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ORDINANCE No. 1825
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
AMENDING CHAPTER 15.10 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO CLARIFY RIGHTS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
The CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLINGAME does hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. The current sewer regulations were adopted in 2000 and have the served the
City well. However, some revision is necessary to clearly require that side sewers, those sewer
lilies illnning between a building and the sewer main, must conform to the requirements of the City
as determined by the Director of Public Works. In addition, some persons have assumed that the
City is responsible for maintenance of all or a part of the these side sewers; however, the City has
only provided emergency service to clear the lateral sewer, which is the sewer line between the
property line and the sewer main, and has not accepted maintenance or repair responsibility for the
lateral sewer or any other portion of the side sewer. This ordinance makes clear that the City only
maintains or repairs lateral sewers that are in full compliance with all City and other requirements
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only when the City has expressly agreed to provide this maintenance or repair. The ordinance
further provides that acceptance of sewer service from the City entitles the City to enter the
propert
y receiving the service to inspect, repair, or otherwise work on the lateral sewer to that
propert
y. Finally, the ordinance makes clear that deposit of fats, oils, or grease in the sanitary
sewer system is prohibited.
Section 2. Anew Section 15.10.024 is added to read as follows:
15.10.24 Planning, design, and construction standards.
Public sewers and side sewers shall be planned, designed, constructed, installed, and
repaired in accordance with the plans and specifications established by the director of public works.
Section 3. Section 15.10.032 is amended to read as follows:
15.10.032 Maintenance of sewer laterals.
(a) The city shall not be responsible for maintenance or repair of any lateral sewer unless
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the lateral sewer conforms to all of the requirements of this chapter and other applicable city
regulations and the city has expressly determined to provide this maintenance or repair.
(b) The city shall have the right to enter onto private property for the purpose of inspection,
maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement %J the portion of the lateral sewer that may be
maintained by the city.
Section 4. Subsection 15.10.038(c) is amended to read as follows:
(c) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to a public sewer any waste,
including any fats, oils, or grease, that creates a stoppage, plugging, breakage, any reduction in the
sewer capacity, or any other damage to sewers or sewerage facilities of the city.
Section 5. Subsection 15.10.040(c) (Specifically prohibited wastes) is amended to read
as follows:
(c) Any solids or viscous substances of such size or in such quantity that they may cause
flow obstruction in any part of the sewer or be detrimental to proper wastewater treatment plant
operations. Such substances include but are not limited to, asphalt, cement, dead animals, offal,
ashes, sand, mud, straw, industrial process. shavings, metal, glass, rages, feathers, tar, plastics,
wood, whole blood, paunch manure, bones, hair and fl
eshings, entrails, fats, oils, grease, paper
dishes, paper cups, milk containers, or similar paper products, either whole or ground, and resins;
or
Section 6. This ordinance shall be published as required by law.
Vice Mayor
I, DORIS MORTENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 2 day
of June, 2008, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting 01
the City Council held on the 16`" day
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of June, 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK, DEAL, KEIGHRAN, NAGEL, O'MAHONY
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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