Ordinance No. 1305ORDINANCE NO. 1305
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON
AMENDING SECTION 13.24.050 (DEFINITIONS) OF VERNON
MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 13.24 (SEWER SYSTEM) AND ADDING
SECTION 13.24.101 REGARDING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SEWER
SYSTEM PIPES
SECTION 1. Recitals.
A. The City of Vernon (City) is a municipal corporation and a chartered city of the
State of California organized and existing under its charter and the Constitution of
the State of California.
B. Vernon Municipal Code (VMC) Title 13 – Public Services (Public Services Code),
establishes regulations and provisions on the public utility services provided to the
City’s residents and businesses.
C. The City Council desires to amend VMC Section 13.24.050 to define sewer main
line and sewer lateral and add Section 13.24.101 to the VMC to state the
responsibility for maintenance and repair of the sewer main and lateral.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Vernon finds and determines that
the above recitals are true and correct and are a substantial part of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. This ordinance was assessed in accordance with the authority and
criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA
Guidelines, and the environmental regulations of the City. The City Council hereby finds
that the proposed action is exempt from CEQA review because it is general policy and
procedure-making activity that is unrelated to any specific project, which must undergo
separate CEQA review, and that will not result in direct physical changes or reasonably
foreseeable indirect physical changes in the environment, and therefore does not
constitute a “project” as defined by CEQA Guidelines Section 15378.
SECTION 4. Vernon Municipal Code Section 13.24.050 of Chapter 13.24 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and terms are defined and shall be
construed as herein set forth, unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the context in
which the words or terms are used clearly indicates a different intention.
"ARARs" means water quality standards that are considered by the USEPA to be
applicable or relevant and appropriate requirements.
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"Authorized non-stormwater discharge" means a discharge that is not composed entirely
of stormwater and that is either:
1. Separately regulated by an individual or general NPDES permit and allowed
to discharge to the MS4 when in compliance with all NPDES permit
conditions;
2. Authorized by USEPA pursuant to Section 104(a) or 104(b) of CERCLA that
either:
a. Will comply with water quality standards as ARARs under Section
121(d)(2) of CERCLA; or
b. Are subject to:
i. A written waiver of ARARs by USEPA pursuant to Section
121(d)(4) of CERCLA, or
ii. A written determination by USEPA that compliance with
ARARs is not practicable considering the exigencies of the
situation, pursuant to 40 CFR Section 300.415(j); or
3. Necessary for emergency responses purposes, including flows from
emergency fire fighting activities.
"Automotive service facility" means a facility that is categorized in any of the following SIC
codes: 5013, 5014, 5511, 5541, 7532—7534, and 7536—7539, or the North American
Industry Classification System ("NAICS") codes that are equivalent to said SIC codes.
"Best management practice" or "BMP" means a method, or physical device or system
designed to prevent or reduce pollutant loading from stormwater or non-stormwater
discharges into the MS4, or designed to reduce the volume of stormwater or non-
stormwater discharged into the MS4 to the maximum extent practicable.
"Bioretention" means a soil and plant-based BMP that captures and biologically degrades
pollutants as water infiltrates through sub-surface layers containing microbes that treat
pollutants. Treated runoff is then slowly infiltrated and recharges the groundwater.
Bioretention includes, but is not limited to, the reduction of stormwater runoff by
intercepting rainfall on a vegetative canopy and allowing the stormwater to escape
through evapotranspiration and infiltration.
"CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980 as amended, 49 U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq.
"Cesspool" means a lined excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of a
wastewater drainage system or part thereof, designed and constructed so as to retain the
organic matter and solids therein, but permitting the liquids to seep through the bottom
and sides.
"City" means the City of Vernon, California.
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"City Council" means the City Council of the City of Vernon.
"Clean Water Act" or "CWA" means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act enacted in
1972, 33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq., as amended. The Clean Water Act prohibits the
discharge of pollutants to the storm sewers and/or waters of the United States unless the
discharge is in accordance with an NPDES permit.
