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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1719 ._. ~..~~...~,~~ v< <1,'" \.o.J..J. L U~ '''<'-''VolA ~NIJING CERTAIN BUILDING REGULATIONS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE VIII OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE. ADOPTING THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1979 EDITION, UNIFORM BUILDING CODE STANDARDS, 1979 EDITION, UNIFORM MECHANICAL CODE, 1976 EDITION, AND WITH CHANGES, ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS THERETO, AND AMENDING, ADDING AND DELETING CERTAIN BUILDING REGULATIONS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE VIII OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding to Article VIII thereof, a new Chapter 0 which shall read as set forth as Chapter 0 in Exhibit "A" which is attached hereto, and which Chapter 0 is by this reference incorporated herein. SECTION 2. Chapter 1 of Article VIII of the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as set forth as Chapter 1 in Exhibit "An which is attached hereto and which Chapte~ 1 is by this reference incorporated herein. SECTION 3. The Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Article VIII to read as set forth as Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 in Exhibit "A" which is attached hereto, and which Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 are by this reference incorporated herein. SECTION 4. Part 1 of Chapter 8 of Article VIII of the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. Chapter 8 of Article VIII of the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending the title of Chapter 8 to read, "Disaster Shelters and Underground Utilities". -1- 1719 SECTION 6. No person shall violate any provision, or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person violating any of the provisions or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under any provision of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jailor County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of the ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted by such person and shall be punishable accordingly. SECTION 7. In addition to the penalties provided in the preceding Section, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by the City, summarily abated as such, and each day such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense. SECTION 8. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of com- petent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Arcadia hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 9. Neither the adoption of this ordinance Qor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal pro- visions applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. -2- 1719 " ~, - ~~~__ .......................... .............. .....J...J..::i l,..U the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Arcadia within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Arcadia at its regular meeting held on the 5th day of May, 1981. SIGNED AND APPROVED this 5th day of May, 1981. ayor of the C~ty of Arcadia ~~~ C~ty Clerk of the C~ty of Arcad~a I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, California, held on the 5th day of May, 1981, by the affirmative vote 'of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Dring, Haltom, PellegrinQ, Saelid & Gilb NOES: None ABSENT: None -3- 1719 ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 0 PART I BUILDING REGULATIONS GENERAL REGULATIONS CREA TION OF DIVISION 80 I O. CREATION OF DIVISION. There is hereby established in the Planning Department of the City of Arcadia the Building and Safety Division which sholl be under the jurisdiction of the Building Official. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 0 PART 2 BUILDING REGULA TIONS GENERAL REGULATIONS DEFINITIONS 8020. DEFINITIONS. The words used in each of the Codes adopted by this Article shall hove the meoning ascribed to them within each respective Code, ond in addition thereto the following words sholl be understood and defined to have the meonings set forth in the following subsections. If any term used in the Codes which are adopted by reference in this Article refer to an officer, agency, board or body not set up by or within the City, the term shall be deemed to refer to such officer, agency, board or body as shall in fact be charged with the responsibility of performing the duty intended to be performed. 8020.1. BUILDING DIVISION. Building Division sholl mean the Building and Safety Division of the Planning Deportment of the City of Arcadia. 8020.2. BUILDING OFFICIAL. Building Officiol sholl meon the Chief Building Official. 8020.3. CITY. City sholl mean the City of Arcadia, or the appropriote agency of said City os the context may reasonably require. 8020.4. CITY COUNCIL. City Council sholl mean the City Council of the City of Arcodio. 8020.5. CODES. Codes sholl mean ony section of this article and codes adopted by reference by this orticle. 8020.6. LEGISLATIVE BODY. Legislative Body sholl mean the City Council of the City of Arcadia. 8020.7. MUNICIPALITY. Municipality shall mean the City of Arcadia. -- S . ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 0 PART 3 BUILDING REGULATIONS GENERAL REGULA TIONS VIOLA TIONS 8030. VIOLA TIONS. No person shall erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, improve, remove, convert, or demolish, equip, use occupy or maintoin any building or structure or fixture ottached thereto in violation of ony of the Codes referenced by this Article and this Article in the City of Arcodio. Any such violotion is 0 misdemeanor punishable pursuont to Section 1200 of the Arcadia Municipal Code. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 0 PART 4 BUILDING REGULATIONS GENERAL REGULATIONS VARIANCES 8040. VARIANCES. An application for a variance to the Codes shall be mode in writing to the City Clerk of the City of Arcadia. Said application shall clearly set forth the requested variance and the reasons therefore. The City Clerk may provide forms for such purposes ond may prescribe the type of information to be provided thereon. No application shall be received unless it complies with such requirements. Applicotions filed pursuant to this Section shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their filing and shall become a part of the permanent official records of the City, ond there shall be attached thereto copies of 011 notices and actions pertaining thereto. Before occepting for filing any application for 0 variance, the City sholl, for the purpose of defraying the expenditures incidental to the proceedings described herein, charge ond collect 0 fee in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. Upon receipt of such applicotion, the City Clerk shall forthwith refer the same to the Building Official for investigation and written report. The Building Official sholl consult with other City personnel os may be necessary for the preparotion of the written report. Upon the receipt in proper form of any application for 0 variance filed pursuant to this Section, the City Clerk sholl fix 0 time o'nd place for public hearing thereon, to be held not less. than ten (10) days nor more than forty (40) days thereafter. Not less than ten (' 0) days before the date of such public hearing, public notice sholl be given of such hearing in the following radius of fifty (50) feet of the exterior boundaries of the property involved in the opplication, using for this purpose the lost known nome and address of such owner os shown upon the assessment rolls of the County. Such notice sholl state the nature of the request, the location of the property, and the time and place of the hearing. No notice sholl be required when the applicant is the owner of 011 reo I property which adjoins or is within fifty (50) feet of the propwerty for which such variance is requested and such fact is disclosed in the application, or when 011 the property 'owners of any real properety which odjoins or is within fifty (50) feet of the property for which such variance is requested waive notice by written waiver signed by such party or parties and filed with the City Clerk. A summary of 011 pertinent testimony offered at 0 public hearing, together with the names and addresses of 011 persons testifying, sholl be recorded and mode 0 port of the permament files of the case. Any such hearing may be continued, in which event the pr~siding officer at such hearing sholl, prior to the adjournment of such hearing, announce the time and place to which such heoring will be continued. The City Council, by motion or resolution possed or adopted by vote of at least three members of the City Council entered upon the minutes may grant o variance from the requirements of anyone or more of the provisions of this Article upon the terms and conditions deemed necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER I PART I BUILDING REGULA TIONS BUILDING CODE ADOPTION 8110. ADOPTION. The 1979 Editions of the Uniform Building Code including all appendicies and Uniform Building Code Standards, published by the Internotional Conference of Building Officials, as modified by Parts 2 and 3 of this Chapter, ;s hereby odopted by reference ond together with ports 2 and 3 of this Chapter sholl constitute the Building Code of the City of Arcadia. Three (3) copies of said Codes ore on file in the office of the City Clerk for use and examination by the public. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER I PART 2. BUILDING REGULA TIONS BUILDING CODE PURPOSE 8120. PURPOSE. The purpose of this code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all buildings and structures within this jurisdiction and certoin equipment specifically regulated herein. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER I PART 3 BUILDING REGULATIONS BUILDING CODE ADDITIONS, DELETIONS & AMENDMENTS 8130. AMENDMENTS, ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS. Soid Uniform Building Code is omended os provided in the following subsections. 