Ordinance No. 264 - Superseded ORDINANCE NO. 264
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 24
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
SEWERS, THE INSTALLATION OF SEWER LATERALS AND PUBLIC
SEWER MAIN EXTENSIONS, PROVIDING FOR THE EMPLOYMENT
OF A SANITARY INSPECTOR. PROVIDING PERMITS AND FIXING
FEES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF SANITARY SEWER LATERALS
AND REGULATING PLUMBING, DRAINAGE AND SEWERING IN
THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District, E1 Dorado County, California, as follows:
1. That Ordinance No. 24, as amended, of South Tahoe Public Utility
District be further amended as follows:
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
Sec. 1.14 is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 1.14. Sewage Works are all facilities for collection, pumping,
treating, and disposing of reclaimed water and solids."
Sec. !.20 House Sewer is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 1.20. Building Sewer is any sewer or drain beginning at the
plumbing or drainage outlets of any building and running to the property line."
Sec. 1.26 is hereby added as follows:
"Sec. 1.26. City_ is City of South Lake Tahoe."
ARTICLE II General Provisions
Sec. 2.1 is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 2.1. Rules and R~gulations. The following rules and regu-
lations respecting sewer construction and disposal of sewage and drainage of
buildings and connection to the sewage works of said District are hereby adopted,
and all work in respect thereto shall be performed according to the Uniform
Plumbing Code or as herein required and not otherwise." Sec. 2.2 is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 2.2. Purpose. This Ordinance is intended to provide certain
minimum standards, provisions and requirements for design, methods of
construction and use of materials in sanitary sewage facilities in side sewers
hereafter installed, altered or repaired. This Ordinance shall not apply retro-
actively and, in the event of an alteration or repair hereafter made, it shall
apply only to the new materials and methods used therein."
ARTICLE IV PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Sec. 4.1 is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 4.1. Sewer Not Available. Where a public sewer is not
available under provisions of Section 3.5, the building sewer shall be connected
to a private sewage disposal system complying with the rules, regulations and
ordinances of any or all Governmental Agencies.
Sec. 4.2. Permit Required. "Be deleted ."
Sec. 4.3. Inspection Required. Be deleted ."
Sec. 4.4. Design Requirements . ,, Be deleted."
Sec. 4.6. Cost of Maintenance By Owner. "Be deleted.,,
Sec. 4.7. Additional Requirements. "Be deleted .,,
ARTICLE V BUILDING SEIAZERS, LATERAL SEVVERS AND
CONNECTIONS
Sec. 5.5 Building drain is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 5.5. Buildinc~ Sewer. Whenever possible the building sewer
should be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No
building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three (3) feet of any bearing
wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford
protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in
straight alignment in so far as possible. Changes in direction shall be made
only with properly curved pipe ~nd fittings."
Sec. 5.6. is hereby amended as follo~vs:
"Sec. 5.6 ~oints and Connections. All excavations required for
the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench ~vork unless other%vise
approved by the Inspector. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in
accordance ~vith ASTM specification (C12-19) except that no backfill shall be
placed until the work has been inspected."
ARTICLE VI PUBLIC SEWER CONSTRUCTION
Sec. 6.7 Compliance ~vith local regulations is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 6.7. Compliance with Local Regulations. Any person con-
structing a sewer within a street shall comply with all State, City and County
laws, ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to the cutting of pavement,
opening, barricading, lighting and protecting of trenches, backfilling and repav-
lng thereof and shall obtain all permits and pay all fees required by the department
having jurisdiction prior to the issuance of a permit by the District."
ARTICLE VIII PERMITS AND FEES
Sec. 8.2. Application for Permit is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 8.2. Application for Permit . Any person, legally entitled to
apply for and receive a permit shall make such application on forms provided by
the District for that purpose. He shall give a description of the character of
the ~vork proposed to be done and the location, ownership, occupancy and use
of the permises in connection there%vith. The District may require plans, speci-
fications or drawings and such other information as may be deemed necessary.
If the District determines that the plans, specifications, dra~vings,
descriptions, or information furnished by the applicant is in compliance ~vith the
ordinance, rules and regulations of the District, it shall issue the permit applied
for upon payment of the required fees as hereinafter fixed."