"Commercial malls" means any development on private land comprised of one or more
buildings forming a complex of stores which sells various merchandise, with
interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store, along with
parking area(s). A commercial mall includes, but is not limited to: mini-malls, strip malls,
other retail complexes, and enclosed shopping malls or shopping centers.
"Construction activity" means any construction or demolition activity, clearing, grading,
grubbing, or excavation or any other activity that results in land disturbance. Construction
activity does not include emergency construction activities required to immediately protect
public health and safety or routine maintenance activities required to maintain the integrity
of structures by performing minor repair and restoration work provided such work
maintains the original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purposes of the
facility.
"Control" means to minimize, reduce or eliminate by technological, legal, contractual, or
other" means, the discharge of pollutants from an activity or activities.
"Development" means construction, rehabilitation, redevelopment or reconstruction of
any public or private residential project (whether single-family, multi-unit or planned unit
development); industrial, commercial, retail, and other nonresidential projects, including
public agency projects; or mass grading for future construction. The term "development"
does not include: (1) routine maintenance; or (2) emergency construction activities
required to immediately protect public health and safety.
"Directly adjacent" means situated within 200 feet of the contiguous zone required for the
continued maintenance, function, and structural stability of an environmentally sensitive
area.
"Discharge" means any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, escaping, dumping, tracking
or disposal of any liquid, semi-solid substance, or solid substance.
"Disturbed area" means an area of land that is altered as a result of clearing, grading,
and/or excavation.
"Domestic wastewater" means wastewater from non-industrial activities that result from
normal human living processes irrespective of whether these wastes are discharged into
the sewer system, a cesspool, or a septic tank.
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"Drinking water supplier distribution systems releases" means discharges of water from
drinking water supplier storage, supply and distribution systems including, but not limited
to, flows from the following causes: system failures, pressure releases; system
maintenance; distribution line testing; fire hydrant flow testing; flushing and dewatering of
pipes, reservoirs, vaults, and minor non-invasive well maintenance; and flushing activities
not involving the addition of any chemicals. It does not include wastewater discharges
from activities that occur at wellheads, such as well construction, well development
including, but not limited to, aquifer pumping tests and well purging or major well
maintenance. Drinking water supplier distribution system releases include, but are not
limited to, releases of treated and raw water from raw water pipelines, reservoirs, and
storage tanks that are dedicated for drinking water supply purposes.
"Erosion and sediment control plan" or "ESCP" means a plan for projects including, but
not limited to, soil disturbance, grading, vegetation clearing, soil compaction, paving, re-
paving and linear underground or overhead project; and identifying potential pollutant
sources and describing the design, placement and implementation of BMPs to effectively
prevent non-stormwater discharges and reduce pollutants in stormwater discharges
during construction activities.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the California Regional Water Quality
Control Board, Los Angeles Region.
"Flow-through treatment BMPs" means modular, vault type high flow biotreatment
devices contained within an impervious vault with an underdrain or designed with an
impervious liner and an underdrain.
"General construction activities stormwater NPDES permit" or "GCASP" means the
general NPDES permit adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board which
authorizes the discharge of stormwater from construction activities under certain
conditions.
"General industrial activities stormwater NPDES permit" or "GIASP" means the general
NPDES permit adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board which authorizes
the discharge of stormwater from certain industrial activities under certain conditions.
"Illicit connection" means any man-made conveyance that is connected to the storm drain
system without a permit, excluding roof drains and other similar type connections.
Examples include, but are not limited to, channels, pipelines, conduits, inlets, or outlets
that are connected directly to the storm drain system.
"Illicit discharge" means any non-exempted, or non-approved discharge into the MS4 that
is prohibited under local, State, or Federal statutes, ordinances, codes, or regulations.
