HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1248ORDINANCE N0. 1248
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THF. CITY OF LYNWOOD
ADDING CHAPTER 26, UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, TO THE CODE
OF TP,E CITY OF' LYNSd00D THEREBY ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, 1982 EDITION, AND REPEALING ALL
OTHER ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEP.EOF IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood hereby does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 26 hereby is added to the Code of the City of Lynwood
to read as follows:
CHAPTER 26
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODF.
Section 26-1. Adoption of Uniform Plumbing Code by Reference.
With the exceptions of additions and amendments hereinafter set forth in this
Chapter, there is hereby adopted by reference the following code for the City
of Lynwood:
Uniform Plumbing Code, 1982 Edition, with Appendices A, B, C, D, E,
G, H, and I, Copyright 1982 by the International Association of Plumbing and
Mechanical Officials, 5032 Alhambra Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and by
the International Conference of Building Officials, 5360 South Workman Mill
Road, Whittier, California.
Section 26-2. Uniform Plumbing Code - Amendments, Additions and
Deletions. Said Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by Section 26-1 is hereby
amended as follows:
(1) Part I, Administration, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(A) Right of Entry. Whenever necessary to make an inspection to
enforce any of the provisions of this Code, or whenever the Director of the
Community Development Department or his authorized representative has reason-
able cause to believe that there exists in any buildings or upon any premises,
any conditions which makes such buildings or premises unsafe as defined in
Section 203 of the Uniform Building Code, 1982 Edition, the Director of the
Community Development Department or his authorized representative may enter
such buildings or premises at all reasonable times to inspect the same or to
perform any duty imposed upon the director of the Community Development Depart-
ment by this Code; provided however, that no such entry shall be made unless
an inspection warrant authorizing the same has first been issued.
Any other provisions herein contained to the contrary notwithstand-
ing the Director of the Community Development Department or his authorized
representative may enter a building or premises to inspect the same or to
perform any duty imposed upon the Director of the Community Development
Department by this code without the necessity of first obtaining an inspection
warrant whenever said Director resonably believes that said building or pre-
mises is so damaged or defective as to cause an immediate danger to human life
or an immediate hazard to public safety.
No person shall hinder or prevent the Director of the Community
Development Department or his authorized representative while in the per-
formance of his duties from entering upon and into any and all buildings or
premises within the city.
(B) Board of Appeals. Within thirty (30) days after the Director
of the Community Development Department has rejected an application for a per-
mit or otherwise made a ruling adverse to the applicant, the applicant may
file a written appeal or request for a hearing with the City Clerk stating in
detail the reasons why the permit should be granted or the ruling should be
reversed or modified, notwithstanding the opinion of the Director of the Commun-
ity Development Department to the contrary.
(a) On or before the day next following the receipt of the written
appeal or request, the City Clerk shall advise the Director of the Community
Development Department and within the same time fix the date and time for a
hearing by the City Council, which date must not be more than thirty (30) days
from the date the appeal or request is filed. The City Clerk shall give notice
of said hearing to the applicant by registered mail and to the Director of the
Community Development Department in writing. The City Clerk shall further
cause a notice of said hearing, describing the place, date, and time thereof,
to be posted on the property involved and published in a newspaper of general-
circulation withing the city at least five (5) days prior thereto.
(b) At the place and time of hearing, the City Council shall examine
all data presented and consider all presentations by interested parties who
desire to be heard. The City Council shall make written findings of the evi-
dence as to whether or not the permit should be granted or the ruling reversed
or mod ified.
(c) The Provisions of this section shall not serve to terminate or
otherwise affect appeals, rulings, permits, or adjustments existing prior to
the adoption of this Code when so duly authorized by the City Council or the
Director of the Community Development Department.
Section 20-3. That a new Section, to be known, numbered and desig-
nated as Section 308. Refund, shall be and the same is hereby added to said
Chapter 3, Permits and Inspetion, and shall read as follows:
Section 308. Refund. In the event that any person shall have ob-
tained a permit or paid a plan checking fee and no portion of the work or
construction covered by such permit shall have been performed or commenced
or such permit shall have been cancelled without any work having been done,
the permittee, upon presentation to the Administrative Authority of a request
therefor in writing shall be entitiled to a refund. All refunds shall require
approval by the City Manager.
Section 26-4. Fees. Before any permit required by this division is
granted, the person making application therefor shall pay to the City Clerk
a fee in an amount established by the resolution of the City Council.
Section 26-5. Uniform Plumbing Code - Technical Codes Filed
in Office of City Clerk. Three (3) full and complete printed copies of said
Code in book form were heretofore by this Council ordered filed in the Office
of the City Clerk of said Cit, open to public inspection; and pursuant to
said order, the said Uniform Plumbing Code, 1982 Edition (with its Appen-
dices) therein referred to was so actually filed in the office of said City
Clerk in the City Hall of said City, and open to public inspection, examin-
ation and use by the public.
Section 26-6. Uniform Plumbing Code - Penalties. Any person vio-
lating or failing to comply with any provision of this Code or committing
any act or omission to act declared to be a misdemeanor or unlawful by this
Code where no specific penalty is provided therefore, shall be punished by
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment not exceed-
ing six (6) months, or both, such fine and imprisonment in the discretion
of the court.
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F.ach day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance of the
City shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 2. All previous Sections of the Lynwood City Code and all other
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any
person or place, 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 the ordinance or its application to
other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared in-
valid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to
the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in the
Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated in the City of Lynwod.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on
the 19th day of February 1985, and finally ordered published at a regu-
lar meeting of said Council held on the 5th day of Max'ch , 1985.
AYES: COUNCILMEN HENNING, MORRIS, ROWE,THOMPSON, BYORK
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
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MAY R OF THE CI Y OF LYNWOOD
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF LY JOOD
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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C y Attorney Patrick P. Import{ina, Director
Community Development Department
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STATE Of CALIFORNIA )
ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1?4II adopted b.y
_ the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on
the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this tith day of march lUB5.
(SEAL)
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City Clerk, City of Lynwood