8130.1. AMENDMENT. Section 203 of Chapter 2 of Said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read os follows: Section 203 (0) General. Every building, structure, equipment or facility or any portion thereof which is structurally unsafe, or which is not provided with adequate egress, or which constitutes a fire hazard, or which is otherwise dangerous to humon life, or which in relation to the existing use thereof constitutes a ha2:'ard to safety or to health or to the public welfare, or which cannot be lawfully used in its present location or condition for ony purpose for which it was designed, intended or constructed, or which does not comply with one or more provisions of the Code or other applicable low or regulation and cannot be altered, repaired or relocated so os to make it so comply, or which by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescense, abandonment, continued disuse, or other cause, canstitutes either a hazard to safety, to health, to public welfare or to the reasonable use and enjoyment of adjocent properties or causes deterioration or depreciation of praperty values in the immediate vicinity, is, for the purpose of this Section, declared to be a unsafe building. All such unsafe buildings are hereby declared to be public nuisonces ond shaJl be abated by repair, improvement, rehabilitation, demolition, relocation or removal in accordance with the procedure specified in the following Subsections hereof. (b) Notice of Hearing. The Building Official shall examine or cause to be examined each building, structure, equipment or facility' or portion thereof reported to be an unsafe building as-hereinbefore defined, and if the same is determined by him to be on unsofe building as thus defined the Building Official shall give written notice in occordance' with' Subsection (c) building and notice that a public hearing will be held by and before the City Council at a date, hour and place specified in such notice at which time and ploce the City Council will hear and receive testimony and evidence from the owner of the unsafe building therein described and from all other persons desiring to be heard or to present evidence relative thereto, and that the City Council will thereupon determine whether or not such building, structure, equipment or facility is on unsafe building os defined by this Section and whether the same shall be abated by repair, improvement, rehabilitation, relocation, demolition or removal in accordance with the procedure hereafter prescribed in this Section. (c) Service of Notice. The notice specified in the preceding Subsection shall be served by delivering the same personally to the owner or to the person in possession of or using or occupying the unsafe building therein described, or if any such person cannot be located within the City then by mailing such notice by registered mail to any of the persons thus enumerated. A copy of such notice sholl also be published once in the official newspaper of the City, and 0 copy thereof shall also be posted in at least one conspicuous location upon such unsafe building. Such service, publicotion and posting shall be completed at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing therein referred to. (d) Council Hearing. The City Council shall conduct a public hearing at the time and place spec;ified in the notice served pursuant to Subsection (c) hereinbefore, at which hearing the City Council shall afford to the owner and to all persons so desiring an opportunity to be heard and to present evidence. At the conclusion of such hearing the City Council shall determine from the evidence presented at the hearing and shall by resolution declare whether or not such building, structure, equipment or focility is an unsafe building as . hereinbefore defined and whether the same shall be abated by repair, improvement, rehabilitation, demolition, relocation or removal in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the following Subsections. (e) Notice to Repair. After the City Council thus determines and by resolution declares that the building, structure, equipment or facility is an written notice of such determination, which notice sholl require the owner or person in possession of or using such unsafe building to commence, within forty-eight (48) hours after such service of notice, the repair, improvement, rehobilitation, demolition, relocation or removal of the unsafe building or portions thereof os determined by the Council and specified in such notice. All such work sholl be completed within ninety (90) days fromn the dote of such service of the notice, unless the Building Official in writing and for good couse extends the time of completion. The notice prescribed by this Subsection sholl be served in the same manner as prescribed for the service of notice in Subsection (c) hereinbefore, except that it need not be published in the officiol newspoper of the City. (f) Posting of Signs. The Building Official may also couse to be posted at each entrance to on unsofe building or structure or upon each unsofe equipment or facility 0 notice substantiolly os follows; "UNSAFE BUILDING OR EQUIPMENT. DO NOT ENTER OR USE. Building Department. City of Arcadia." Any such notice sholl remain thus posted until the repair, improvement, rehabilitation, demolition, relocation or removal required by the City Council is completed. No person sholl remove any such notice, without the written per'missian of the Building Official,and no person sholl enter, use or occupy the building, structure, equipment or facility thus posted except for the purpose of accomplishing the required repair, improvement, rehobilitotion, demolition, relocation or removal thereof. (g) Prosecution. If the owner or person in possession of or using any unsofe building foils or refuses to comply with any provision of 0 notice served upon him in occordance with Subsection (e) hereinabove, or foils to repair, improve, rehabilitate, demolish, relocate or remove the building, structure, equipment or facility as directed in such notice, the City Council may order the owner thereof or the person in possession of or using the same, or any or 011 of them, to be prosecuted os 0 violator of the provisions of the Bui Iding Code. (h) Right to Demolish. Whether or not the Council thus orders prosecution for violation of the provisions of the Building Code, if cifter notice os relocation or removal required by the City Council is not commenced within the forty-eight (48) hours ofter serv(ce of notice or is not completed within the time specified in such notice, the City Council may order the Building Official to proceed with the work specified in any such notice. Upon completion of such work, the Building Official shall prepare and transmit to the City Council 0 statement of the costs ond expenses of such work, which cost and expenses sholl include administrative overheod expenses and the cost of giving of any notices pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section. The Building Official sholl also tronsmit, by registered moil. or by personal delivery, 0 copy of such statement of costs ond expenses to the person against whom the some is to be charged, together with 0 notice of the time and place at.which the City Council will consider and pass upon such statement of costs and expenses, which time shall be not less than ten (10) days after such service of the notice herein prescribed. At the time specified in such notice the City Council shall consider the costs and expenses incurred in the performance of the work, and by resolution shall determine the amount of such costs and expenses and order and cause the some to be poid and levied os a special assessment against the reol property upon which such work was thus performed. (i) Notice of Lien. In addition to the foregoing the Building Official may execute a notice of I ien describing the real property upon which any work was performed under Subparagraph (h) hereof, the authority under which such work was done, the cost of such work as determined by the City Council, and specifying thot such amount shall bear interest at the rate of twelve percent (12%)per annum from date of the Council's determination of cost until the same is paid, ond may record the same in the office of the County Recorder. 8130.2. AMENDMENT. Section 204 of Chapter 2 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 204. Upon written application of any person who deems himself aggrieved by the decision of the Building Official, relating to the use of any materiol or method of construction not specifically prescribed by this Chapter, and the use of any of which has been denied by the Building Official, heoring render 0 finol ond conclusive determination upon said application. 8130.3 ADDITION. Subsection (a) 8 of Section 302 of Chapter 3 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby odded to read as follows: 8. A statement of the names and addresses of all subcontractors ond material men who are to perform any work upon or supply any materials to or for the improvement or structure for which a permit is thus appl ied for. No finol inspection or certificate of occupancy shall be given or issued unless ond until the general contractor or owner shall, upon completion of the improvement or structure for which finol inspection is sought or required, fi Ie in duplicate with the Building Official a verified statement containing the names ond oddresses of 011 subcontractors and materialmen, other than those set forth in the original opplicotion, who sholl have performed work or furnished materiols to or for the improvement of the structure for which final inspection or certificote of occuponcy is sought or required. 8130.4. AMENDMENT. Subsection (b) of Section 302 of Chapter 3 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (b) Plans and Specifications. With each application for a building permit, and when required by the Building Official for enforcement of any provision of this code, two or more sets of plans, engineering calculations, diagrams and other data shall be submitted. Whether or not a permit therefore is required by this Chapter of this Article 0 complete grading plan of the building site, showing the present grodes of the lot comprising the building si te, the proposed fi nished grade of such lot, and a method approved by the Building Official for disposingof all surface water flowing upon or emanating from such lot, shall be likewise submitted. The Building Official may require all such plans and specifications to be prepared and designed by an engineer or architect licensed by the State to practice as such. EXCEPTION: The Building Officiol may waive the submission of. plans, colculations, etc., if he finds that the nature of the work applied for is such that reviewing of the plans is not necessary to obtain compl iance with this , Chapter. hereby amended to read os follows: Section 304 (a) Building Permit Fees. Before a building permit is issued under the provisions of this Chapter, a fee shall be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. The determination of value or valuotion under any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be made by the Building Official. The valuation to be used in computing the permit and plan review fees shall be the total value of all construction work for which the permit is issued, as well as all finish work, painting roofing, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, elevators, fire-extinguishing systems and any other permanent work or permanent equipment. (b) PLAN REVIEW FEES. When the valuation of the proposed construction exceeds five hundred dollars ($500.00) and a pion is required to be submitted by Subsection (b) of Section 302, a plan review fee shall be paid at the time of submitting plans and specifications for review. Plan review fees for buildings of Group R-3 and M occupancies shall be 50 percent of the building permit fees, and for all other buildings the plan review fees shall be 65 percent of the building permit fees. When plans are required to be checked for compliance with the State Energy Conservation Regulations a fee or deposit sholl be paid at the time of submitting plans and specifications for review. Energy Conservation Plan review fee for additions ond alterations to buildings in Group R-3 occupancy shall be 5 percent of the building Fee. Energy Conservation Plan review fee deposit for new buildings in Group R-I and R-3 Occupancy shall be 25 percent of the building permit fee, and for all other buildings the plan review fee deposit shall be 75 percent of the building permit fee. The applicant shall receive any unencumbered' portion of said deposit following the completion of the plan check. review, an additional plan revie'M 'fee shall be charged at a rate established by the Building Official. (c) Expiration of Plan Review. Applicotions for which no permit is issued within 180 doys following the date of application shall expire by limitation ond plans and other data submitted for review may thereafter be returned to the applicant or destroyed by the Building Official. The Building Official moy extend the time for action by the applicant for a period not exceeding 180 days upon request by the appl icont showing that circumstances beyond the control of the applicont hove prevented action from being taken. No application shall be extended more than'once. In order to renew action on an '. application after expiration, the applicant shall resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee. (d) Investigation Fees: Work Without a Permit. I. Investigation. Whenever any work for which a permit is required by this code has been commenced without first obtoining said permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work. 2. Fee. An investigotion fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be'collected whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The investigation fee shall ;be equal to the omount of the permit fee required by this code. The payment of such investigation fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with all other provisions of this Code nor from any penalty prescribed by law. (e). Inspection Fee for Existing Buildings. The Building Official may charge an inspection fee for the inspection of an existing building. The fee shall be paid to the City in occordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. (f) Fee Refunds. I. Fee Refunds. The Building Official may authorize the refunding of any fee paid hereunder which was erroneously paid or collected. percent of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued in occordonce with this Code. 3. The Building Official may authorize the refunding of not more than 80 percent of the plan review fee paid when an application for a permit for which a pion review fee hos been poid is withdrawn or cancelled before any plan reviewing is done. The Building Officiol sholl not authorize the refunding of ony fee poid except upon written application filed by the original permittee not later than 180 days after the date of fee payment. 