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Sec. 8.5. Classes of Permits is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 8.5. Classes of Permits. There shall be two (2) classes of
permits, as follows:
a. Side sewer construction permit.
b. Public sewer construction permit"
Sec. 8.7. Fees and Bond - Single family resident building sewer is hereby
amended as follows:
"Sec. 8.7. Fees and Bond - Side sewer construction permit.
a. A connection charge as fixed by the rules, regulations and
ordinances of the District shall be paid to the District by the
person desiring connection to the District sewer system.
b. A fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars shall be paid to the District
for issuing a permit to connect and inspect a house sewer."
Sec. 8.8 Fees and Bond - Multi-family residential, commercial or
industrial sewer connection.
"To be deleted."
Sec. 8.10. Fees - Private sewage disposal.
"To be deleted."
Sec. 8.19. Street excavation permit is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 8.19. Street Excavation Permit. A separate permit must be
secured from the State, County, City or any other person having jurisdiction
thereover by owners or contractors intending to excavate in a public street for the
purpose of installing sewers or making sewer connections."
Sec. 8.21. Time limits on permits is hereby amended as follows:
"Sec. 8.21. Time Limits on Permits. A permit for construction of a
side or house sewer shall be null and void:
a. If application is not accepted by County or City within seven (7)
calendar days for construction permit for the proposed
improvement to be served by the sewer; or
b. If the Countyor. Cityvoids orcancels eit~herthe applicat, ion or
permit for construction of the proposed improvement to be served
by the sewer."
2. This Ordinance shall take effect upon the expiration of thirty (30) days
after its passage and shall be posted by the Clerk of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District at three (3) public places in said District at least one week before the
expiration of said period after its passage and shall further be published in the
Tahoe Daily Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation one (1) time only, at least
one il) week before the expiration of said period.
3. This Ordinance amends only Sec. 1.14, 1.20, 1.26, Sec. 2.1, 2.2,
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 5.5, 5.6, 6.7, Sec. 8.2, Sec. 8.5, Sec. 8.7,
8.8, Sec. 8.10, Sec. 8.19 and Sec. 8.21 of Ordinance No. 24, of South Tahoe
Public Utility District. This Ordinance amends Ordinance No. 81 and 130 in their
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entirety and supersides said Ordinance No. 81 and 130 of South Tahoe Public
Utility District. This Ordinance amends and supersedes section 2 of Ordinance
No. 138 of South Tahoe Public Utility District. In all other respects said
Ordinance No. 24, as modified by Ordinance No. 138 and 184 is hereby ratified,
confirmed and in full force and effect.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, at a duly held meeting of the Board of Directors
of the SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT on the 3rd day of February,
1977, by the following vote:
AYES, Directors:
NOES, Directors:
Hegarty, Fesler, Kashuba,Fieldcamp and Cocking
None
ABSENT, Directors: None
Edward Hegarty ;" Pres{~e~oJ th~2Board
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC U~ILITY [DISTRICT
ATTEST:
David W. Callahan, Clerk and Ex-officio
Secretary of the Board
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
ORDINANCE NO.264
State of California
County of E1 Dorado
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CHESTER A. HORNING~ being first duly sworn,
deposes and says:
That for and on behalf of the Clerk and ex-Officio
Secretary of the South Tahoe Public Utility District affiant posted
copies of Ordinance No. 26_~4, in form attached hereto and by
reference made a part hereof, in three public places in the District,
as follows:
STATELINE POST OFFICE STATION,
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA
BIJOU POST OFFICE STATION.,
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA
TAHOE VALLEY POST OFFICE STATION~.
South Lake Tahoe, California
That said posting was completed on the 7,th. day
of February 1977.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
7th day of February 1977. ~ ~...,...,,...............,,....,.........~
/'~ ) '-' ,'.~-..~"~. OFFICIAL
'. · ,..~ ~' -- / / // ~ ~ ~1 NOTARY PUBLIC - CALIFORNIA
' ~ry P ~bli~ in and for the ~ounty of ,'
E1 DoradO, State of California.
My commission expires November 19, 1978.