Oceanside Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

For the purposes of this article the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Approved or approval. "Approved" or "approval" means the approval of the director, and "approval" means meeting the approval of the director as the result of investigation and tests conducted by the director or by reason of accepted principles or tests by natural authorities, technical or scientific organizations or a research laboratory of recognized authority.

Building. "Building" includes all structures.

Department. "Department" means the County of San Diego Department of Health Services.

Director. "Director" means the Director of the County of San Diego Department of Health Services.

Drainage system or drainage piping. "Drainage system" or "drainage piping" means and includes all the piping within public or private premises which conveys sewage or other liquid wastes, to a legal point of disposal, but shall not include the mains or laterals of a public sewer system.

Plumbing. "Plumbing" includes all drainage systems, both direct and indirect, and all vent piping, water piping and other piping in any building or within the boundaries of any property through which sewage, water, wastewater or any other substance or liquid is conveyed.

(Ord. Code, §§ 8410 to 8410.6; Ord. No. 81-31, § 1, 6-3-81)

This article shall be known as the "Septic Tank Ordinance."

(Ord. Code, § 8411)

When a public sewer is not located in a public street, alley or easement within one hundred (100) feet of the lot on which any building is located, the plumbing and drainage system of such building shall be connected to an approved private subsurface sewage disposal system.

(Ord. Code, § 8423.1)

The type of sewerage system required shall be determined on the basis of location, area, soil porosity, the groundwater level, the density of population in the area and shall be designed to receive and dispose of all sewage and liquid waste from the property served.

(Ord. Code, § 8423.2)

No person shall maintain a septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system on any premises when a public sewer is located in a public street, alley or easement within one hundred (100) feet of the lot on which any building is located.

(Ord. Code, § 8424)

Where a public sewer is installed adjacent to premises upon which there is located an existing building served by a septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface disposal unit or system, the director may approve the continued use of such subsurface disposal system until such time as he deems that the public health and sanitation require the connection of such building to the public sewer and the discontinuance of the use or maintenance of such subsurface disposal system.

(Ord. Code, § 8424.1)

For the temporary occupancy of buildings in isolated areas remote from any public highway, the director may authorize the construction and use of an approved type sanitary toilet in lieu of connection to a public sewer or to a subsurface disposal unit or system installed in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(Ord. Code, § 8425)

No person shall install or permit to be installed an interconnection between a drinking water supply and any equipment or connection of any kind, class or description which may contain water or liquid or substance unfit for human or domestic consumption.

(Ord. Code, § 8471)

The director shall make or cause to be made inspections to determine if such conditions exist. If such interconnections are discovered, the director shall require the purveyor of water to discontinue water service unless the condition is abated within a reasonable period of time fixed by the director.

(Ord. Code, § 8472)

No device shall be sold in the city which provides such an interconnection as a means of operation unless the water supply is adequately protected.

(Ord. Code, § 8473)

No opening shall be provided in any drainage system or in any septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface disposal unit or system for the purpose of receiving the surface drainage from any yard or building.

(Ord. Code, § 8474)

It shall be unlawful for any person to connect any house sewer line or other plumbing to a septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system hereafter installed, constructed or reconstructed unless such septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system has been approved by the director as provided in this article.

(Ord. Code, § 8476)

It shall be the duty of the director to see that there is compliance with the terms and provisions of this article.

(Ord. Code, § 8441.1)

Any person who violates, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this article, or who maintains in service any plumbing system or any septic tank, settling tank, cesspool or other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system installed, constructed, reconstructed or altered in violation of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. Code, § 8481)