Lomita Municipal Code Ch. 2 Sanitary Sewers and Industrial Wastes

There is hereby adopted as the rules and regulations of the sewer system of the City of Lomita, Los Angeles County Code, Title 20, Utilities, Division 2, Sanitary Sewers and Industrial Wastes, as amended July 27, 1989.

Three (3) copies of said Los Angeles County Code, Title 20, Division 2, as amended, have been deposited with the city clerk of the City of Lomita and shall be at all times maintained by said city clerk for use and examination by the public.

The city council may, by resolution, adjust the amounts of any fees or charges imposed by the rules and regulations adopted herein.

(Ord. No. 290, § 1, 11-6-78; Ord. No. 337, § 1, 6-7-82; Ord. No. 459, § 1, 2-5-90)

(a) Section 20.28.050 of said Title 20, Division 2 is amended to read as follows:

"The city engineer may recommend that the council approve an agreement to reimburse or agree to reimburse a subdivider, school district, an improvement district formed under special assessment procedures, or person for the cost of constructing sanitary sewers for public use where such sewers can or will be used by areas outside of the proposed development; and to establish a reimbursement district and collection rates as described in the agreement under the provisions of this ordinance."

(b) Section 20.32.150 of said Title 20, Division 2 is amended to read as follows:

"In the event the city manager determines that the property described in the application for a permit is included within a sewer reimbursement district, which has been formed by the council in accordance with section 20.28.050, the charge for connecting to the public sewer shall be as set forth in the agreement."

(c) Section 20.32.290 of said Title 20, Division 2 is hereby repealed.

(d) Section 20.32.280 of said Title 20, Division 2 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

"All monies collected under this section for sewer maintenance are to be submitted directly to the county sewer maintenance district for inclusion in the maintenance district's funds."

(e) Section 20.32.690 of said Title 20, Division 2 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

"In the event the damaged public sewer is not in a sewer maintenance district, the violator shall reimburse the city within thirty (30) days after the city engineer shall render an invoice for the same. The amount, when paid, shall be deposited in the city treasury."

(Ord. No. 290, § 1, 11-6-78; Ord. No. 337, § 1, 6-7-82)

Editor's note— It should be noted that the amendments given in this section are to the Dec. 7, 1981, regulations formerly adopted in § 5-2.01. Ord. No. 459, in its amendment of § 5-2.01, failed to address this § 5-2.02.

Whenever in said Title 20, Division 2 reference is made to the unincorporated area of the County of Los Angeles, such area shall be deemed to include in its true geographical location the area of the City of Lomita.

(Ord. No. 290, § 1, 11-6-78; Ord. No. 337, § 1, 6-7-82)

Whenever any of the following names or terms are used in said Title 20, Division 2, each such name or term shall be deemed and construed to have the meaning ascribed to it in this section as follows:

(1) Board shall mean the city council.

(2) County engineer shall mean the city engineer.

(3) County health officer shall mean the city health officer.

(4) County of Los Angeles shall mean the City of Lomita except in such instances where the County of Los Angeles is a correct notation due to circumstances.

(5) County sewer maintenance district shall mean the county sewer maintenance district except in the instance where the territory concerned either is not within or has been withdrawn from a county sewer maintenance district. In any such instance "county sewer maintenance district" shall mean the City of Lomita.

(6) Ordinance means an ordinance of the City of Lomita except in such instances where the reference is to a stated ordinance of the County of Los Angeles.

(7) Public sewer means all sanitary sewers and appurtenances thereto, lying within streets or easements dedicated to the city, which are under the sole jurisdiction of the city.

(8) Trunk sewer means a sewer under the jurisdiction of a public entity other than the City of Lomita.

(Ord. No. 290, § 1, 11-6-78; Ord. No. 337, § 1, 6-7-82)