8130.6. ADDITION. Section 610 of Chapter 6 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby added to read as follows: Section 610. Fire Alarms. An approved automatic fire alorm system shall be provided in 011 Group A Occupancies. EXCEPTION: Unless otherwise required by this Code, the automatic fire alarm system will not be required when an approved automatic fire extinguishing system is provided. The alarm system shall be installed in accordance with NFPA Standards No. 71 ond 72. 8130.7. ADDITION. Section 710 of Chapter 7 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby odded to read as follows: Section 710. Fire Alarms. An approved automatic fire alarm system shall be provided in all Group B Occupancies. EXCEPTION: Unless otherwise required by this Code, the automatic fire alarm system will not be required when an approved automotic fire extinguishing system is provided. NFPA Standards No. 71 and 72. 8130.8. ADDITION. Section 910 of Chapter 9 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby added to read as follows: Section 910. Fire Alorms. An approved automatic fire alarm system shall be provided in all Group H Occupancies. EXCEPTION: Unless otherwise required by this code, the outomotic fire olarm system will not be required when an opproved automatic fire extinguishing system is provided. The alarm system shall be installed in occordance with NPF A Standards No. 71 and 72. 8 I 30.9. ADDITION. Subdivision (c) is hereby added to Section 1210 of Chapter 12 of said Uniform Building Code to read as follows: Section 1210(c) Yard Standpipe sholl be provided whenever the front entrance to any dwelling unit or guest room of Group R, Division I is located more thon 150 feet travel distance from the neorest street curb face, except that such risers shall not be required where all bui Idings on the premises are equipped throughout with automatic fire sprinkler system installed in accordance with UBC Standards No. 38-1. Said standpipe risers shall be'so located that no front entrance to any dwelling unit or guest room on the premises is more than 75 feet travel distance from a standpipe riser or street curb face. I. Size. The size of the standpipe riser and the pipe supplying shall not be less than two and one-holf (21'2) inches in diometer. The Chief of the Fire Department may require larger risers or supply piping if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary by the configuration of supply pipe length and number of standpipe risers. 212 inch outlet valve with national standord male hose threads. Such valve shall be located not less than three feet, no more than four feet, obove grade. 3. Woter Supply. Such stondpipe riser system shall be wet at all times and shall be connected to on odequate water supply. The supply pipe sholl contain backflow devices as required by the Water Department and the Fire Department. 4. Fire Department Connections. All standpipe riser systems shall be equipped with a two-way fire department connection. Piping from the connection inlet shall connect to the supply piping on the service side of the supply piping check valve. All fire deportment connections shall be located on a street front, or, if approved by the Fire Chief, adjacent to a paved access rood on the property. Connections sholl be not less than 18 inches nor more than four feet above grade and shall be equipped with approved straightway check valves. All fire deportment connections sholl be protected against mechanical injury and shall be visible and accessible. More than one fire deportment connection may be required. S. Signs. An approved durable sign with raised letters at least one inch high sholl be permanently attached to the street fire deportment connection. Such sign shall read: liST ANDPIPE RISER CONNECTION". 8130.10 ADDITION. Chapter 13 is hereby added to said Uniform Building Code to read as f<;>lIo;"'5: CHAPTER 13 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APARTMENT HOUSES AND CONVALESCENT AND BOARD AND CARE FACILITIES Section 1301. APARTMENT DEFINED. As used in this Chopter, apartment house shall mean and include any building or portion thereof which is designed, built, rented, leosed, let or hired out to be occupied, or which is' occupied os the and doing their own cooking in the said building, and sholl include flats and apartments. Section 1301.1. APPLICATION. Except where a more restrictive provision in the Uniform Building Code, in the Arcadia Municipal Code or in any State law or regulation is oppljcoble, each provision of this chopter sholl opply to all apartment houses as defined by the preceding Section 130 I Section 130 1.2 APPLICATION Except where a more restrictive provision in the Uniform Building Code, in the Arcadia Municipal Code or in any State low or regulation is applicable, each provision of this Chapter, except where the provision by its terms is not opplicable, sholl opply to '011 convalescent and board and care facilities as defined in Article IX of the Arcadia Municipal Code, provided that for the purpose of this subsection, wherever the term or phrase "apartment unit" or "dwelling units" is used in Sectian 1305.1, and 1305.9, it shall be deemed that such term or phrase means a room(s) provided for sleeping for one or more persons in a convalescent facility and in 0 board and care facility. Section 1302. BATHROOM STANDARDS. (a) FLOOR COVERING. Floor coverings may be of, any approved material. Sheet vinyl shall be used as an under/ayment for carpeting ond other absorbent materiols. (b) SURF ACE MATERIAL. All wall surface material within four inches (4") of bathtubs, showers and lavatories shall be ceramic tile or equivalent material approved by the Building Official. (c) HEATERS. No wall heaters sholl be permitted in any bathroom. Section 1303 KITCHEN STANDARDS (0) EXHAUST FANS. Every kitchen shall be equipped with 0 power exhaust fan over the range area and sholl be vented to the outside. . . .:.:,~.f: . every kitchen sink and over every range, range area or cooking area. (c) GARBAGE DISPOSAL. Every kitchen shall be equipped with a mechanical garbage disposal device. (d) STORAGE. Every kitchen shall contain no less than the following amounts of storage area. (I) Twenty-four (24) square feet of upper shelf space above the counter providing not less than twenty (20) cubic feet of storage area. (2) Twenty (20) square feet of counter top space, exclusive of sinks. (3) Below the counter top forty (40) cubic feet of storage area of which not less than thirty (30) square feet shall be shelving and not less than fifteen (I S) square feet shall be drawer space. Section 1304. STORAGE. (a) WARDROBES. Every bedroom of each dwelling unit shall contain at last one (I) clothes wardrobe with minimum interior dimensions of four feet (4') in length, twenty-five inches (25") in depth and seven feet (7') in height; provided, however, at least one (I) such wardrobe in each dwelling unit shall be at least six feet (6') in length. Drawers, shelves or shoe racks may be placed within any such wardrobe so long as a twenty-five inch (25") depth is maintoined for ot least five (5') in height for the required length of the wordrobe. (b) GENERAL. Each dwelling unit shall also contain not less than forty-eight (48) cubic feet of general storage space. Section 1305.1 Appendix Chopter read as follows: NOISE REDUCTION STANDARDS Section 350 I of 35 of Soid Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to (a) GENERAL. In Group "R" Occupancies, wall and floor-ceiling assembl ies separating dwell ing units or guest rooms from each other and from public space such as interior corridors and service areas shall provide airborne sound insulation for walls, and both airborne and impact sound insulotion for floor-ceiling assemblies. (b) AIRBORNE SOUND INSULATION. All such separating walls and floor-ceiling assemblies shall provide an airborne sound insulation equal to that required to meet a Sound Tronsmission Class (STC) of 58 as defined in U.B.C. Standard No. 35.1. Penetrations or openings in construction assemblies for piping, electricol devices, recessed cabinets, bathtubs, soffits, or heating, ventilation or exhaust ducts. shall be seoled, lined, i'nsulated or other wide treated to maintain the required ratings. seals shall have a laboratory tested Sound Transmission Closs (STC) rating of not less thon 30 and such perimeter seals sholl be maintained in good operating condition. (c) IMPACT SOUND INSULATION. All separating floor-ceiling assemblies between separate units or guest rooms sholl provide impact sound insulation equal to that required to meet an Impact Insulation Closs (IIC) rating of 58 os defined in U.B.C. Standard No. 35.2. Floor coverings may be included in the assembly to obtain the required ratings, and must be retained os 0 permanent port of the assembly and may only be replaced by other floor coverings that provide the some sound insulotion required above. (d) TESTED ASSEMBLIES. Field or laboratory tested wall or f/oor- ceiling designs having as STC or IIC ratings of 58 or more as determined by U.C.B. Standard No. 35-1, 35-2 or 35-3 may be used without additional field testing when in the opinion of the Building Official the tested design has not been compromised by flanking paths. Tests may be required by the Building Official when evidence of compromised separations is noted. (e) FIELD TESTING AND CERTIFICATION. Field Testing, when approved by the Building official, sholl be done under the supervision of a professional acoustician who sholl be experienced in the field of acoustical testing ond engineering, who sholl forward certified test results to the Building official that minimum sound insulation requirements stated above hove been met. (f) AIRBORNE SOUND INSULATION FIELD TESTS~ When approved by the Building Official, airborne sound insulation sholl be- determined according to the applicable Field Airborne Sound Transmission Loss Test Procedures of U.B.C. Standard No. 35-3. All sound transmitted from the source room to the receiving room shall be considered to be tronsmitted through the test partition. the Building Official, impact sound insulotion sholl be determined in accordonce with U.8.C Standord No. 35-2. (h) FIELD TESTS. Field Tests on existing buildings to determine STC or IIC Values, may be accomplished only