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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 207?
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
ADOPTING THE 1988 EDITION OF THE UNI-
FORM MECHANICAL CODE WITH AMENDMENTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That section 8-556 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-556. Adoption by reference.
There is adopted by the city that certain code
known as the uniform Mechanical Code, 1988 Edition,
together with the appendices and code standards therein.
The said code is adopted and incorporated as fully as if
set forth at length herein as provided for in Section
419 of the Charter of the city. Any provision of this
article amending the "Mechanical Code" or "Uniform
Mechanical Code" shall be construed as amending the
above-said code edition including such provisions enacted
prior to the adoption of the abovesaid code edition and
not thereafter repealed. The above-said code edition as
thus amended, together with all other provisions of this
article, shall be known as the mechanical code of the
City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 2: That section 8-557 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-557. Board of Appeals (Section 203).
Section 203 of the Mechanical Code is deleted.
SECTION 3: That section 8-558 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-558. Permits; required (Section 301).
Subsection (a) of section 301 of the Mechanical
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or
corporation to make any installations, alterations,
repair, replacement or remodel any mechanical system
regulated by this code except as permitted in subsection
(b) of this section, or cause the same to be done without
first obtaining a separate mechanical permit for each
separate building or structure, each office suite, and
each unit in a commercial or industrial building.
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SECTION 4: That section 8-559 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8-559. violations and Penalties (Sec. 204).
Section 204 of the Mechanical Code is amended to
read as follows:
Any person violating any provision of the Mechanical
Code shall be punished as provided in section 1-8 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code, and in addition, all procedures
for the correction of illegal conditions shall apply.
Each separate day or any portion thereof during
which any violation of this code occurs or continues
shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as herein
provided.
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 this code. No permit presuming
to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of
this code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or
use which it authorized is lawful.
The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of
plans shall not prevent the administrative authority
from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in
said plans and specifications or from preventing
construction operations being carried on thereunder when
in violation of this code or of any other ordinance or
from revoking any certificate of approval when issued in
error.
Sec. 8-560.
SECTION 5: That section 8-560 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Fees (Section 304 and Table No. 3-A).
Subsections (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) of section
304 and Table No. 3-A of the Mechanical Code are deleted.
SECTION 6: That sections 8-561, 8-562, 8-563, 8-570, 8-
610, 8-620, and 8-630 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code are
hereby repealed.
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SECTION 7: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City
Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would
have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sent-
ence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconsti-
tutional.
SECTION 8: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the
repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the
prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed
as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating
to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal
provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect
the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof,
required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any
ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder apper-
taining shall continue in full force and effect.
ADOPTED this ]Tth day of September , 1990.
ATTEST:
Janice C. Guy
Clerk of the Council
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young Aye
Ac os t a Aye
Griset A.ye
May ^ye
McGuigan ^ye
Norton Aye
Pulido Aye
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Edward/J .k~C~ ope r
City Attorney