Redondo Beach Municipal Code Art. 6 Sanitation Regulations

It shall be unlawful for a person to throw, discard, or discharge, or deposit any refuse upon the lands or into the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility or for a person to discharge or deposit any refuse on or adjacent to the banks, shores, bulkheads, piers, wharves, or beaches of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility where such material may be liable to be washed or otherwise deposited into the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility by tides, floods, storms, waves, or accidental displacement.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

A person shall not discharge, deposit, or permit to pass into the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility any coal, tar, oil, gasoline, sludge, or residuary products of coal, petroleum, asphalt, bitumen, or other carbonaceous material or substance, nor any varnish, paint, or similar insoluble products. Any accidental spill of such materials or products shall be immediately reported to the Harbor Master, and it shall be a violation of this article to fail to do so.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) A person shall not place or deposit and subsequently abandon any dead animal, fish, shell fish, bait, or other putrefying matter on or along the structures, vessels, floats, piers, sidewalks, land or waterway of the harbor, or maritime facility, in the waters of the harbor or maritime facility.

(b) A person shall not clean fish on the jetties, breakwater, seawall, harbor structure, floats, pier, sidewalks, land, or waters in the harbors, waterway, or maritime facility, except at those places specifically designated by the Harbor Master for the purpose of cleaning fish.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) Restricted use. No person shall operate the toilet fixtures of a vessel within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility at any time so as to cause or permit to pass or to be discharged into the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility any excrement, sewage, or other waste matter or contaminant of any kind.

(b) Acceptable devices. Persons operating, maintaining, or possessing vessels using the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility may use and operate toilet fixtures equipped with Coast Guard approved and acceptable devices which will prevent contaminants from entering the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) The owner of any vessel not equipped with approved and acceptable devices for the neutralization or storage of contaminants shall post notices on such vessel that the toilet facilities aboard shall not be used while the vessel is moored in or using the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(b) In the event of an emergency, the Harbor Master may promulgate such additional regulations in connection with vessels used as residences as may be necessary to insure the maintenance of sanitary conditions and the preservation and protection of the public health and safety in the use of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility, or any portion thereof. Such regulations shall remain valid only for the duration of the emergency. A violation of any part of such regulations shall be cause for the revocation of the permit for using the vessel as an abode.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

The lessees, agents, managers, or persons in charge of a facility or water area under lease from the City or owned in fee in the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility shall at all times maintain the premises in their charge in a clean, sanitary condition, free from malodorous materials and the accumulation of refuse. Should the Director find that any facility or water area under lease is not so maintained, the Director shall notify in writing such lessee, agent, manager, or other person in charge of such facility or area to immediately commence and diligently prosecute to the completion the necessary correction of the unsanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Director. Failure to do so with reasonable dispatch shall be a violation of this article, and the Director may then cause the condition to be corrected as deemed necessary and the costs of such correction to be charged to such lessee, agent, manager, or person in charge.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

Harbor Patrol Officers, or other properly designated City representatives, shall have the authority to control and issue citations for violation of the unlawful discharge of waste matter from the marine sanitation device upon the land or into the waters within the harbor area as described within this article. In order to enforce these provisions, Harbor Patrol Officers, or designees, shall have the right to board and inspect any vessel for marine sanitation device waste discharge violations when the vessel is located in an area where there is reasonable cause to believe that a pollution discharge has occurred. If the inspection is being made for pollution discharge of marine sanitation device waste, the owner of the boat, upon notice of inspection, may in lieu of inspection provide proof of a current Coast Guard approved marine sanitation device by a licensed marine surveyor, or other governmental agency authorized to approve such systems. Any owner of a vessel who fails to provide proof of a Coast Guard approved marine sanitation device, within 10 days, and who refuses to permit inspection of the vessel shall be in violation of this section.

(§ 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

Nothing stated herein shall preclude discharge into the harbor of that which at that time is permitted to be discharged by all federal, State or other local agencies.

(§ 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)