HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2472ORDINANCE NO. 2472
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING TITLE 8 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 8.62 THERETO
DIRECTING THE HEALTH OFFICER TO REVIEW AND
CERTIFY ALL PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEMS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
Title 8 of the Municipal Code of the City of Bakersfield
is hereby amended by adding thereto a new Chapter 8.62 to provide as
follows:
Chapter 8.62
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEMS - REVIEW
Sections:
8.62.010
8.62.020
Private Sewer Systems - Require Health Review and
Approval
Health Officer to Review and Certify Approval or
Disapproval
8.62.030 Health Officer to Charge Fees for Review
8.62.010 Private Sewer Systems-Require Health Review and Approval.
All persons proposing to construct, install, maintain, operate or
use a private sewer system, which shall include any sewerage system
of any kind or description, utilizing any method of disposal other
than by delivery into the sewer system of the City of Bakersfield,
shall, prior to obtaining his or its final entitlement from the
City, first submit the plans therefor, together with supporting
data and information, to the Health Officer for review and approval
and shall provide any additional data and information required by
the Health Officer.
The words "final entitlement" for the purposes of this
chapter shall mean any approval, permit, license or other action by
the City which entitles the applicant to proceed with a division of
land, construction of buildings or other structures, development,
plan or any use of land or structures requiring approval, permit,
license or other action by the City which includes, or necessarily
or conditionally involves, the construction, installation, mainten-
ance, operation or use of a private sewer system as hereinbefore
described and defined.
The foregoing provisions shall not include, and shall not
be construed to include private sewer systems which are existing
and in use on the effective date of this chapter, unless such pre-
existing private sewer system is to be, or is proposed to be,
utilized for a new or expanded use or additional hookups or users.
8.62.020 Health Officer to Review and Certify Approval or
Disapproval. Upon submission to him of plans with supporting data
and information, together with any additional data and information
required by him as a condition of submittal, the Health Officer
shall review the same for all aspects thereof which may reasonably
appear to bear any relationship to the public health or safety or
to the health or safety of
completion of said review,
writing to the Director of
the proposed users of said system. Upon
the Health Officer shall certify in
Fire and Development Services of the
City his approval, conditional approval or disapproval of the
proposed system. In the case of disapproval, the Health Officer
shall set forth reasons for the disapproval. The Community Develop-
ment Director shall be responsible for the dissemination of that
information to any and all officers and departments of the City
with responsibility for the granting of final entitlement for the
project or proposal for which the private sewer system is proposed.
In the performance of his duties pursuant to this chapter,
the Health Officer may, and is hereby authorized to, delegate on-
site inspection duties to such officers and employees of the City
as he deems necessary subject to the approval and with the con-
currence of the Director of Fire and Development Services.
8.62.030 Health Officer to Charge Fees For Review. The Health
Officer is hereby authorized and directed to charge and collect
fees for the review of proposed private sewer systems as described
in this chapter. Said fees shall be the same as those charged for
identical services within the unincorporated territory of the
County of Kern. Upon collection, said fees shall be deposited with
the Treasurer of the said County as and for full compensation for
the services required by this chapter.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall become effective thirty
from and after the date of its passage.
(30) days
.......... 000 ..........
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 the 10th day of January , 197~, by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCilMEN ~P~'~'~I, CHRISTENSEN, MEDDER$,
ABSENT: COUNCI LME"L
a, BSIAIN[NG ( OUNCIL~,~N: N ~ ~
CITY C~RK nd E~ Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED this 10th /day of January
'~ o~ke City of Bakersfield
, 1979
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY of t~City of Bakersfield
AffiXave! of r uan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ~
County of Kern ~ss.
H. E. BERGEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on .........................................4..gZ.q..g.~Z...~._1. ......................................19ff.~... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, t~qe and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ...........................J.a~l.a.~7.y...!.~. ..................19Z.9....., which ordinance
was numbere~ ...... 24Z2 ......... New Series, and entified:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING TITLE 8 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 8.62 THERETO
DIRECTING THE HEALTH OFFICER TO REVIEW AND
CERTIFY ALL PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEMS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
l(~l;h. day of ........ O'a:~.u.q,.r.y ........1979