The term illicit discharge includes any non-stormwater discharge, except authorized non-
stormwater discharges; under a general industrial activities stormwater NPDES permit,
or a general construction activities stormwater NPDES permit, allowed by the Executive
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Officer, any conditionally exempt non-stormwater discharges; and nonstormwater
discharges resulting from natural flows as specifically identified in the municipal NPDES
permit.
"Illicit disposal" means any disposal, either intentionally or unintentionally, of material(s)
or waste(s) that can pollute stormwater.
"Industrial activity" means any of the 10 classifications of industrial facilities specified in
40 Code of Federal Regulations Section 122.26(b)(14), specifically Section
122.26(b)(14)(i) through (ix), and (xi), defined by a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
and which is required to obtain an NPDES permit. Industrial activity does not include
construction activities as defined in 40 Code of Federal Regulations Section
122.26(b)(14)(x).
"Industrial/commercial facility" means any facility involved and/or used in the production,
manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution, exchange or sale of goods and/or
commodities, and any facility involved and/or used in providing professional and non-
professional services. This category of facilities includes, but is not limited to, any facility
defined by either the Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) or the North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS) code equivalent to the SIC code. Facility
ownership (Federal, State, municipal, private) and profit motive of the facility are not
factors in this definition.
"Industrial park" means land development that is set aside for industrial/commercial
facility development. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities
especially where more than one transport modalities coincide: highways, railroads,
airports, and navigable rivers. It includes office parks which have offices and light industry
and associated parking area(s).
"Industrial wastewater" means all wastewater, excluding domestic wastewater. Industrial
wastewater may include all wastewater from any producing, manufacturing, processing,
institutional, commercial, agricultural, or other operation where the wastewater
discharged includes significant quantities of wastes of non-human origin. All liquid wastes
hauled by truck, rail, or other" means for disposal to the sewer, including domestic
wastewater so delivered, shall be considered industrial wastewater regardless of the
original source of the wastes.
"Infiltration" means the process by which water penetrates into soil from the ground
surface. Infiltration is a BMP that reduces stormwater runoff by capturing and infiltrating
the runoff into in-situ soils or amended on-site soils. Examples of Infiltration BMPs include,
but are not limited to, infiltration basins, dry wells and pervious pavement.
"Low impact development" or "LID" consists of building and landscape features designed
to retain or filter stormwater runoff.
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"Maximum extent practicable" or "MEP" means, within the context of BMP selection,
choosing effective BMPs and rejecting applicable BMPs only where other effective BMPs
will serve the same purpose, the BMPs would not be technically feasible, or the cost
would be prohibitive.
"Municipal NPDES permit" means the California Regional Water Quality Control Board,
Los Angeles Region, Order No. R4-2012-0175, NPDES Permit No. CAS004001, waste
discharge requirements for municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) discharges
within the coastal watersheds of Los Angeles County, except those discharges originating
from the City of Long Beach MS4, and any amendment, reissuance or revision thereto.
"Municipal separate storm sewer system" or "MS4" means a conveyance or system of
conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins,
curbs, gutters, ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains) that have all of the following
features:
1. Owned or operated by the State, City, town, borough, County, parish,
district, association, or other public body created by or pursuant to State
law, including, but not limited to, a special district, sewer district, flood
control district, drainage district or similar entity, an Indian tribe, authorized
Indian tribal organization or any designated and approved management
agency under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act; that discharges to the
waters of the United States; and has jurisdiction over the disposal of
sewage, industrial wastes, stormwater, or other wastes;
2. Designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater;
3. Not a combined sewer; and
4. Not part of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) as defined at 40 CFR
Section 122.2.
"National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System" or "NPDES" means the national
program for issuing, modifying, revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and
enforcing permits, and imposing and enforcing pretreatment requirements, under the
Clean Water Act Sections 307, 318, 402, and 405.
"Natural drainage system" means a drainage system that has not been improved (e.g.,
channelized or armored). The clearing or dredging of a natural drainage system does not
cause the system to be classified as an improved drainage system.
