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Home My WebLink AboutORD 761 (1978) ORDINANCE NO. 761 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ARTICLE 8, BUILDINC REGULATIONS, OF THE TUSTIN CITY CODE AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 755 The City Council of the City of mustin, California, does ordain that Ordinance No. ~'~'~' and Article ~, Building Regu- lations, Tustin City Code is hereby amended as follows: 1. Building Code, ChaDter l'is .hereby amended to read as follows: '- ARTICLE 8101 - AMENDMENT OF THE 1976 UNIFORM CODE The 1976 edition of the Uniform Building Code, is hereby amended as follows: Section 303(b) Add an additional paragraph to read as follows: "Buildings and structures requiring noise isolation and insulation and/or energy conservation as enforced bv the Building Official as required by Article 24, State Administrative Code, shall be plan checked bv the Buildin~ Official. In addition to the above plan check fee, a plan check fee in the amount of fifty percent of the Building Permit fee shall be charged for plan checking these State mandated acts." 2. Plumbing Code, Cha~ter 3, is hereby amended to read as follows: ARTICLE 8301 - AMENDMENTS The 1976 Uniform Plumbing Code is hereby amended as follows Section 315 Section 315 is amended by adding a new subsection to read as follows: " 315(g). All earth within the City of Tustin is corrosive unless the permittee proves to the satisfaction of the Building Official the sDecific earth is not corrosive to the plUmbinG piping, fittings, fixtures and/or equipment for installation in contact with or buried in the ground. Steel or galvanized steel shall be protected by at least double, spiral Wr~DDing half over- lapping with 10 mil plastic tape (total 40 mils cover) or aDoroved equal. ARTICLE 8303 - .~ENDMEMTS The 1976 Uniform Solar Energy Code is herebV amended as follows: Section 305 Section 305 is amended by adding a new subsection to read as follows: 305(g). All earth within the City of Tustin is corrosive unless the Dermittee ~roves to the satisfaction of the Building Official the specific earth is not corrosive to the Dlumbin~ piping, fittings, fixtures and/or equipment for installation in contact with or buried in the ground. Steel or galvanized steel 450 Ordinance No. Page 2, shall be protected by at .least double, spiral wraoping half over- ~ lapping with 10 mil plastic tape (total 40 mils cover) or aDoroved equal. 4 3. Electrical Code, ChaDter 4, is herebV amended to read 6 as follows: ARTICLE 8401 - A~ENDMENTS ~ The 1978 Edition, National Electric Code is hereby amended as foIlows: 8 (a) Section 110-5 9 Section 110-5 is hereby deleted and the following · 0 substituted to read: ~ "conductors normally used to carry current shall be of copper." IZ (b) Section 250-91(a) Section 250-9(a) is hereby deleted and the following substituted to read: "(a) Grounding Electrode Cbnductor. The grounding electrode conductor shall be of cooper. The material selecte~ shall be resistant to any corrosive condition existina at th~ installation or shall be suitably protected against corrosion. The conductor shall be solid or stranded, insulated, covered, or bare and shall be installed in one continuous length without a splice or joint. Exception No. 1: Splices in busbars shall be Dermitted. Exception ~]o. 2: Where a service consists of more than a single enclosure as permitted in Section 230-~5, it shall be missib!e to connect taos to the groundin~ electrode conductor. Each such tap conductor shall extend to the inside of each such enclosure. The grounding electrode conductor shall be sized in accordance with Table 250-94, but the tad conductors shall be permitted to be sized in accordance with the grounding electrode conductors specified in Table 250-94 for the largest conductor serving the respective enclosures." (c) Section 300-6(b) Section 300-6(b) is amended bv adding the followina paragraph: "All earth within the City of Tustin is corrosive unless the permittee proves to the satisfaction of the Buildin~ Official the specific earth is not corrosive for the installation of the above noted electrical items in contact with or buried in the earth. Unless authorized othe~ise bv the Buildin~ official, 50 all such items embedded in the ~round shall b~ protected by at least double, spiral wrapping half overlaDping with 10 mil plastic 31 tape (total 40 mils cover) or approved equal. ~Z 45 Ordinance No. Page 3 (d) Section 336-3 Section 336-3 is hereby omitted and the following is substituted to read: "336.3. Uses Permitted or Not Permitted. Type MM and NMC cables shall be permitted to be used in Class R-l, R-3 and M-1 occupancies provided the building does not exceed three floors above grade. For the PUrPOSe of this article, the first floor of a building shall be that floor designed for human habi- tation which is level with or above finished grade of the exterior wall line of 50 percent or more of its perimeter. (a) Type NM. This type of nonmetallic-sheathed cable shall