HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03261991 - H.3 ORDINANcE NO. 91- 15
(Amending 1988 Uniform Plumbing Code to Require
Low Water Consumption Water Clpsets' and Urinals )
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) : '
SECTION I . SUMMARY. This ordinance amends the 1988 edition of
the Uniform Plumbing Code, as adopted and amended in Ordinance
No. 90-18 , to require the use of low flow water closets and
urinals in new buildings .
SECTION II . Section 78-5 . 913 is added to the County Ordinance
Code, to read:
78-5 . 913 UPC Sec . 913 , low water consumption water closets
and urinals . Section 913 is added to the Uniform Plumbing Code,
to read:
"Sec . 913 . All new buildings shall use .water closets and
related flushometers, if any, which use no more than 1 .5 gallons
of water and urinals and related flushometers, if any, which use
no more than one ( 1 ) gallon of water. As used in this section,
"new building" includes .existing buildings in which the water
drainage syystem is altered, modified or renovated. "
(Ord. 91- I5 § 2 . )
SECTION III . ' OPERATION. This ordinance applies to new buildings
for which an application for a permit to erecta new building or
structure is. submitted after the effective date of this
ordinance.
szarION iv. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30
days after passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be
published once with the names of supervisors voting for and
against it in the Contra Costa Times, a newspaper published in
this County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on March 26, 1991 by the following
'vote:
.AYES: Supervisors Fanden, Schroder, McPeak, Torlakson.
NOES : None
ABSENT: Sur_ervisor Powers
.ABSTAIN: None -
ATTEST: Phil Batchelor,
Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County r
Administrator 1
By:
Deputy Chair of the Board
[SEAL)
(February 27 , 1991 )
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