"New development" means land disturbing activities; structural development, including
construction or installation of a building or structure, creation of impervious surfaces; and
land subdivision.
"Non-stormwater discharge" means any discharge to the MS4 or to a receiving water that
is not composed entirely of stormwater.
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"Outfall" means a point source as defined by 40 CFR Section 122.2 at the point where a
municipal separate storm sewer discharges to waters of the United States and does not
include open conveyances connecting two municipal separate storm sewers, or pipes,
tunnels or other conveyances which connect segments of the same stream or other
waters of the United States and are used to convey waters of the United States.
"Owner," as applied to a building or real property, means any owner of record, including,
but not limited to, part owner, joint tenant, tenant in common, tenant in partnership or
tenant by the entirety of the whole or part of such building or real property.
"Parking lot" or "parking area" means land area or facility for the parking or storage of
motor vehicles used for businesses, commerce, industry, or personal use, with a lot size
of 5,000 square feet or more of surface area, or with 25 or more parking spaces.
"Person" means an individual, trust, firm, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity.
"Planning priority projects" means development projects subject to the City's conditioning
and approval for the design and implementation of post-construction controls to mitigate
stormwater pollution, prior to completion of the project(s).
"Point source" means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including, but
not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container,
rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system,
vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term
does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or agricultural stormwater runoff.
"Pollutant," as used in this chapter, has the same meaning as set forth in California Water
Code Section 13373 and includes but is not limited to, garbage, debris, lawn clippings,
leaves, fecal waste, biological waste, sediment, sludge, manure, fertilizers, pesticides, oil,
grease, gasoline, paints, solvents, cleaners, and any fluid or solid containing toxic or non-
toxic chemicals, metals, including batteries.
"Potable water" means water that meets the drinking water standards of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
"Privy" means a structure used as a toilet room in which human wastes are deposited
directly onto the surface of the ground or into a hole dug into the ground. Privies are also
commonly known as outhouses. Privy shall not include a portable toilet used at
construction sites or for temporary events as approved by the Health Officer.
"Project" means all development, redevelopment, and land disturbing activities. The term
is not limited to "project" as defined under the California Environmental Quality Act,
California Public Resources Code Section 21065.
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"Public sanitary sewer system" means as used in California Penal Code Section 374.2 as
amended including the City's sewers.
"Rainfall harvest and use" means a LID BMP system designed to capture runoff, typically
from a roof but can also include runoff capture from elsewhere within the site, and to
provide for temporary storage until the harvested water can be used for irrigation or non-
potable uses.
"Raw water" means water that is taken from the environment by drinking water suppliers
with the intent to subsequently treat or purify it to produce potable water. Raw water does
not include wastewater discharges from activities that occur at wellheads, such as well
construction, major well maintenance, or well development such as aquifer pumping tests
and well purging.
"Receiving waters" means waters of the United States into which waste and/or pollutants
are or may be discharged.
"Redevelopment" means land-disturbing activity that results in the creation, addition, or
replacement of 5,000 square feet or more of impervious surface area on an already
developed site. Redevelopment includes, but is not limited to: the expansion of a building
footprint; addition or replacement of a structure; replacement of impervious surface area
that is not part of a routine maintenance activity; and land disturbing activities related to
structural or impervious surfaces. Redevelopment does not include routine maintenance
activities that are conducted to maintain original line and grade, hydraulic capacity,
original purpose of facility or emergency redevelopment activity required to protect public
health and safety. Redevelopment does not include the repaving of existing roads to
maintain original line and grade.
"Regional Board" means the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los
Angeles Region.
"Restaurant" means a facility that sells prepared foods and drinks for consumption,
including stationary lunch counters and refreshment stands selling prepared foods and
drinks for immediate consumption and is identified as SIC code 5812.
"Retail gasoline outlet" means any facility engaged in selling gasoline and lubricating oils.
