Torrance Municipal Code Art. 3 Garbage Grinders

The following words and phrases shall, for the purpose of this Article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section:

a) Food shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, whether simple or compound, and all substances and ingredients used in the preparation thereof.

b) Food Processing Establishment shall mean any room, building or place or portion thereof, maintained, used or operated for the purpose of commercially storing, packaging, making, cooking, mixing, processing, bottling, canning, packing, slaughtering or otherwise preparing or handling food.

Subject to the provisions of Section 43.3.5. of this Article, all buildings which are hereafter constructed, remodeled or altered and which are designed, equipped or used for residential purposes or as a food processing establishment, shall have garbage grinders installed therein; provided, however, that garbage grinders need not be installed in such buildings to dispose of packaged or canned foods which are not opened on the premises on which such building is located.

In all such buildings which are designed, equipped or used for multiple family dwellings, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 43.3.5., a garbage grinder shall be installed in each residential unit thereof. In all other such buildings there shall be installed enough garbage grinders to grind all garbage and food processing wastes produced in such building.

All garbage grinders which are hereafter installed shall be connected to the kitchen sink or sewer drain and so located as to discharge all ground material by flushing it with water through the drain pipe into the sewer.

Garbage grinders shall not be installed in any such building where the City Engineer has determined that the sewer lines or cesspools servicing such building are inadequate to efficiently transport the material which would be expelled therein by such installation.