Ordinance - 1487ORDINANCE NO. 1487
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE
IN ORDER TO CONFORM CERTAIN SECTIONS OF
THE ORIGINALLY ADOPTED ORDINANCES
WHEREAS the City Council on the 13th day of November, 1979 adopted and
enacted the West Covina Municipal Code and repealed all ordinances on or before Ordinance
Number 1426, except as provided; and 11
WHEREAS upon subsequent review of the adopted Code there appeared to be
a number of errors and omissions in the Code; and
WHEREAS these errors and omissions were to be included in the Code and had
been adopted by the City Council through the necessary and appropriate procedures
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. That Section 19-46 of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 19-46. Costs and fees paid to city.
The City shall deduct from any deposit made or maintained by a permittee
under this article:
• (a) The additional inspection fees as indicated in the schedule of fees as
set from time to time by resolution of the city council if required and not
otherwise paid;
(b) The cost to the city of refilling any excavation or removing any
obstruction;
(c) The cost to the city of resurfacing the street, alley, sidewalk or other
public place, as indicated in the schedule of fees as set from time to time
by resolution of the city council;
(d) The cost of placing and maintaining of any lights, barricades or other
safety equipment."
SECTION 2. That Section 22-131 of the West Covina Municipal Code per-
taining to determining and declaring that the prima facie speed limit shall be amended to set
forth the prima facie speed I imit on the following streets or parts of streets:
"La Puente Road from Nogales Street to the easterly city limits - 40 mph
Lark Ellen Avenue from Maplegrove Street to Pass and Vovina Road - 35 mph"
• SECTION 3. That Section 23-22 (b) of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
"(b) No person shall discharge, deposit or cause to be discharged or deposited
surface. drainage or storm waters into a public sewer unless specific permission"
is first obtained from the owners and operators of such public sewer authorized
to grant such permission. It shall also be unlawful for any person, including
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any public official or employee, or any person otherwise authorized by
law to enter public sewers carrying sanitary sewage and/or industrial waste,
to construct or authorize construction of a connection to a public sewer or
to remove a.,manhole cover, for the purpose of permitting or causing to be
discharged into such public sewer, flood, surface or storm waters."
SECTION 4. That Section 23-39 (a) and Section 23-39 (e) of the West
Covina Municipal Code be amended to read as follows:
"(a) The. service or utilities building of a trailer court shall be connected to
the public sewer by a six (6) inch house connection sewer laid on a grade of
not less than one-fourth inch per foot if it serves more than one hundred eighty
(180) fixture units, as shown in section 23-37. The laterals through the trailer
locations may be constructed with four (4) inch pipe, laid on a grade of not
less than one-fourth inch rise per, foot."
"(e) The branches to these inlets may be made with either two (2) inch cast
iron soil pipe, laid on one-fourth inch rise per foot, and extending not more
than two (2),feet from the vent to the trap, or, three (3) inch cast iron soil
pipe, or, four (4) inch vitrified clay pipe or cast iron soil pipe, not to exceed
fifteen (15) feet in length, laid on one-fourth inch rise per foot. If laid
steeper than one-fourth inch perfoot, or longer than above provided, they
shall be separately vented."
SECTION 5. That Section 23-40 of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
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"Sec. 23-40. Reimbursement for sewers - Map required.
Every person who is to receive reimbursement for sewers to be constructed
which will serve properties outside of a subdivision under an agreement with
the city council, shall be required to furnish the city engineer with a map
showing all properties outside of the subdivision benefiting from the sewers
to be constructed. Such map shall show the dimensions of all parcels affected
and the location of the proposed sewer. The scale of the map shall be one
inch equals one hundred (100) feet and the map shall be drawn with ink on
tracing cloth on a sheet or sheets with outside dimensions of eighteen (18)
inches in width and twenty-four (24) inches in length."
SECTION 6. That Section 23-141 (a) and (b) of the West Covina Municipal
Code be amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 23-141. Same - Pipe joints.
(a) All cast iron pipe joints for house connection sewers shall be caulked and
jointed with pig lead to the satisfaction of the city engineer and in accordance
with Section 306-1.2..6(e) of the latest edition of the "Standard Specifications
for Public Works Construction," adopted by the city council and on file in the
office of the city clerk.
• (b) Approved joint material for clay pipe shall be as specified in section
208-2 of said "Standard Specifications."
