integral part of, or are installed
within four feet of unitary appliances that are required
by provisions of the Electric Code to be tested and listed
as units by a recognized testing laboratory.
'The unitary appliances include:
Electric central heating furnaces;
Heat pumps including outdoor and indoor sections;
Central cooling air conditioners including outdoor and
indoor sections.
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'Electric heaters designed for factory or field
installation in conjunction with large heat pumps or
air conditioning systems that are not within the scope
of laboratory standards need not be listed as part of
the appliance. The heaters shall be installed to comply
with all applicable provisions of subsection (c) of this
section. The heaters shall be located to minimize heat
transfer from heating elements to other electrical components
or to combustible materials, and the heaters shall be
located on the discharge side of the fan motor if the motor
is in the duct.
'(b) Special Applications. Electric duct heaters for
use in ducts supplied by heat pumps, central cooling air
conditioners or other air cooling equipment which may result
in condensation of moisture in the duct shall be specifically
approved for use with heat pumps or central air condition-
ing units. Electric duct heaters shall be installed to
provide a minimum of four feet between the duct heater cooling
and the nearest surface of the heat pump,
air conditioner or other air moving appliances.
'Example listing: HEATERS, DUCT (1 65 E4)
John Doe Mfg. Company, New York 10, New York.
Duct Heaters, Cat. No's 10A, 12A, 13B, 14.
For use with heat pumps or central air conditioners.
'(c) Duct Heater Installations. The following
requirements are applicable to the installation of all
duct heaters:
1(1) Duct heaters shall only be installed in
accessible locations where testing, cleaning and inspection
can be done without disturbing the building or fixed
appurtenances thereto, such as piping, electric wiring
and the like. Duct and duct heater design shall be
arranged to provide uniform and adequate air flow over all
parts of the heater element.
1(2) An inspection panel with an area of not less than
one hundred forty square inches and a minimum dimension
of five inches shall be provided in the duct immediately
adjacent to, and on the upstream side of each electric duct
heater. The panel shall provide access for cleaning dust
and debris from the heater and means for checking concealed
heat limiters. The panel shall be marked "Disconnect
heater before removing this panel."
1(3) Controls for duct heaters and associated blowers
shall be arranged so that the blower motor supply circuit
is energized on the load side of the blower motor controller
whenever the duct heater is energized.
'(4) Each duct heater shall incorporate two thermally
actuated limiting devices (factory installed and laboratory
listed) which will disconnect the supply circuit under
predetermined limits of temperature.
a. One device shall be of the automatic resetting
type set to limit the temperature of the output air
to 200° Fahrenheit (ninety -three degrees Centigrade)
and the temperature on the heater enclosure and
outside duct surface to 194° Fahrenheit (ninety degrees
Centigrade). This service shall open the supply
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circuit directly or may open the holding coil circuit
of the heater operating contactor.
Note. Standards of Underwriters' Laboratories
Inc., require the automatic resetting limiting device
and contactor (if any) to be capable of one hundred
thousand cycles of operation.
b. The second Limiting device shall be one of the
types described in the following and arranged to
interrupt the current to the heater when the temp-
erature on the exterior of the duct exceeds 212°
Fahrenheit (one hundred degrees Centigrade).
1. A heat limiter of the fusible link type
in series with each ungrounded supply conductor; or
2. A thermally activated protector of a type
requiring manual resetting in each ungrounded supply
conductor; or
3. A heat limiter of the fusible link type or
a thermally activated protector of a type requiring
manual resetting, which is connected in series with
the holding coil of a normally open "safety
contactor" that is in series with, and independent
of the contactor used to operate the heater. The
"safety contactor" shall open all ungrounded
conductors of the supply circuit.
C. The operating points of the high -limit devices
shall be determined with the duct heater installed
in a test enclosure complying with Paragraph No. 288
of the U. L. Standard for Electric Space- Heating
Equipment (U.L.No. 573). The temperature limits
specified in 4 -A and B above may be exceeded by not
more than 30° Centigrade (fifty -four degrees
Fahrenheit) during the first thirty minutes of the
abnormal tests listed in Paragraphs 304 to 308,
inclusive of the U. L. Standard for Electric Space -
Heating Equipment.
