Unless a provision explicitly states otherwise, the following terms and phrases, as used in this Ordinance, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section. Terms not defined in this section shall have their ordinary and common meaning or, if applicable, the definitions set forth in the California Building and Plumbing Code or Water Code:
ASTM: | The acronym for the American Society for Testing and Materials International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. |
BACKFLOW DEVICE: | A valve that is opened by the flow of wastewater exiting a structure through a private service to a private lateral but closes when the flow reverses, preventing wastewater from backing up into the structure. All backflow valves shall conform to the specifications and requirements set forth in the California Building and Plumbing Code and all guidelines and policies established by the Building Official to implement this Ordinance. |
BUILDING OFFICIAL: | The Building Official of the City of Placerville or his or her designee. |
BUILDING SEWER: | The part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain and that receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to the public sewer, private sewer, private sewage disposal system, or another point of disposal. Building Sewer and Private Sewer Lateral may be used interchangeably. |
CALIFORNIA PLUMBING CODE: | The most recent addition of the California Plumbing Code, published by the California Building Standards Commission. |
CCTV: | Closed Circuit Television Video. |
CERTIFICATION OF LATERAL COMPLIANCE (COLC): | The certification issued by the Building Official certifying that a PSL complies with the standards set forth in this chapter. A fee for a COLC shall be charged in accordance with the City’s Master Fee Schedule. A COLC is valid only for the PSL at the address specified in the COLC and for a period of not to exceed (20) years. |
CITY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE: | The City Manager or his or her designee. |
CITY ENGINEER: | The City Engineer of the City of Placerville or his or her designee. |
CITY MANAGER: | The City Manager of the City of Placerville or his or her designee. |
CITY’S FEE AND RATE SCHEDULE: | A list of all City of Placerville’s service, penalty, interest, and permit fees, and hourly personnel and equipment rates, as published in the City’s Master Fee Schedule. |
CLEANOUT: | A segment of pipe connected to a PSL and rising to the surface, providing access to the PSL for purposes of inspection and removal of obstructions. (See also “two-way cleanout,” defined herein below.) Each cleanout fitting and each cleanout cap or plug shall be of an approved type. |
COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENT: | A development managed or governed by a Homeowners’ Association. Examples of Common Interest Developments may include condominium projects, planned unit developments, community apartment projects (in which the individual units are owned), and stock cooperatives. |
COMMON BUILDING SEWER: | The part of the plumbing system that is designed and installed to serve more than one building, or sewer (such as an apartment complex or commercial shopping center). |
COMMON SEWER LATERAL: | That part of the Private Sewer Lateral that serves more than one property. The term Common Sewer Lateral includes but is not limited to the Common Building Sewer. |
DIRECTOR: | The Director of the Development Services Department of the City of Placerville, or his or her designee. |
HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION (HOA): | A nonprofit corporation or unincorporated association created for the purpose of managing or governing a Common Interest Development and that operates in accordance with governing documents, whether or not the corporation or association is formally designated or commonly referred to as a Homeowners’ Association. |
ILLICIT WASTE: | Any form of solid or liquid waste or debris that is not comprised of non-sanitary wastewater discharge. This includes, but is not limited to, concrete, asphalt, paint, gravel, tile, nails, miscellaneous building materials, rags, towels, blankets, medical devices or equipment, batteries, toxic waste, diapers, and vegetation. |
LINEAL CONSANGUINITY RELATIONSHIP: | A person is in a Lineal Consanguinity Relationship with another person if, and only if, one person is a direct descendent of the other person. The following are examples of Lineal Consanguinity Relationships: parent and child, grandparent and grandchild, and great-grandparent and great-grandchild. Persons are not in a Lineal Consanguinity Relationship if neither person is directly descended from the other, even if both persons are descended from a common ancestor. The following are not Lineal Consanguinity Relationships: aunt and niece, uncle and nephew, siblings, and cousins of any degree. |
MAIN OR SEWER MAIN: | Any public sewer pipe within a public or private street or right-of-way receiving or intended to receive the discharges of one or more PSLs. No sewer main or private sewer lateral constructed after the effective date of this chapter shall be less than six inches (6") in diameter when laid or constructed in any City street, easement, or right-of-way under the control of the City, except to the lines, grades, and specifications approved by the City Engineer. |
MAINTENANCE: | The routine visual inspection, flushing, rodding, and removal of grease, roots, and debris of sewer to maintain a free-flowing condition. |
NON-SANITARY SEWER CONNECTION: | Anything that directly or indirectly conveys storm water, surface water, roof runoff, intercepted groundwater, or subsurface drainage into the Sanitary Sewer, including, but not limited to, down spouts, yard drains, sump pumps, or other sources of storm water, run-off, or groundwater. |
ORDINANCE: | Means this Private Sewer Lateral Ordinance. |
PARCEL GROUP: | Two or more contiguous or directly adjacent parcels of real property under common ownership. |
PERSON: | An individual, trust, corporation, nonprofit organization, Homeowners’ Association, partnership, firm, joint venture, Limited Liability Company, association, city, county, special district, or other public agency, including the State of California and the United States of America and the political subdivisions thereof. The masculine gender shall include the feminine, the singular shall include the plural where indicated by context. |
PRIVATE SEWER LATERAL (PSL): | A private sewer lateral (PSL) shall have the same meaning as a “private sewer” as defined in the California Plumbing Code, and shall more particularly mean a pipe or pipes and appurtenances that carry wastewater and liquid waste from the structure(s) served to the point of connection at the public sewer line located in the City right-of-way or easement, regardless of whether the structure(s) is [are] publicly or privately owned. A PSL is associated with a parcel, if it, or any portion of it, is located upon the parcel or conveys wastewater and liquid waste from any structure located on that parcel. More than one PSL may be associated with an individual parcel. A PSL may be located on abutting parcels in order to provide access to an available public sewer. |
