Newark Municipal Code Ch. 13.12 Water Mains and Hydrants on Private Property

A. Whenever the fire chief finds and determines that private property or an area or portion thereof is beyond the practical availability of publicly maintained fire hydrants and is such a distance therefrom that the property cannot be adequately served by publicly maintained fire hydrants and shall find and determine further that the private property or area or portion thereof has been developed to such a density, either by residential development or other types of structures, that an additional fire hazard is created by reason of the development and by reason of the property or area or portion being beyond publicly maintained fire hydrants, then and in that event the fire chief shall order the property owner or owners to install on the private property or area or portion thereof on which the hazard exists sufficient water mains and meters of adequate size and fire hydrants of such kind, size and style and in such numbers as the fire chief may find and determine to be necessary for the protection of such private property or portion or area thereof or properties adjacent thereto against the hazard so found to exist.

B. The order shall be given in writing to the owner or owners of property on which the hazard is found to exist, and the order shall state in detail the installations required. The order may be delivered to the property owner in person or may be mailed to such person by registered mail if the same is addressed to the property owner at the address shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county of Alameda, with the postage prepaid thereon and deposited in the United States mail.

C. The installation as ordered by the fire chief shall be at the cost of the property owner or property owners and shall be commenced within thirty days from the date of the notice and diligently prosecuted to completion and in any event the same shall be completed within sixty days from the date of the notice unless the fire chief, in writing, for good cause shown, extends the time.

(Ord. 89 § 1, 1964)

A. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who causes, permits or suffers the same to be done is guilty of a misdemeanor, where no other penalty is provided, and upon conviction thereof, such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day's violation is a separate offense.

B. The violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall also be deemed a nuisance. Civil action to abate, enjoin or otherwise compel the cessation of such nuisance may be taken by the appropriate legal officers of the city.

(Ord. 89 § 2, 1964)