'(5) The frame or enclosure of a duct heater shall
be designed to provide a minimum clearance of one -half inch
between the heating elements or element sheaths and the wall
or liner of any duct in which it can be installed.
'(d) Duct Provisions. Duct heaters may only be installed
in metal ducts. No portion of such ducts shall be lined
unless the lining material is suitably retained in a manner
satisfactory to the Building Official to prevent it from
separating from the duct wall and obstructing the air flow
over the heating elements.
'Nonmetallic ducts shall not be used within twenty -four
inches of the duct heater in each direction of air flow.'
SECTION 3. VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES. It shall be
unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect, install,
alter, repair, relocate, add to, replace, use or maintain
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heating, ventilating, comfort cooling, or refrigeration
equipment in the jurisdiction, or cause the same to be done,
contrary to or in vi.olation of any of the provisions of this Code.
maintenance of equipment which was unlawful at the time it was
installed and which would be unlawful under this Code if
installed after the effective date of this Code, shall constitute
a continuing violation of this Code.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense
for each and every day or portion thereof during which any
violation of any of the provisions of this Code is committed,
continued, or permitted, and upon conviction of any such vi.olation
such person shall be punishable by a fine of not more than
$500.00, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 4. All changes and modifications in the Uniform
1..,echanical Code, 19� 73 Edition, including Appendices A, B, and C, thereof,
reasonably necessary because of local
as amended by this ordinance, are
co.ditions. This finding is made pursuant to Section 179513. 5 of the Health eaHealth
and Safety Code of the State of California.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall
become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after
tie final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION G. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to
be entered in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall
P -ta;tie a miitutu Of the passage and adoption thereof in the records
of the meet:in,; at which the sarc:e is passed and adopted; and
sh =El_l t�i_i,I�in fifi ec.aa days after_ the passage and adoption thereof,
caus: -, the �,a:rtr -:: to I. >�� pub -�. i := ,13E,c7 once i� the I�1 Segundo Herald., a
c. . and circtzlate
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within
said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby designated
for t1liat purpose,
APPROVED and ADOPTED this 18th day of
PASSED., '
November _ , 1975.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
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Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,Cal rni`
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA SS )
OS ANGELES )
COUNTY OF LOS N G of El Segundo,
CITY OF EL City Clerk of the City
LERIE . A• BURR�,WES• , , ... • of members of the City Council
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do hereby certify that the who number being Ordinance No.
foregoing ordinance, of the said City of
California, that the foreg gg 5 • , • , •
of the said City is five; Ordinance No,
true and correct original of
is a full, entitled:
El Segundo, California,
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY �UNIFORM�DO
AN ORD ADOPTING TH
CALIFORNIA, 1973 ED TION INCLUDING
MECHANICAL CODE' AND C, OF; 16. 16
B
APPENDICES A, 16. 16 TO, THE
REPEALING IN G
'ENTIRETY Y CHAPTER RELATING TO
OF .1 AN D A DDIN
" EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE
THE MECHANICAL CODE.
roved and signed
passed and adopted by the said City Council, app all at a
which wa s duly p the City Clerk of said City,
and attested by N ovember , . ,
by the Mayor of said City, 18th day of .. • • • • • • ' ' ' '
re ular meeting of the said Council held on
assed and adopted by
the following vote-
regular , and that the same was so p to hens,
19. ? 5 • • ..... • N a el, , Rockhold; S P. .. , < .. .
AYES:
Councilmen. , n Vranken•and Mayor Balmer• , .
cilmen. None . ......................... .
NOES: Coun • •None. • .. ............................... .
ABSENT: ' ' ' • ° ' • • • • • • • • pro-visions of Section 36933
pursuant to the p Ordinance
1 do hereby further certify that p that the foregoing
published according to law and -the order of
of the Government Code of the State of California, of
885 • was duly and regula y p weekly newspaper
No. . • • • • • • undo Herald, a and that the
the City Council of said City in the El Segundo
printed, published and circulated withn said •it�
general circulation, p date, tow .
same was so published therein on the following /
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City Clerk of the City of El Seg
(SEAL) By ............ • .. ..
Deputy