Orange County Municipal Code Art. 11 Harbor Sanitation

(a) No person shall discharge, or permit or allow any other person on a vessel under his control or command to discharge, any human or animal excreta from any head, toilet or similar facility or otherwise from a vessel into the waters of a harbor.

(b) No person shall throw, discharge, deposit or leave or cause, suffer or permit to be thrown, discharged, deposited or left, either from the shore or from any pier or vessel or from any factory or elsewhere, any refuse matter of any description, into the navigable waters of a harbor.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

The owner or operator of any commercial boat docking facility or marina located on the waters of a harbor shall install and maintain at his/her expense in conspicuous locations on the premises thereof standard signs to inform the public of the regulations prohibiting the discharge of toilets on any vessel into the waters of a harbor and other provisions of this article 11 which relate to harbor sanitation. Uniform standards and specifications for the design and general locations of such signs may be prescribed by Director.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

No person shall place or allow vessels, boats, materials, garbage, refuse, timber or waste matter of any description to remain on the shorelines of a harbor or beach. The Director may, when he/she determines that public safety and convenience so require, remove and store or dispose of the same with or without notice, at his/her option, and all expenses necessarily incurred in such removal and storage or disposal shall be paid by the owner or by the person placing or causing it to be placed on the shoreline. Said expenses shall include a charge for storage, or disposal at rates determined by resolution of the Board of Supervisors, for each day said vessel or other matter is stored by the Director.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

Notwithstanding the preceding section, vessels not exceeding twelve (12) feet in length may be kept on the shoreline in unincorporated areas designated by resolution of the Board and so posted.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

No person shall pump or discharge from any vessel or tank into the waters of a harbor, oil, spirits or any flammable liquid, or deposit any rubbish, refuse matter or articles of any offensive character therein or upon any pier or street leading to such facility.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

No person shall throw, place or leave any dead animal or putrefying matter into or in the waters of a harbor, on or along the shore of any harbor or beach.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

No person shall own or operate a vessel equipped with any head (toilet) or receptacle for human body wastes in the waters of a harbor unless:

(1) Said vessel is also equipped with a holding tank designed to retain all human body wastes deposited in said head or receptacle until such time as said sewage can be discharged into a sanitary sewer system or discharged otherwise in accordance with law; or

(2) Said head or receptacle is connected directly to a sanitary sewer system; or

(3) Said head or receptacle is connected to an on-board sewage treatment system which produces an effluent meeting such standards as may be approved by the County Health Officer for discharge into the waters of a harbor.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)

The owner and operator of every commercial marina shall provide a permanent holding tank pump-out facility or equivalent services which are operable and available for use at all times and which are capable of servicing all vessels berthed, docked or moored at said marina.

(Ord. No. 99-21, § 1, 8-31-99)