upon authorization of the Building Official. Wall and Floor-ceiling tests must meet 0 Sound Transmission Closs (CTS) of 52 and Impact Insulation Clas (IIC) of 52 os determined by U.B.C. Standard No. 35-1, 35-2, and 35-3. Section 1305.2. FILE OF SYSTEMS. The Building Official sholl maintain on file in the Building arid Safety Division office literature describing systems for these ratings, ond when practicoble sholl keep on hand examples of such systems. Section 1305.3. AL TERNA TE SYSTEM. Approval of alternate systems may be given when 0 complete test report is submitted by 0 recognized testing laboratory. Materiols and the applicotion of each such system sholl be os specified in the report. Section J 305.4 DRAWINGS. All drawings must show clearly the areas proposed to be soundproofed. Section 1305.5 INSPECTION. No soundproofing work sholl be covered before 0 special soundproofing inspection is obtoined from the Building and Safety Division. Section 1305.6 FANS AND VENTS. No exhaust fans or vent pipes sholl serve more than one dwelling unit. Section 1305.7 PACKING OF VOIDS. All voids around plumbing pipes sholl be pocked with rock wool or equivalent sound deadening material approved by the Building Official and 011 plumbing pipes sholl be wrapped at 011 points of contact with any wood or steel members and strop hangers. installed as to reduce sound transmission to a minimum, and the methad of installation shall be shown on the building plans. Section 1305.9. SEPARA TlON OF FACILITIES. No medicine cabinet, vent or electrical outlet serving one dwelling unit shall be placed back to back with or immediately adjacent to a medicine cabinet, vent or electrial outlet serving another dwelling unit unless separated by non-rigid insulation at least two (2) inches thick. Section 1306. INSULATION REQUIREMENTS. Section 1306.1 INSULATION INSPECTION. No insulation shall be covered before insulation is inspected and approved. Section 1306.2. COMFORT COOLING SYSTEM. A comfort cooling system capable of maintaining a temperature differential of 20 F. between the habitable areas and the outdoor areas shall be installed in each dwelling unit. Water evaporative cooling systems or individual windaw or .wall-mounted units may not be used to meet this requirement. Section 1307 EXTERIOR REQUIREMENTS Section 1307.1. GLAZED AREAS. Wire glass, laminoted or tempered glass or other approved shatterproof materiol shall be used in all gloss doors, windows and glazed oreas where the bottom of the glazed area is within twelve inches (12") of the finish floor. In lieu of wire, laminated or tempered gloss or other shatterproof material, a protective metal bar or etched area approved by the Building official may be installed horizontally three feet (3') above the finish floor. Section 1307.2 DOORS. All exterior doors sholl be mode of-metal, or of sol id core wood, ar of wire, laminated or tempered glass or other shatterproof moterial. Every door shall be completely weotherstripped. with current United States postal regulations. Section 1307.4 WIRES.AND CONDUIT. Every wire and wire conduit within the exterior property lines shall be installed underground other than risers immediately adjacent and attached to a building, or wiring and conduit within ~ building. Section 1308. PARKING AND ACCESS AREAS. Section 1308.1 ASPHALT CONCRETE SUBGRADE. (a) ASPHALT CONCRETE PAVEMENT. Aspholt concrete pavement shall be I-C-85-1 00 and shall be constructed in accordance with Section 302-5 of the Stondard Specifications for Public Works Construction 1976 Edition, and shall be three inches (3") in thickness. The relative compaction of the subgrade soil sholl be niney-five percent (95%) and shall meet the inspection tests of Section 211"2 of soid specifications. F air to good soil shall be compacted four inches (4"), poor soil five inches (5"), ond very poor soil six inches (6"). (b) T~ST. A core test of the asphalt in place will be required to determine of the materials are in compliance with these specifications. The core test shall be made by a recognized testing laboratory, the cost for tests to be paid by the contractor. Location for test hole is to be specified by the Building Officio!. Section 1308.2. CONCRETE. All concrete driveways and parking areas sholl be constructed with a minimum of four inches (4") in thickness with five (5) sock mix per yord, and woter content not to exceed seven and one-half (71':z) gollons per sack. Section 1308.3. DRIVEWAY RAMP REQUIREMENTS. not exceed a maximum grade of twenty percent (20%). A twenty (20) foot transition area shall be provided at the tap Of such ramp and a fifteen (15) foot transition area shall be provided at the bottom of such romp in accordance with the following diagram: Top of Ramo Bot tom or Ramp 15' 010\ 20\ slope (no 1E!fll<th limit) 10' ~ 10l 10' ~ 4'\ (b). PEDESTRIAN EXITING. Romps exceeding twelve and one-half percent (121'2%) grade shall not be used for legal pedestrian exiting. (c) FENCING. Fencing, railing or other protective structure shall be installed adjacent ta all ramps and below grade areas in a manner opproved by the Building Official. (d) ILLUMINATION. All ramps shall be illuminated to an intensity of one (I) footcondle at floor or ground level. Section 1308.4 OPEN PARKING REQUIREMENTS. (a) MARKING. Eoch open parking space, driving aisle and turning area shall be identified by painted striping. All one-way traffic lanes shall be adequately so marked. (b) BARRIERS. Bump rails, curbs or other adequate protective barriers shall be installed where necessary in the opinion of the Building outomobiles. (c) ILLUMINATION. All open parking areos shall be adequately illuminoted. All such lighting sholl be directed away from adjoining prapert ies. Section 1308.5 GARAGE AND CARPORT REQUIREMENTS. (a) WALLS. All walls and partitions of detached garages and carports shall be of masonry construction with a six inch (6") nominal thickness. In all garages and carports where unit masonry is used, the cells shall be grouted sol id to a point four feet (4') obove the floor. (b) FRAME. Carports and garages of wooden frame construction shall have additional protective barriers so located as to protect the plastered walls from damage by automobiles. (c) CONCRETE FLOORS. The floor of every covered parking space shall be paved with cement concrete. (d) ILLUMINATION. At least one (I) duplex outlet and a minimum of one (I) ceiling light fixture providing at least one (I) footcandle at ground level shall be provided for every six hundred (600) square feet of covered parking orea. All steps, ramps, driveways or corridors leading to covered parking areas shall be illuminated to an intensity of one (I) . footcandle at ground level. Section 1309. ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS. more than two (2) floors of dwelling units shall elevators or escalators. All buildings containing be equipped with either Section 1310. RIGID WALL AND CEILING COVERING. All walls and ceilings shall be covered with plaster, minimum thickness 7/8 inch, or drywoll, minimum thickness S/8 inch, or approved material equal in rigidity, as determined by the Building Official. 8130.11 ADDITION. Chapter 16 is hereby added to said Uniform Building Code to read as follows: CHAPTER 16 RESTRICTIONS IN HAZARDOUS FIRE AREAS Section 160 I. GENERAL. Bui Idings or structures hereafter erected, canstructed, moved within 'or into hazardous fire areas, as established by resolution of the City Council,. shall comply with the following requirements of this Section: (a) OVERHANGS. Roof soffits (including eaves) in excess of twelve inches (12") in width, open patios, carports, porches, unenclosed underfloor areas, and all open structures, attached or detached, shall be protected on the undersides with materials as approved for one-hour fire-resistive construction or shall be of incombustible material throughout. (b) VENTS. Vents installed in areas required to be one-hour fire-resistive construction or of incombustible material throughout, shall be fusible link type vents. 8130.12 DELETION. Subsections 2.and 3 of Section 1704 of Chapter 17 of said Uniform Building Code are hereby deleted and repealed and shall not be applicable. 8130.13. AMENDMENT. Section 1807 of Chapter 18 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read os follows: r. Subdivision (0) of said Section 1807 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1807 (0) Scope. This section sholl apply to 011 Group B, Division 2 office buildin,gs and Group R, Division I Occupancies, each having floors used for human occuponcy located more than 55 feet above the lowest level of fire Deportment vehicle access. Such buildings shall be provided with on approved automatic sprinkler system in accordance with Section 1807(c). 2. Subdivision (L) of said Section 1807 is hereby deleted and repealed ond sholl not be applicable. 8130.14 AMENDMENT. Subsection (b) of Section 2308 of Chapter 23 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read os follows: (b). Retaining walls sholl be designed to resist the lateral pressure of the retained material in accordance with accepted engineering practice.Walls retaining drained earth may be designed for pressure equivalent to that exerted by 0 fluid weighing not less than thirty (30) pounds per cubic foot and having a depth equal to that of the retained earth. Any surcharge sholl be in addition to the qeuivalent fuild pressure. Retaining walls intended for permanently retoining eorth cuts or fills adjocent to property lines or permanent buildings sholl be of concrete, masonry or steel. (Amended by Ord. 1287 adopted 7-6-65; om ended by Ord. 1443 adopted 12-21-71) 8130.15. AMENDMENT. Subsection (g) 3 of Section 2518 of Chapter 25 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amendE;d to read os follows: center unless vertical supporting members in the walls are designed as columns, or such walls may be constructed of not less than four inch by four inch (4" x 4") posts spaced not more than five feet, four inches (S'4") on center, or of larger members designed as required in this Chapter, or may be of post and beam framing with plank sheathing not less than one and one-half inches (I 1/2") thick. (Amended by Ord. 1443 adopted 12-21-71) 8130.16 DELETION. Exception No. I of Subsection (b) of Section 2907 of Chapter 29 of Said Uniform Building Code is hereby deleted and repeoled and shall not be applicable. 8130.17 AMENDMENT. Subsection (b) of Section 3205 of Chapter 32 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (b) DRAFT STOPS. Enclosed attic spaces formed of combustible construction sholl be divided into hor;zonotol oreos not exceeding 1500 square feet by port it ions extending from the ceilings to the roof. Such partitions shall be not less than 1/2 thick gypsum wallboard, or I-inch nominal thickness tight-fitting door, 3/8 inch-thick plywood, or approved noncombustible material adequately supported. Openings in the partitions shall be protected by self-closing. doors constructed as required for the partitions. Exception: Where the entire attic is equipped with an approved automatic sprinkler system, the attic space may be divided into areas not to exceed 4S00 square feet. 8130.18. AMENDMENT. Subsection (f) of Section 3703 of Chapter 37 of . said Uniform Building Code is hereby-amended to read as follows: roof and the highest elevotion of any part of a bui Iding as shown in T able No. 37-B. For altitudes over 2000 feet, the Building Official shall be consulted in determining the height of the chimney. All chimneys shall terminate in a substantially constructed spark arrestor having a mesh not exceeding 3/4 inch. 8130.19. AMENDMENT. Section 3802 of Chapter 38 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Subdivision (b) I of soid Section 3802 is amended by adding subdivision E and E.I as follows: E. In all bui Idings that exceed S,OOO square feet in total f1~or area regardless of type of construction. E.I Areo seporation walls utilized to comply with Section 3802 (b) I.E shall comply with said Uniform Building Code, Section 505 (d). Exception: Said seporation walls shall be "Without openings". Subsection (b) 2.B of said Section 3802 is amended as follows: B. When occupancy has over 5,000 square feet of floor areo which can be used for exhibition or display purposes. Subsection (b) 6.A of said Section 3802 is amended as follows: A. In retail sales rooms classed as Group B, Division 2 occupancies where the floor area exceeds 5,000 squore feet. Subsection (b) of said Section 3802 is amende? by adding the following: 7. In all buildings three or more stories in height regardless of the type of construction or occuponcy. located beneath any portion of a building used for human occupancy. Subsection (c) of said Section 3802 is amended as follows: (c) A larms. When serving more than 20 sprinklers, automatic sprinkler systems shall be supervised by an approved central, proprietary or remote station service or a local alorm which will give an audible signal at a constantly attended location. 