(a) The unauthorized discharge of a pollutant into the storm drain system is unlawful and prohibited. All discharges of material other than stormwater must be in compliance with NPDES Permit No. CAS063339 or any other NPDES permit issued by the State of California.
(b) Unless in full compliance with a discharge permit, it is unlawful to and no person shall:
(1) Construct, use, maintain, operate and/or continue to utilize an illicit connection. This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection.
(2) Cause, allow or facilitate the continuing existence of an illicit discharge.
(3) Act, cause, or permit any agent, employee, or contractor to construct, maintain, operate or utilize an illicit connection, or cause, allow or facilitate an illicit discharge.
(4) Use the City’s storm drain system for the discharge or disposal of wastes (including, but not limited to yard trimmings, cut grass or paint clean-up).
(5) Block or modify the natural flow of water in the City’s storm drain system or alter, enlarge, change or remove any part of the City’s storm drain system.
(6) Place any loose or unconsolidated material along the side of or within the storm drain system, or placed so close to the side of a storm drain system channel or facility as to cause a diversion of flow, or to create a reasonable probability such material will be removed by or transported by stormwaters passing through the storm drain system.
(7) Throw, deposit, leave, maintain, keep, or permit to be thrown, deposited, kept, or maintained, in or upon any public or private driveway, parking area, street, alley, sidewalk, or component of the storm drain system, any refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles and accumulations, so that the same may cause or contribute to a pollutant entering the storm drain system or watercourse.
Any owner, occupant, or person in charge of day-to-day operations of any private property who fails to remove pollutants within a reasonable time, as determined by the director, may be charged with a violation of this section.
(c) It is unlawful to, and no person shall, fail to take every reasonable step, consistent with or as set forth in an approved individualized best management practices manual, or if none, the written standardized City best management practices manual on file by the Public Works Department, to reduce to the maximum extent practicable the discharge of stormwater containing any pollutant.
(d) It is unlawful to, and no person shall, engage in any activity which will, or may, result in a pollutant or pollutants entering the storm drain system or watercourses, unless, after notice from the City, all practicable measures to reduce such pollutants have been undertaken.
(e) It is unlawful for an owner of real property subject to, and their successors or assigns, or a named responsible party in, a City approved stormwater quality master plan or a stormwater pollution control plan to fail to implement and adhere to the terms, conditions and requirements of such a plan.
(§ 1, Ord. 1343-NS, eff. October 14, 1999)