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AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTER 15.28 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE AND ADOPTING AND
ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 15.28 THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 15.28 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code relating to the Uniform Plumbing
Code is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2.
follows:
A new Chapter 15.28 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is added to read as
Chapter 15.28
UNIFORM PLUM.BING CODE
Sections:
15.28.010
15.28.020
15.28.025
15.28.030
15.28.040
15.28.050
15.28.060
15.28.070
15.28.080
Adoption.
Modifications.
Section 404.0 amended - Overflows.
Table 4-1: Amended -- Minimum plumbing facilities.
Section 510.2 Added -- Waterheater Floor Support.
Section 609.3.1 Amended -- Installation, inspection and testing.
609.4.1 Testing.
Section 713.4 Amended -- Sewer required.
Section 1212.0 Added -- Appliance connectors.
15.28.010 Adoption.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, that certain plumbing code known and
designated as the Uniform Plumbing Code (with appendices A through I), as modified by the 1998
Edition of the Califomia Building Standards Code, sponsored and copyrighted by the International
Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, a copy of which has been filed with the
Building Department of the City for use and examination by the public, is adopted by reference
and enacted as the plumbing code of the City for the purpose stated therein.
15.28.020 Modifications.
The sections of the Uniform Plumbing Code, 1997 Edition, mentioned in Sections
15.28.025 through 15.28.100 of this chapter, as adopted by reference, are modified and amended
as provided in Sections 15.28.025 through 15.28.100 of this chapter.
15.28.025
15.28.030
Section 404.0 amended - Overflows.
Section 404.0 is amended by adding a paragraph as follows:
Overflows are required on all bathtub installations.
Table 4-1: Amended - Minimum plumbing facilities.
--all assembly type buildings as defined in the Uniform Building Code
Definitions, shall have flush valves for water closets.
Table 4-1 is amended by adding footnote 15 which states: Flush valve requirements
under Chapter 2,
Exception: Restricted rest rooms for employees only.
15.28.040 Section 510.2 Added -- Water Heater Floor Support.
Add a new paragraph to read:
All gas fired water heaters installed on combustible construction shall have floor
under water heater made of non-combustible material approved by the Administrative Authority.
15.28.050 Section 609.3.1 Amended -- Installation, inspection and
Section 609.3.1 is amended to read as follows:
609.3.1 No water piping shall be installed within a concrete slab or in the ground
under a concrete slab of a building.
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Exceptions:
If required by structural conditions, water piping may be installed in
chases, sleeves or ducts with the prior approval of the administrative
authority. All piping shall be chased, sleeved or ducted the entire length
within a concrete slab or in the ground under a concrete slab of a building.
Chase, sleeves or ducts shall extend six (6) inches above grade at both
ends.
2. Water piping for swimming pools and/or spas.
15.28.060 Section 609.4.1 Testing
Recirculating water for swimming pools shall be constructed and installed under the same
standards and requirements as potable water piping.
15.28.070 Section 713.4 Amended -- Sewer required.
Sections 713.4 is amended to read as follows:
713.4 The public sewer may be considered as not being available when such public
sewer or any building or any exterior drainage facility connected thereto, is located more than one
thousand (1,000) feet from the nearest property line of any proposed building or exterior drainage
facility on any lot or premises which abuts and is served by such public sewer·
Exceptions:
1. The above requirement may be reduced to two hundred (200) feet if the
proposed development is for residential living units and is four units or
less.
2. The requirements may be waived or modified by the Building Official when
strict compliance may cause extreme hardship.
15.28.080 Section 1212.0 added -- Appliance connectors.
Add a new paragraph (9) to read:
All appliance connectors installed in the exterior application, except mobile home
gas flex, shall be of rigid piping or stainless steel connectors that have been approved by the
appropriate testing agency.
SECTION 3.
This Ordinance shall be posted h~ accordance with the Bakersfield Municipal Code and
shall become effective thir~ (30) days from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the
Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on
dUN 3 0 1999 , by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBER CARSON,
SULLIVAN. SALVAGGIO
COUNCILMEMBER NO5 ~d ~-_
COUNCILMEMBER
COUNCILMEMBER
DEMOND, MAGGARD, COUCH, ROWLES,
of the
APPROVED JUN 3 0 1999
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY
BY: C
CARL HERNANDEZ III
Assistant City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
PAMELA A. MCCARTHY, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on the 1st day of July , 1999 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall,
a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 3911 , passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 30th day of June 1999 , and
entitled:
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTER 15.28 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE AND
ADOPTING AND ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 15.28 THERETO.
/s/PAMELA A. MCCARTHY
City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield
By: --,
DEPUTY City Clerk
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July 1, 1999