8130.20. AMENDMENT. Section 5103 (f) of Chapter 51 of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (f) Standby Power. In every building over one story and more than 55 feet in height, standby power shall be provided for at least one elevator in each bank. This standby power shall be transferable to any other elevator in the bank and shall be capable of operating the elevator with a full load at a speed of not less than 150 feet per minute. Standby power shall be provided by on approved self-contoined generator set to operate whenever there is a loss of pawer in the normal house current. The generator shaJI be in a separoteroom from the remainder of the ~uilding and shall have a fuel supply adequate to operate the equipment for two hours. 8130.21. AMENDMENT. Section 700 I of Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amende~ to read as follows: Section 7001. The purpose of this Chapter is to provide minimum standards for the protection of life, limb, property and public welfare by regulating and controll ing the design, construction, quality of mqterials, use, location and maintenance of grading, excavation and fill within the City. of Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code, to read as follows: 10. The excavating or depositing of any materials by the City, its departments or employees \'Iithin the scope of their employment by the City. II. An excavation or fill in connection with the making of on earth fill dam regulated by the Division of Water Resources of the State Deportment of Public Works. 8130.23. AMENDMENT. Subsection (b) of Section 7006 of Chapter 70 Appendix of soid Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (b) Application. The prOVIsIons of Section 302 (a) are applicable to grading and in addition the application shall contain the following: I. Estimated date for the starting and completion 'of the grading work. 2. A statement by the applicant that he assumes and will be responsible for all damage to persons or property resulting from any excavation, fill or work done under the permit requested. 8130.24 ADDITION. Section 7006.1 is hereby added to Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code, to read as follows: Section 7006.1 EXPIRATION OF PERMIT. Every grading permit shall expire and become null and void if the work authorized by such permit has not been commenced within sixty (60) days or is not completed within one (I) yeor from dote of issue; except thot -the Buil,ding Official may, if the permit holder presents satisfactory evidence that unusual difficulties have prevented work being started or completed within the specified time 'limits, grant a the extension of time is mode before the dote of expiration of the permit. 8130.25. ADDITION. Section 7006.2 is hereby added to Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code, to read os follows; Section 7006.2 DENIAL OF PERMIT. Where, in the opinion of the Building Official, the work as proposed by the applicant is likely to endanger any property or public way, he shall deny the grading permit. Factors to be considered in determining probability of hazardous conditions sholl include,but not be limited to, possible saturation by rains, earth movements, run-off of surfoce waters and subsurface conditions such os the strotification and faulting of rock, nature and type of soil or rock. Failure of the Building Official to observe or recognize hazardous conditions or to foil to deny the grading permit shall not relieve the owner or his agent from responsibility for the condition or damoges resulting therefrom, and shall not result in the City, its officers or agents, being responsible for the conditions or damoges resulting therefrom. 8130.26. AMENDMENT. Subsection (a) ond (b) of Section 7007 of Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read os follows: (a) Plan-checking Fee. A plan-checking fee shall be paid to the City at the time pions are submitted for checking in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. (b) Grading Permit Fees. Before 0 grading permit is issued under the provisions of this Chapter, 0 fee shall be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8130.27. AMENDMENT. Appendix of said Uniform follows: Subsection (a) of Section 7013 of Chapter 70 Bui Iding Code is hereby amended to read os fill or cut for which a permit is required by this Chapter and which in the opinion of the Director of Public Works is subject to sufficient soil erosion to require protective measures, shall be planted and irrigated as provided in the following subsections, ond 011 grading plans approved by the City shall show compliance with this seCtion I. Planting Schedule. The Director of Public Works shall at all times maintain on file jn his office and available for public inspection an approved planting schedule containing ground covers and plants acceptable for planting of slopes as required by this Chapter. Every slope required to be planted by the preceding section shall be planted as provided in said schedule. 2. Sprinkler System. Every person causing or creating a cut or filled slope governed by this Chopter sholl concurrent with the creation hereof, install a sprinkler system for the watering thereof; provided, however, that in areas which in the opinion of the Director of Public Works hond watering is feasible, an adequate system of hose bibs may be installed in lj~.u of a sprinkler system. If hose bibs are used, they sholl be so located that a hose no longer than fifty (50) feet will be sufficient to provide water to all portions of the slopes. Each such system shall be so designed as to provide an uniform water coverage at a rate of precipitation of no less than one-fourth (1/4) inch per hour on the planted slope. A check valve and balance cock shall be installed in each sprinkler system where drainage for sprinkler heads wi II in the opinion of the Director of Public Works create an erosion problem. backflow protection. A functional test of each sprinkler system shall be performed by the installer prior to approval thereof by the Department of Public Works. 8130.28. ADDITION. Subsection (c) is hereby added to Section 7013 of Chapter 70 Appendix of said Uniform Building Code to read as follows: (c) Slope Maintenance. After planting of ground cover, no owner of lond shall fail or refuse to water the same at such times and for such duration of time as is necessary to mointoin the same in a healthy growing condition. No person shall use any sprinkler system or other watering facility in such a manner that the rate of precipitation or duratian of use creates such a saturated condition as to cause soil erosion or likelihood of soil erosion. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 4 PART I BUILDING REGULA TIONS MECHANICAL CODE ADOPTION 8410 ADOPTION. The 1976 Edition of the Uniform Mechanical Code including 011 appendicies published by the International Conference of Building Officiols, os modified by Parts 2 and 3 af this Chapter, is hereby adopted by reference and together with Parts 2 and 3 of this Chapter shall constitute the Mechanical Code of the City of Arcadia. Three (3) copies of said code are on file in the office of the City Clerk for use and examination by the public. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 4 PART 2 BUILDING REGULA TIONS. MECHANICAL CODE PURPOSE 8420. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controll ing the design, construction, installation, qual ity of materials, location,m operation, and mointenance or use of hearing, ventilating, cooling, refrigeration systems, incinerators and other miscellaneous heating producing oppliances within this jurisdiction. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 4. PART 3. Building Regulations MECHANICAL CODE ADDITIONS, DELETIONS & AMENDMENTS. 8431. AMENDMENT. Section 203 of Chapter 2 of the said Uniform Mechancol Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 203. Upon written application of any person who deems himself aggrieved by the decision of the Building Official, relating to the use of any Chapter, and the use of any of which has been denied by the Building Official, the City Council sholl conduct a hearing and shall upon the conclusion of said hearing render a final and conclusive determinotion upon said application. 8432. AMENDMENT. Section 304 of Chapter 3 of said Uniform Mechanical Code is hereby om ended to read as follows; Section 304 (a) Mechanical Permit Fees. Before a mechanical permit is issued under the provisions of this Chapter, a fee shall be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Counci I. Section 304 (b) Energy Conservation Plan Review Fees. When plans are required to be checked for compliance with the State Energy Conservation Regulations a fee or deposit shall be paid at the time of submitting plans and specifications for review. Energy Conservation Plan review fee for additions and alterations to buildings in Group R-3 occupancy shall be 5 percent of the building Fee. Energy Conservation Plan review fee deposit for new buildings in Group R-I and R-3 occupancy shall be 25 percent of the building permit fee, and for 011 other bui Idings the plan review fee deposit sholl be 75 unencumbered portion of said deposit following the completion of the plan check.' Where plans are incomplete or changed so as to require additional plan review, on additional plan review fee sholl be charged at 0 rate established by the Building Official. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 5 PART I. BUILDING REGULATIONS HOUSING CODE , ADOPTION 8510 ADOPTION. The 1979 Edition of the Uniform Housing Code, published by the International Conference of Building Officials, is hereby adopted by reference, and shall constitute the Housing Code of the City of Arcadia. Three (3) copies of said code are on file in the office of the City Clerk for use and examination by the public. ARTICLE VII' CHAPTER 6 PART' BUILDING REGULA TIONS MOVING & DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS DEFINITIONS 8610. DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this Chapter certain words and terms are defined and shall have the meaning thus ascribed. 8610.1 BUILDING. Building is any structure designed, intended or used for the housing, storage or enclosing of vehicles, persons, animals or material and shall include industrial, commercial, residential and accessory buildings. .8610.2. DEMOLITION. Demolition in all its forms shall include the dismantling of a building for the salvage of materials therein. 