Cerritos Municipal Code Ch. 6.40 Water Efficient Landscape

Except as hereinafter provided, that certain water efficient landscape code known and designated as the State of California Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance and codified under the California Code of Regulations as Title 23, Division 2, Chapter 2.7, shall be and become the water efficient landscape code of the city of Cerritos. This water efficient landscape code shall regulate landscaping and landscape irrigation design, construction, and maintenance, and the routine auditing of landscape irrigation systems based on an approved landscape water budget, which establishes the maximum amount of allowable water usage for a specified landscape.

In the event of any conflicts between the provisions of the State of California Code of Regulations Title 23, Division 2, Chapter 2.7 and the Cerritos Municipal Code, the provisions contained in the Cerritos Municipal Code shall control.

One copy of said State of California Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance has been deposited in the office of the city clerk of the city of Cerritos and shall be at all times maintained by said clerk for use and examination by the public.

(Ord. 954 § 2 (part), 2010)

Whenever the term “local agency” is used in the State of California Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, said term shall be deemed and construed to mean the city of Cerritos.

(Ord. 954 § 2 (part), 2010)