Ripon Municipal Code Ch. 15.16 Plumbing Code

Section 15.16.010 Adopted. The 1994 Edition of the Uniform Plumbing code, including all appendices thereto, published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, a copy of which is now on file in the Office of the City Clerk, and also in the Office of the Building Official of the City, and open to inspection by the public, is adopted by incorporation in this chapter as the Plumbing Code of the City pursuant to the provisions of the Government Code of the State of California relating thereto, and every provision therein set forth, except as amended in this chapter is referred to and made a part of this chapter as fully as if set forth in this chapter, and the amendments thereto set forth are enacted as a part thereof. (Ord. 554 § 1, 1996)

To provide for the administration and enforcement of this chapter, the office of plumbing official is created. The city council may appoint such assistants to the plumbing official to assist him in the discharge of his duties of office as they shall see fit. (Ord. 299 § 2, 1982)

city administrator. The office of plumbing official shall be at all time under the jurisdiction of the city administrator who shall be the administrative authority unless otherwise provided by law. (Ord. 299 § 3, 1982)

A. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of the Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the city jail or in the county jail for a period not to exceed ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment. B. Each separate day or any portion thereof during which any violation of the Code occurs or continues shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as provided in this section. C. The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of any of the provisions of the Code. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel provisions of the Code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorized is lawful. (Ord. 299 § 4, 1982)

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