be permitted to be installed for both exposed and concealed work in normally dry locations. It shall be permissible to install or fish type NM cable in air voids in masonry block or tile walls where such walls are not exposed or subject to excessive moisture or dampness. Type NM cable shall not be installed where exposed 'to corrosive fumes or vapors; nor shall it be imbedded in masonry, concrete, adobe, fill, or plaster; nor run in a shallow chase in masonry, concrete or adobe and covered with plaster, adobe or similar finish. (b) Type NMC. Type NMC cable shall be permitted for both exposed and concealed work in dry, moist, damp, or corrosive locations, and in outside and inside walls of masonry block or tile (c) Uses Not Permitted for Either Type NM or NMC. Types NM and NMC cables shall not be used as: (1) service-entrance cable, (2) in commercial garages, (3) in-theaters and similar locations, except as provided in Article 51~, Places of Assembly, (4) in motion-picture studios, (5) in storage batterV rooms, in hoistways, (7) in any hazardous location (8) embedded in poured cement, concrete, or aggregate. Exceotion: See Section 501-4(b) Exception.,, (e) Section 350-2 Section 350-2 is hereby omitted and the following is substituted to read: "350-2. Use. Flexible metal conduit shall n6t be used: (!) in wet locations, unless conductors are of the lead- covered type or of other type aDproved for the specific conditions; (2) in hoistways, other than orovided in Section ~20-21; (3) in storage-battery rooms; (4) in any hazardous location other than permitted in Section 501-4(b); (5) where rubber-covered conductors are exposed to 'oil, gasoline, or other materials having a deteri- orating effect on rubber; (6) underground or embedded in poured concreEe or aggregate; nor (7) ~XceDt for Class R-l, R-3 and M-1 occupancies) where subject to physical damage subsequent to in- stallation including occupancy. (f) Section 680-20 (a) (1) Section 680-20 (a)(1), as it relates to Article ~50~, 4.52 Ordinance No. ~ Page 4 Tustin City Code, is herebyomittedand the following is sub- stituted to read: "The installation and use of any underwater lighting fixtures supplied by a branch circuit either directly or by way of a transformer meeting the requirements of Section 680-5(a) shall be such that there be no shock hazard with a likely fault-cOndition by including the installation of a ground-fault circuit-interrupter in the branch circuit." -' 4. GENERAL PENALTY; CONTINUING VIOLATION No person shall violate any provision, or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Code or of any code adopted herein by reference. Any person violating any of the provisions or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this Code, or of any code adopted by reference herein, unless otherwise specified in this Code, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in the City or County jail for a period. of not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and im- prisonment. Each such person violating such provision or failing to comply with such requirements shall be guilty of a separate offense, and each day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this Code, or of any code adopted by reference herein, is comaitted, continued, or permitted by such person, shall constitute a separate offense, and shall be punishable accordingly. Provided further that each such person violating a provision which limits the time an act may be permitted or continued, each such period or portion thereof of which any violation of such provision is committed, continued or permitted by such person shall con-. stitute a separate offense, and shall be punishable accordingly. In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code, or of any code adopted by reference herein shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be summarily abated as such ~y this City, and each day such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate nuisance and offense. 5. SEVERABILITY OF PARTS OF CODE It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Code are severable,'and if any phrase, Clause, sentence, paragraph or Section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of com-. petent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Code. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Tustin, held on the 21st day of February, 1978. , z~53 STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF O~NGE ) SS ' CITY OF TUSTIN ) RUTH C. POE, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 7~1 was duly and regularly introduced and read at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of February , 1978 and was given its second reading and duly passed and adopte~ at a regular meeting held on the 21st day of February 1978, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: SHARP, WELSH , EDGAR, SCHUSTER MOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE ABSENT: ' COUNCILMEN: SALTARELLI City of Tust~"n, Cali±~ornia Publish Tustin News March 2, 1978