8610.3. LOT Lot is a parcel of real property as defined in any of the following subsections. (a) A parcel of real property shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number or other designation on the latest plat including such property recorded in the office of the County Recorder. (b) An areo or parcel of land used or capable of being used for a building, with yards or other open spoces required by Article IX of the Code, provided such area or parcel contains not less than the prescribed number of square feet required in the zone in which such parce' is located, and provided that each such parcel has permanent, legal access to a public street. (c) A parcel of land other than such described in Section 8610.3(a) hereof held under separate ownership prior to the date of June 28, 1940, containing less than the prescribed minimum area and having permanent legol access to a public street. . . . ARTlCI,.E VIII CHAPTER 6 PART 2 BUILDING REGULA TlONS MOVING & DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS IMPORT OF BUILDINGS 8621. IMPORT PROHIBITED. No person shall move any building from any place outside af the CiJy to any place within the City. ,. EXCEPTIONS: (a) Through Transit. The provisions of Section 8621 shall not preclude any person from transporting a building through the City to 0 place outside of the City upon compliance with Part 4 of this Chapter. (b) Temporary Structures. The provisions of Section 8621 shall not preclude the transporting into or the use within the City of temporary facilities in accordance with or as required by other applicable regulations, such os construction offices, storage sheds; portable sanitation facilities, tents, bleacher seats, construction barricades .and the like, for use and if used only in connection with construction or other temporary activity lawfully conducted within the City. (c) Mobile homes. The provisions of Section 8621 shall not preclude the transportation or the installation of mobile homes certified under the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.c. Section 540 I, et seq.) on a foundation system, pursuant to Section 18551 of the Health and Safety Code, on lots zoned for single- fomily dwellings. (d) Disoster Shelters. The provisions of Section 8621 shall not preclude the transportotion or the installation of a prefabricated disaster shelter in accordance with applicable regulations. .. ARTICLEVII CHAPTER 6 PART 3 BUILDING REGULATIONS MOVING & DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS RELOCA TION OF BUILDINGS 8631. RELOCA nON PROHIBITED. No person shall move or relocate any building in the City to any other lot or place within the City. EXCEPTIONS: (a) Same Lot. A building constructed on a lot in the City may be relocated upon the some lot of Sections 8632 through 8637 are complied with. (b) Public School Buildings. The provisions of this Part shall not apply to the relocation by or on behalf of any school district of any building of such school district from a location in the City owned by such school district to a location within the City owned by such school district (c) Historical and Architectural Structures. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part, the City Council may authorize the location or relocation anywhere within the City of a building, structure or facility'which the Council, by the affirmative vote of the majority of its members entered upon the Council minutes, finds and determines to be of exceptional historical or architectural interest or significance, upon such conditions as the Council may impose in its authorizotion of such relocation. 8632. RELOCA nON PERMIT. No person sholl relocate any building on any lot in the City unless there shall have been first obtained from the Building Division and is still in effect a valid relocati9n permit therefore. within the City shall be issued if in the opinion of the Building Official such building does not comply with every applicable provision of this Code; provided, however, thot if such building may be mode to conform with the provisions of this Code 0 relocation permit may be issued if concurrently application is mode for and the required permits obtained for 011 alterations, repairs, additions and foundations necessary to make such building comply with 011 appl icable provisions of this code. 8632.2 APPLICATION FOR MOVE EXAMINATION. Every person intending to relocate any building in the City sholl first file with the Building Official on application for a Move Examination. Each such application sholl be accompanied by detailed plans and specifications in duplicate of the building proposed to be moved. The application shall include or be accompanied by eoch of the fol lowing. (0) The nome, address and telephone number of the owner of the bui Iding proposed to be relocoted. (b) The nome, address and telephone number of the person who will be in charge of and responsible for the relocation of the building and for compliance with all the requirements of this Division. (c) The street address and the legal description of the property upon which the building to be relocated is situated and the street address that will become applicable to the building upon its relocation. (d) A plot plan showing the proposed new location of the building. (e) A floor pion showing the orrangement and size of each room and the type and size of each window therein. (f) A plan of the. foundation to be provided at the proposed new site. (g) Elevations showing the proposed f,inished appearance of the front, sides and rear of the building. building. (i) A photograph of the building proposed to be relocated. 8632.3 INSPECTION FOR MOVE EXAMINATION. Upon the fil ing of an application for a Move Examination and payment of a Move Examination fee the Building Official shall examine the building therein described, shall review the plans and specifications submitted with such application and shall inspect the proposed new location of such building. The Building Official shall thereupon notify the applicant, personally or by mail, of the results of such examination and of the City's additional requirements, if any, for relocating such building. If the applicant does not apply for and obtain the relocation permit and building permit within ninety (90) days after the giving of such notice, he shall be required to reapply and to pay new fees. 8632.4 MOVE EXAMINATION FEE. Before a Move Examinatin is conducted pursuant to Section 8632.3, a fee shall be paid to the City in accordonce with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8633. RELOCATION PERMIT FEES. Before 0 relocation permit is issued under the provisions of this Part; a fee shall be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8634. COMPLETION BOND. Before issuance of a permit for the relocation of any building under the provisions of this Port, the applicant shall deposit with the City a cash bond in an amount equal to ane dollar ($1.00) per square foot of floor area contained within the building to be moved but in no event shall the sum thus deposited be less than four hundred dallars ($400.00) to guarantee removal and compliance with the provisions of this Part. Upon notification by the Building Official that the site clearance has been completed, the City Treasurer shall refund the depositor' the amount of the cash bond after first deducting therefrom all unpaid fees and penalties that moy be due to the City under the provisions of this Part, the costs as determined by the Director of Publ ic Works of repairing or replacing any Section 8635 uncompleted. 8635. COMPLETION TIME. The relocation of any building or structure within the City sholl be completed in 011 r,espects within thirty (30) days after the issuance of the permit therefor. Unless extended by the Building Official for good couse, every such relocation permit sholl expire and be of no effect after thirty (30) doys from dote of issuance. Relocation sholl not be deemed completed until the building is lowered onto its .foundations at the new site, ,all exterior damage site is cleared of 011 debris, footings and foundations and the site leveled to finished grade. 8636. FINAL INSPECTION. Upon completion of the relocation of 0 building within the City, the person owning the same sholl request on inspection from the Building Official. The Building Offcial sholl thereupon couse an inspection of the building to be mode and if he finds that 011 the provisions of this Division hove been complied with he sholl issue 0 written statement to such effect. 8637. ZONING COMPLIANCE. Every building or structure relocated within the City sholl comply with 011 the provisins of chapter 2 of Article IX of this Code applicable to the new location. ARTICLE VIII CHAPTER 6 PART 4 BUILDING REGULATIONS MOVING & DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS EXPORT OF BUILDINGS 8641. REMOVAL PERMIT. No person shall move any building through or from the City without first having obtained a removal permit therefore. 8641.1 APPLICATION FOR REMOVAL PERMIT. Every person intending to remove any building from the City sholl first file with the Building Official on application for a Removal Permit. Said opplication shall contoin the following information: (a) The street address and the legal description of the property from which the building is to be removed and to which it is to be moved. (b) The nome, address and phone number of the owner of the building to be moved. (c) The nome, address and phone number of the contractor who will move the building and his State contractor's license number. (d) The nome, adress ond telephone number of the person in charge, if he is not the owner, who will be responsible for 011 moving operations under the permit being applied for, including final clearance of the site. (e) The route proposed to be used for the moving of such building, and the dote and hour of the proposed moving, and such other information as maybe required by the Building Official. (f) The maximum height above street level that any portion of the building will be while being moved. (g) Each such application sholl be signed by the applicant or his authorized agent. If signed by on agent, the agent may be required to submit evidence of his authority to so sign the application. q en mus e complied with before a removal permit may be issued: (0) Insurance. Every person moving a building from or through the City shall take out and maintain a comprehensive public liability insurance to protect against loss from Iiobility for damages on account of bodily injury, including death, and to protect against loss for liability or damages to any property caused directly or indirectly by the moving of the building. Such insurance policy shall be maintained in full force and effect during the moving of the structure in amounts of not less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) for one person injured in one accident and nof less than Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) for more than one person injured in one accident, and in an amount of not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) with respect to any property damage aforesaid. The provisions of this Section as to insurance shall not be construed as limiting in any way the extent to which the permittee may be held responsible for the payment of domages. A certificate of insurance coveroge in the amounts specified in the permittee's policy but not less than the amounts specified in this Section, issued by a_.