PRIVATE SEWER MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT (PSMA): | The recorded easement and maintenance agreement required by the California Plumbing Code that clearly state and show that the areas so joined or used shall be maintained as a unit during the time they are so used. Such an agreement shall be recorded in the office of County Recorder as part of the conditions of ownership of said properties, and shall be binding on heirs, successors, and assigns to such properties. A copy of such recorded instrument showing the recording information shall be filed with the City. |
PLUMBING FIXTURES: | Includes sinks, baths, showers, toilets, bidets, and all fixtures and appliances, such as dishwashers and washing machines, from which water or wastewater are discharged as defined by the California Plumbing Code. |
PROPERTY OWNER: | A person that owns a parcel of real property, or that person’s authorized representative including a tenant or contractor. |
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW): | A treatment works, as defined by Section 212 of the Clean Water Act (33 USC Section 1292), which is owned by the City. This definition includes any devices or systems used in the collection, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of wastewater or industrial wastes of a liquid nature and any conveyances, which convey wastewater to a treatment plant. In this chapter, the POTW is the Hangtown Creek Water Reclamation Facility and its collection system. |
REMODELING: | Any improvement, addition, construction, reconstruction, remodeling, modification, or alteration of or to an existing or previously existing structure requiring issuance of building permit. |
REPAIR: | Construction activities performed to bring a part of the PSL (commonly referred to as a “point repair”) into compliance with this chapter consisting of the correction of less than the entire PSL. |
REPLACEMENT: | The construction activities performed to bring a PSL into compliance with this chapter consisting of the replacement, lining, or pipe bursting of the complete length of the PSL. “Replaced” has the same meaning as “replacement” where used in this chapter and the California Plumbing Code. |
SANITARY SEWER: | Sewer pipes that convey wastewater from a Structure and to which storm water, groundwater or surface water is not intentionally admitted. The Sanitary Sewer includes public Sewer Mains, and PSLs. |
SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOW (SSO): | A condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment prior to reaching sewage treatment facilities. |
SANITARY SEWER STANDARD SPECIFICATION FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION: | The City of Placerville document which governs sewer design and construction work by private individuals, public agencies, and businesses within the boundaries of the City of Placerville. The jurisdiction of the City of Placerville includes the entire sewerage system and its appurtenances from the point of connection with each building’s plumbing to the discharge terminus of the treatment plant outfall. The Placerville Municipal Code and all uncodified ordinances of the City of Placerville shall be considered a part of these Specifications and all plans, profiles, cut sheets, right-of-way documents, and specifications shall conform to the standards and requirements herein established. |
SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM: | Sanitary sewer system shall have the same meaning as Publicly Owned Treatment Works as defined herein above. |
SECTION: | A section of this chapter unless otherwise specified. |
SEWER LATERAL COMPLIANCE PLAN: | A plan establishing fair and consistent policies and procedures for the inspection, testing, repair, and replacement of all defective PSLs and the issuance of a “Certificate of Lateral Compliance.” |
SEWER MAIN: | A publicly owned Sanitary Sewer that receives flows from PSLs. The Sewer Main does not include any portion of a PSL. |
STRUCTURE: | Any building or facility that is required to be provided with public sewer service or that is actually provided with public sewer service, or that is served by a PSL. |
SUBDIVIDED: | To cause land to be divided into separate developed or developable lots that are or may be owned by different persons. |
TIME EXTENSION CERTIFICATION: | A Certification issued by the Director in connection with a Title Transfer transaction to a Property Owner, or to a transferee, that extends the deadline to obtain a Certification not to exceed 180 days from the date the Time Extension Certification is issued. |
TITLE TRANSFER: | The sale or transfer of an entire real property estate or the fee interest in that real property estate, excluding the sale or transfer of partial interest such as leasehold. The following are not Title Transfers for purposes of this chapter: (1) A transfer from one co-owner to one or more other co-owners, or from one or more co-owners into or from a revocable trust if the trust is for the benefit of the grantor or grantors. (2) A transfer made by a trustee to fund an inter vivos trust. (3) A transfer made to a spouse, or to a registered domestic partner as defined in Section 297 of the California Family Code, or to a person or persons in a Lineal Consanguinity Relationship with one or more of the transferors. (4) A transfer between spouses or registered domestic partners resulting from a decree of dissolution of marriage or domestic partnership or resulting from a decree of legal separation or from a property settlement agreement incidental to a decree. (5) A transfer from a Property Owner to a financial institution as a result of a foreclosure or similar process. A transfer from a financial institution to a new Property Owner is a Title Transfer for purposes of this chapter. |
TWO-WAY CLEANOUT: | A “Y” or “V”-shaped segment of pipe connected to a PSL and rising to the surface, providing access to the PSL in both directions for purposes of inspection and removal of obstructions and meeting the specifications and requirements of the California Plumbing Code. |
VERIFICATION INSPECTION: | A CCTV inspection to verify that all PSLs associated with the parcel comply with this chapter. The CCTV inspection of the PSL must be from the building drain cleanout serving the structure(s) to the connection to the public sewer main. Verification Inspections shall be performed by a licensed contractor. |
WASTEWATER: | The liquid and water-carried industrial wastes and wastewater from residential dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial and manufacturing facilities, and institutions, whether treated or untreated, which are contributed to the POTW. (Ord. 1712, 12-12-2023) |