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SECTION 4: Section 8-290 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended such that it reads as follows: Sec. 8-290. Adoption by reference. There is adopted by the city that certain code known as the California Plumbing Code, 2016 2019 Edition, including the following appendices thereto: A, B, D, I and J, (hereinafter referred to in this article as the "Plumbing Code"), together with subsequent supplements or amendments, which shall become effective, adopted and incorporated by reference into this Code on the date specified by the state building standards commission, unless otherwise specified. The plumbing code is adopted and incorporated by reference as fully set forth at length herein as provided for in section 419 of the Charter of the city, except for the changes to the plumbing code set forth in this chapter of this Code that specifically amend the plumbing code. Any previously enacted, unrepealed provision of this Code that amended a pre-2816 2019 edition of the "Plumbing Code" shall also be construed as amending the applicable provision of the 201-6 2019 or later edition of the plumbing code. The plumbing code as amended, together with all other provisions of this article, shall be known as the city plumbing code. SECTION 5: Section 8-340 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended such that it reads as follows: Sec. 8-340. Underground Installation (California Plumbing Code Section 313.5). Section 313.5 of the Plumbing Code is amended to read as follows: 313.5. Underground Installation. Piping in the ground shall be laid on a firm bed for its entire length. Building drains, sewers and storm drain piping systems in the ground, and designed and approved at less than one (1) percent grade, shall be laid on a continuous firm bed, certified by a registered soils engineer as having a compaction level of not less than ninety (90) percent density. Where support is otherwise provided, it shall be approved per Section 301.2 of this code. SECTION 6: Section 8-556 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended such that it reads as follows: Sec. 8-556. Adoption by reference. There is adopted by the city that certain code known as the California Mechanical Code, 2016 2019 edition (hereinafter referred to in this article as the "California Mechanical Code" "Mechanical Code" or "mechanical code"), together with subsequent supplements, amendments, or editions, which shall become effective, adopted, and incorporated by reference into this Code on the date specified by the state building standards commission, unless otherwise specified. The mechanical code is adopted Ordinance No. NS-XXXX Page 3 of 36