HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 03261991 - 91-25 ORDINANCE NO.. 91-15
(Amending 1988 Uniform Plumbing Code to Require
Low Water Consumption Water Closets 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 . 6 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 sy stem is altered, modified or renovated. "
(Ord. 91- 15 § 2 . )
SECTION III . OPERATION. This ordinance applies to new buildings
for which an application for a permit to erect,-.a new building or
structure is submitted after the effective date of this
ordinance .
SECTION 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.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED on March 26 , 1991 , by the following
vote:
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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
Administrator
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Deputy i Chair of the Board
[SEAL]
(February 27 , 1991 )
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