SECTION 7. That Section 23-161 (f) of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
"(f) Sewer -in state highway. The person obta,ihfna a house connection sewer
permit from the city engineer for the construction 4 a sewer in a state highway
shall, before commencing work thereon, obtain a permit from the State
of California, Business and Transportation Agency. (Department of
Transportation)."
SECTION 8. That Section 23-163 of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
. "Sec. 23-163. When not required.
The provisions of this article requiring permits shall not apply to the chief
engineer of any county sanitation district of Los Angeles County or to con-
tractors constructing public sewers and appurtenances under contracts
awarded and entered into under proceedings had or taken pursuant to any
of the special procedure statutes of this state providing for the construction
of sewers and the assessing of the expenses thereof against the lands bene-
fited. thereby, or under contracts between the contractor and the city council."
SECTION 9. That Section 23-60 (b) and (c) of the West Covina Municipal
Code be amended to. read as follows:
"(b) Extra strength for sewers more than ten (10) feet and not more than
twenty-five (25) feet in depth.
(c) Reinforced with concrete cradle or concrete encasement for sewers
more than twenty-five (25) feet in depth."
SECTION 10. That Section 23-234 (a) of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as foll6ws:
"(a) Before water is supplied to any premises, the customer shall make appli-
cation to the city engineer. Unless the water service later charge has prev-
iously been paid or waived, the city, as a condition to granting such application
al nd''furnishing water to the premises, shall require payment therefor at the
minimum charges for both Zones I and II, established by resolution of the city
council."
SECTION 11. That Section 23-254 of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 23-254. Rate zones.
For the purpose of establishing water rates, the area served shall be designated
Zone I and Zone II.
(a) Zone I shall include all area below elevation six hundred thirty five (635)
feet.
(b) Zone II shall include all area between elevation six hundred thirty-five
feet and elevation nine hundred (900) feet."
SECTION 12. That Section 23-255 (d) of the West Covina Municipal Code
be amended to read as follows:
• "(d) The city engineer may require a deposit for every service meter in an
amount equal to four (4) times the monthly standby charge of said meter. The
city engineer may require a similar deposit for any service that has been delin-
quent for more than two (2) consecjtive months or as a condition precedent to
resumption of service where service has been discontinued for nonpayment of
service charges. Such deposit shall be refunded when the service is discon-
tinued, provided all charges to the applicant by the city have been paid. The
city engineer may waive all or any part of the deposit for an applicant who
furnishes evidence satisfactory to the city engineer that he is the owner of
property or who furnishes evidence of an acceptable credit rating."
SECTION 13. That Section 23-289 of the West Covina Municipal Code be
amended to read as follows:
• "Sec. 23-289. Public hearing by council re necessity.
(a) Upon the receipt of the report of the city engineer as provided for in
section 23-288, the council may call a public hearing to ascertain whether
the public necessity, health, safety or welfare requires the removal of poles,
overhead wires and associated overhead structures within designated areas
of the city, and the underground installation of wires and facilities for
supplying electric, communication or similar or associated service. The
city clerk shall notify each property owner within the designated areas, as
shown on the last equalized assessment roll, and utilities concerned, by
mail of the time and place of such hearing at least ten (10) days prior to
the date thereof.
(b) At the hearing all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be
heard. The hearing may be continued from time to time as may be necessary.
The decision of the council shall be final and conclusive."
SECTION 14. That Section 23-1 be added to Chapter 23, Article I of the
West Covina Municipal Code to read as follows:
"Sec. 23-1 Constitutionality.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter is for any
reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the re-
maining portions of this Chapter. The Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted the Chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase
thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
clauses or phrases be declared invalid. --
SECTION 15. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of August , 1980.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
hereby certify that the- foregoing Ord -Hance No. 1487 was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of West Covina, at a regular meeting thereof held on the
25th day of August 1980, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Tennant, Tice, Shearer,. Changell, Browne
NOES: Councilmen: !`lone
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Clerk
City Attorney
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State of California. )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City of West Covina. )
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
West Covina, State of California, do hereby certify
that a true and a.ccura.te copy of Ordinance No. IYR%
was published, pursuant to law, in the West Covina.
Tribune, a. newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of West Covina..
Ja:ne,f
Berry,
Dep
City Clerk
City
of West
Co
na, California
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