~.orporation authorized to do insurance business within the State of ~()iifornia, which certificate shall provide that the insurance thereby represented wi II not be cancelled, reduced or allowed to expire unless written notice be sent to the City at least ten (10) days in advance of any such cancellation, reduction or expiration, and naming the City of Arcadia, its officers and employees as an additional insured. All such insurance certificotes shall be submitted to the City Attorney for his approval before acceptance by the City. (b) Route Approval. No removal permit shall be issued by the Building Official except for a route, time. and date first approved by the Chief of Police. (c) Utility Clearance. No route shail be approved by the Chief of Police unless the applicant furnished to him a certificate from each g 0 opera Ing aCI lies 0 ong suc route that its facilities will not be required to be relocated or interrupted by the moving of the building along such route or that arrangements hove been mode by the applicant for the removal, relocation or restoration of such utility company's facilities with which the moving of the building along such route will interfere. (d) Disconnection of Utilities. No removal permit sholl be issued until 011 utility services hove been shut off and disconnected from the building to be moved. (e) Emergency Change. In the event of any emergency requiring the use of City streets for ony purpose with which the moving of 0 building would interfere, the Chief of Police sholl hove the outhority to require o change of the route to ovoid such interference. 8642. REMOVAL PERMIT FEES. Before 0 removal permit is issued under the provisions of this Port, 0 fee sholl be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8643. COMPLETION BOND. Before issuance of 0 permit for the export of any building from the City, the bonds os set forth in the following subsections sholl be deposited with the City to guarantee the complionce by the applicant with the provisions of this Port and sholl be used or refunded os provided by this Section. (0) A cosh bond in on amount equal to one dollar ($1.00) per square foot of floor ore contained within the building to be moved but in no event sholl the sum thus deposited be less than four hundred ($400.00) sholl be deposited by the house moved to guarantee removal and compliance with regulations controlling the exporting of buildings from the City. Upon notification by the Building Official that the removal has been completed, the City Treasurer sholl refund to the despoitor the amount of the cosh bond after first deducting therefrom 011 unpoid fees and the costs as determined by the Director of Public Works, or repairing or replacing ony public property damaged by the moving of the building, the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) per day for each day beyond the limit specified in the permit for completion of removal.of the structure during which the moving of the bujlding from the City remains uncompleted. (b) A cash bond in an amount equal to one dollar ($1.00) per square foot of floor oreo contained within the building to be moved but in no event ,shall the sum thus deposited be less than four hundred ($400.00) shall be deposi ted by or on behal f of the owner of the property from which the structure is to be removed, to guarantee final site clearance as required by Section 8645 (h), together with the written authorization of the owner of the property for the City or its agents to enter upon the land described in the application and to complete the site clearance as required by Section 8644 if not completed within the time specified by such Section. Upon notification by the Building Official that the site clearance has been completed, the City Treasurer shall refund the depositor the amount of the cosh bond ofter first deducting therefrom all unpaid fees and penalties that may be due to the City under the provisions of this Part, the costs as determined by the Director of Public Works, or repairing or replacing any public property damaged by the clearing of the site, and the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day for each day beyond the time specified in Section 8644 that the site clearance is not completed. (c) A single cosh bond may be deposite.:J with the City under subparagroph (a) and (b) hereof for on entire area shown on an approved tentative or finol subdivision mop on file with the City. 8644. COMPLETION TIME. a e remova 0 any UI mg or structure within the City shall be completed in all respects within thirty (30) days after the issuance of the permi t therefore. Unless extended by the Sui Iding Official for good cause. every such removal permi t shall expi re and be of no effect after thirty (30) days from the date of issuance. Removal shall not be deemed completed until the site clearance required by Section 8645 (h) has been completed. (b) Within seventy-two (72) hours after elevation of a structure from its foundation, soid structure sholl be removed from the City. 8645 REGULA TlONS. Every person moving a building from or through the City shall comply with the following subsections: (a) License Required. No person except a house mover licensed by the State of California shall remove ony building from or through the City. (b) Posting Permit. . The permit required by this Part sholl be posted on the front of the building being moved. (c) Responsibility for Damage. Every person removing a building from the City shall moke good all damates or injuries caused by the moving thereof and shall execute an indemnity and hold harmless agreement in a form approved by the City Attorney holding harmless and indemnifying the City of Arcadia, its officers and employees. (d) Equipment. The wheels and rollers of all equipment used in moving of buildings sholl have sufficient tire or bearing width to prevent grooving, marring or damoging of any street, alley, or public property upon which the same may be used. (e) Lighting. Every building, while being moved upon any street, alley, or public property, shall at all times between sunset and sunrise be illuminated by adequote warning devices placed at each corner of the building and at the end of any projection thereof. street, alley, or property without the prior written approvol of the Chief of Police and of the Chief of the Fire Department. (g) Height. If the highest point of the building when loaded and ready for moving is more than sixteen (16) feet above the ground surface, the cost of rearranging, protecting and restoring the equipmnent of any public utility affected shall be borne by the perrl)ittee. (h) Site Clearance. The site in the City from which a building is removed shall be cleared of all foundations, driveways and walkways and all portions thereof, shall have all loose combustible materials and debris removed therefrom, and all excavations shall be filled in with soil free of debris. CHAPTER 6 PART 5 MOVING & DEMOLITION OF BUilDINGS DEMOLITION OF BUilDINGS. 8651. DEMOLITION PERMIT. No person shall demolish any building within the City unless a valid permit therefor has been obtained and is in effect as provided in this Part. A single permi t may include all structures to be demolished on a single lot. In the case of property being subdivided, one permit may include all structures to be demolished upon any or all lots, any portion of which ore included within such subdivision os shown by a tentative. or final tract map approved by the City. 8651.1 APPLICATION FOR DEMOLITION PERMIT. Every person intending to demolish any building within the City sholl first file with the Building Official an application for a demolition permit. Said application shall contain the following information: (a) Name, address and telephone number of the owner of the building to be demolished. (b) The address or legal description of the property upon which is situated the building intended to be demolished. (c) The name, address and telephone number of the person that will demolish the building for which permit application is made. (d) The state contractor's license number of the person described in subsection (c) if such person is not the same as the person described in subsection (0) hereof. (e) A precise description of the portion of the building to be demolished. (f) The name, address and telephone number of the person who will be in charge of ond responsible for all demolition operations under the permit being applied for, including final c1eoronce of the site. issued until all utility services have been shut off and disconnected from the building to be demolished. 8652. FEES. Before a removal permit is issued under the provisions of this Part, a fee shall be paid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8653. COMPLETION BOND. Before issuance of a permit for the demolition of any building under the provisions of this Port, the applicant sholl deposit with the City 0 cosh bond in on amount equal to one dollar ($1.00) per square foot of floor area contained within the building to be demolished, but in no event shall the sum thus deposited be less than four hundred dollars ($400.00), to guarantee demolition and compliance with the provisions of this Port, together with the written outhorizotion of the owner of the property for the City or its agents to enter upon the land described in the application and to complete the site clearance os required by Section if not completed within the time specified by Section 8654. Upon notification by the Building Official that demolition has been completed and the site thus cleo red, the City Treasurer sholl refund to the depositor the amount of the cosh bond deposited, after first deducting therefrom all fees and penalties payable to the City under the provisions of this Port, the cost as determined by the Director of Public Works of repairing or replacing any public property domoged by the demolition of the building, and the sum of fifteen dollars ($1 S.OO) per day for each day beyond the limit specified in the permit for the completion of the demolition and the clearance of the site in accordance with the provisions of this Port during which such demolition and site clearance remains uncompleted. 8654. COMPLETION TIME. The demolition of any building or structure within the City sholl be completed in 011 respects within thirty (30) days after the issuance of the permi t issued therefore. Unless extenaed by the Bui Iding Official for good couse, every such 8emolition permit sholl expire and be of no effect after thirty (30) days from the dote of issuance. Demolition shall not be deemed completed until the site clearance required by Section 8655 (e) has been completed. In e I y sholl comply with the regulations set forth in the following subsections: (a) License Required. No person except a person properly licensed therefor shall demolish ony building; provided, however, that the owner of a building may demolish his own building provided he owns the property on which his building stands. (b) Posting Permit. The permit required by this Part shall be conspicuously posted in the immediate vicinity of the building being demolished. (c) Responsibility for Damage. Every person demolishing a building within the City shall make good all damages or injuries caused by the demolition thereof and shall execute an indemnity and hold harmless agreement in a form approved by the City Attorney holding harmless and indemnifying the City of Arcadia, its officers and employees. (d) Control of Dust. Every person demolishing a building within the City shall cause all dry or dusty materials or debris to be wet down to lay the dust. (e) Site Clearonce. All combustible materials or debris remaining at the site at the completion of the work shall be removed, all cement, steel or other building material removed to a point even with the finish grade and all excavations filled in to average grade with soil free of debris. CHAPTER 7 PART I MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING REGULA TIONS. SIGN REGULATIONS 8710. DEFINITION. A sign is anything placed on the exterior of a building or on a building site for the purpose of advertising or soles promotion and sholl include the sign structure and all ports thereof, including supports. 8711. SIGN PERMIT. No person shall install, add to, or alter, any sign or any part thereof without first obtoining 0 permit to do so from the Building Official and paying the required fees, except that 0 permit sholl not be required for signs which are not regulated by provision of the Building Code or the Electrical Code. 8711.1. APPLICATION FOR SIGN PERMIT. An application for 0 sign permit sholl be filed on 0 form furnished by the Building Division. Two (2) sets of plans drown to scal,e sholl accompany the application and sholl show 011 details, including details of 011 supporting buildings and structures, which demonstrote that the sign complies with the requirements of this Port. 87'2. SIGN PERMIT FEES. Before 0 sign permit is issued under the provisions of this Part, 0 fee sholl be poid to the City in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. 8713. ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS. The provisions of the Building Code and the Electrical Code applicable to the issuance of permits and inspections of the work sholl apply to the issuance of permits for and inspection of signs. 8714. STOP ORDERS. Whenever work is being done contrary to the provisions of this Part, the Building Division shall issue and serve a written Stop Notice on ony person engaged in doing or causing the work to be done, and such person shall immediately stop such work until authorized by the Building Official to proceed ogain with the work. 8715. NOTICE TO COMPL Y. Whenever a sign or part thereof is maintained in violotion of the provisions of this Port, the Building Division shall issue ond serve a written Notice to Comply to the owner or occupant of the property on which the sign exists. The owner or occupant shall immediately take action to remove the sign' or to make necessary repairs or alterations. Issuance of such a Notice to Comply shall not prevent a misdemeanor prosecution for the violation. 8716. COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS. All sign shall comply with the Zoning Ordinonce, applicable provisions of the Building Code ond Electricol Code, and the provisions of this Part. 8717. IDENTIFICATION. No sign shall be installed unless the name of the person insalling the sign is plainly set forth thereon. CHAPTER 7 PART 2 MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING REGULATIONS. SANITARY FACILITIES 8720. BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTUCTION. No person shall commence or proceed with the erection, construction, repair, raising, adding to, removal or demolition of any building, unless such person shall place and maintain upon the site of such construction work, for the use of any person emplayed or working upan any such building or portion thereof, a water-flush toilet enclosed within a suitable building or structure and connected to a cesspool ar sewer. In the event such construction work is being done upon two or more adjoining lots or parcels of land by the owner thereof or a contractor, such water-flush toilet may be placed and maintained by such owner or contractor upon any of such lots or parcels of land provided such toilet is located within a reasonable .distance of the lot or premises upon which such construction work is being done, ond shall in no case be located more than two hundred fifty (250) feet from the site of the work being done. In the event that a cesspool or sewer is not available for use at or near the site of the proposed work, the Building Official may authorize the temporary use of a sanitary chemical toilet, but in no event shall a privy, privy vault, dry privy or privy structure be erected, constructed, used or maintained at or upon the site of any such construction work. -- - - .- .. CHAPTER 7 MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING REGULATIONS PART 4. SWIMMING POOL REGULATIONS 8740. DEFINITION. A swimming pool shall mean and include every artificial body or open container of water permanently constructed or mointained upon any lot, whether designed, intended or used exclusively or principally for swimming or not. 8741. SWIMMING POOL PERMIT. No person sholl instoll, odd to, or alter any swimming pool or any part thereof without first obtaining a permit to do so from the Building Official and paying the required fee. 8741.1. APPLICATION FOR SWIMMING POOL PERMIT. An application for a swimming pool permit shall be. filed on a form furnished by the Building Division. Two (2) sets of plans drawn to scale shall accompany the application and shall show all details which demonstrate that the swimming pool complies with the requirements of this Part. 8742. SWIMMING POOL PERMIT FEE (a) Swimmimg Pool Permit Fee. Before a swimming pool permit is issued under the provisions of this Part, a fee shall be paid to the Ci ty in accordance with the amount set forth by resolution of the City Council. The determination of value or voluation under any of the provisions of this Part shall be made by the Building Official. (b) Plan Review Fee. When the voluation of the proposed construction exceeds five hundred dollars ($500.00), a plan review fee shall be paid at the time of submitting pions ond specifications for review. Said plan review fee shall be 50 percent {50%) of the swimming pool permit fee. Where plans ore incomplete or changed so os to require additional plan review, and additional plan review fee shall be charged at a rate established by the Building Official pe m IS issued within 180 doys following the date of opplication shall expire by limitation and plans and other- data submitted for review may thereafter by returned to the applicant or destroyed by the Building Official. The Building Official may extend the time for action by the appl icant for a period not exeeeding 180 days upon request by the applicant showing that circumstances beyond the control of the applicant have prevented action from being taken. No application shall be extended more than once. In order to renew action on an application after expirotion, the opplicont shall resubmit plans ond poy a new pion review fee. (d) Investigation Fees: Work Without a Permit. (J) Investigation. Whenever ony work for which 0 permit is required by this code has been commenced without first obtaining soid permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit maybe issued for such work. (2) Fee. An investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be collected whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The investigotion fee sholl be equal to the amount of the permit fee required by this Code. The payment of such investigation fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with 011 other provisions of this Code nor from any penalty prescribed by low. (e) Fee Refunds. (I) The Building Official may authorize the refunding of any fee paid hereunder which wos erroneously poid or collected. (2) The Building Officiol may authorize the refunding of not more than 80 percent of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under 0 permit issued in occordance with this Code. more than 80 percent of the plan review fee paid when an appl icat ion for a permi t for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or cancelled before ony plan reviewing is done. The Building Officiol sholl not outhorize the refunding of any fee paid except upon written application filed by the original permittee not later. than 180 days after the date of fee payment. CHAPTER 7 PART 5 MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING REGULATIONS HOUSE NUMBERING SYSTEM 8750 ADOPTION. There is hereby adopted and established a system for the , numbering of houses and store entrances os provided in this Chapter. 8751. BLOCK DIVISION. For the purpose of such enumeration all blocks on Santa Anita Avenue, on First Avenue, and on Second Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and Duorte Rood, sholl be divided into sections of twenty (20) feet, and all blocks on all other streets, for the purpose of such enumeration, shall be divided into sections of twenty-five (25) feet. 8752 METHOD OF NUMBERING. All house or st.)re numbers shall be numbered according .to the successive subdivisions of twenty (20) or twenty- five (25) feet, as the case may be, allowing one number for each twenty (20) or twenty-five (25) feet, as the case may be, and allowing not in excess of one hundred (I 00) numbers for each block; that is, there shall be no more than fifty (50) odd numnbers on one side of any street so numbered, nor more than fifty (SO) even numbers on the other side of any street so numbered. Each successive block shall be similarly numbered with successive series of hundreds. 8752.1 SAME. DIVISION POINT. Santa Anita Avenue is hereby adopted and established as the dividing line east and west for the purpose of such system of numbering, and that portion of Huntington Drive extending easterly from Santa Anita Avenue and known as. East Huntington Drive and its prolongotion westerly to the westerly boundary of the City is hereby adopted and established as the dividing line north and south for the purpose of such system of numbering. 8752.2 SAME. EAST - WEST STREETS. All houses or store entrances on the northerly side of streets running easterly and westerly shall receive odd numbers, commencing at Santa Anita Avenue with number one (I) and increasing successively easterly and westerly therefrorr.. All houses of store entrances on the southerly side of streets runn.ing easterly and westerly shall and increasing successively easterly ar:d westerly therefrom. All numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running easterly and westerly west of Santa Anita Avenue sholl be designated by the word "West" in addition to such numbers. Numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running easterly and westerly east of Santa Anita Avenue shall be designated by the word "East" in addition to such numbers. 8752.3 SAME. NORTH-SOUTH STREETS. All houses or store entrances on the westerly side of streets running northerly and southerly shall receive odd numbers, commencing at East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly with number one (I) and increasing successively northerly and southerly therefrom. All houses or store entrances on the easterly side of streets running northerly and southerly shall receive even numbers, commencing at East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly with number two (2) and increasing successively northerly and southerly therefrom. All numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running northerly and southerly north of East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly shall be designoted by the word "North" in addition to such numbers. Numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running northerly and southerly south of East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly shall be designated by the word "South" in addition to such numbers. 8753. ASSIGNMENT OF NUMBERS. It is hereby made the duty of the Director of Public Works to furnish to any applicant therefor, upon blanks to be provided by the City, the correct number or numbers of ony lot, house or parcel of land within the City, determined from a careful computation arrived at from the official maps of the City or from measurements mode of the locotion of said houses or lond, according to the plan specified in Part I of this Chopter. 8754. EXCLUSIVE USE OF NUMBER. After receiving such official number from the Director of Public Works, the owner or occupant of the premise for which said official number has been so given shall be entitled to display such nmumber upon said premises and shall be entitled to the -exclusive use of such number for the said premises for which the same shall have issued, and said premise shall thereafter be entitled to be officially known buy such number thus furnished.