"Routine maintenance" means projects, including, but not limited to, projects conducted
to:
1. Maintain the original line and grade, hydraulic capacity, or original purpose
of the facility.
2. Perform as needed restoration work to preserve the original design grade,
integrity and hydraulic capacity of flood control facilities.
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3. Road shoulder work, regrading dirt or gravel roadways and shoulders and
performing ditch cleanouts.
4. Update existing lines and facilities to comply with applicable codes,
standards, and regulations regardless of whether such projects result in
increased capacity. The updating of existing lines includes replacing
existing lines with new materials or pipes but does not include construction
of new lines or facilities necessary to comply with applicable codes,
standards or regulations that are not associated with existing facilities and
are not part of a project to update or replace existing lines.
5. Replace impervious surfaces such as the reconstruction of parking lots and
roadways which does not disturb additional area and maintains the original
grade and alignment, is considered a routine maintenance activity.
6. Repair leaks.
"Runoff" means any discharge including stormwater and dry weather flows from a
drainage area that reaches a receiving water body or subsurface. During dry weather it
is typically comprised of base flow either contaminated with pollutants or uncontaminated,
and nuisance flows.
"Sanitation districts" means County Sanitation Districts Number 1, 2, and 23 of Los
Angeles County.
"Septic tank" means a watertight receptacle, which receives the discharge of a
wastewater drainage system or part thereof, designed and constructed so as to retain
solids, to digest organic matter though a period of detention, and to allow the liquids to
discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open joint piping or a
seepage pit.
"Sewer" means the lateral and connecting pipes, sumps, tanks, and all other means of
handling, gathering, and disposing of wastewater into the City sewer system, and shall
exclude the storm drain system.
“Sewer main line” means the principal public pipeline that collects and carries wastewater
from multiple properties or parcels to a wastewater treatment plant.
“Sewer lateral” means the private pipe extending from a property or parcel conveying
wastewater to the City’s sewer main line.
"Sewerage" means any and all stationary facilities used for collecting, conveying,
pumping, treating, and disposing of waste and wastewater.
"SIC" means the Standard Industrial Classification code which is a system for classifying
industries by a four-digit code.
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"Site" means the land or water area where any "facility or activity" is physically located or
conducted, including adjacent land used in connection with the facility or activity.
"Source control BMP" means any schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices,
maintenance procedures, managerial practices or operational practices that aim to
prevent stormwater pollution by reducing the potential for contamination at the source of
pollution.
"State Board" or "SWRCB" means the State Water Resources Control Board of the
California Environmental Protection Agency.
"State Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan" or "State SWPPP" means a plan, as
required by a State General Permit, identifying potential pollutant sources and describing
the design, placement and implementation of BMPs, to effectively prevent non-
stormwater discharges and reduce pollutants in stormwater discharges during activities
covered by a State General Permit.
"Storm drain" means any pipe, curb, gutter, catch basin, street, road, alley, waterway,
watercourse, drain, ditch, channel, stream bed, river bed, or tributary, whether a natural
drainage system or artificial drainage system, which is designed for or serves the purpose
of carrying off stormwaters, but does not include a sewer.
"Storm drain system" means any facility or any parts of the facility, including streets,
gutters, conduits, natural drainage systems, or artificial drains, channels and watercourse
that are used for the purpose of collecting, storing, transporting or disposing of stormwater
and are located within the City.
"Storm water" or "stormwater" means runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and
drainage related to precipitation events.
"Stormwater Quality Management Plan" or "SQMP" means the Los Angeles Countywide
Stormwater Quality Management Program, which includes descriptions of programs,
collectively developed by permittees in accordance with provisions of the municipal
NPDES permit, to comply with applicable Federal and State law, as the same is amended
from time to time.
"Structural BMP" means any structural facility designed and constructed to mitigate the
adverse impacts of stormwater and urban runoff pollution (e.g., canopy, structural
enclosure). The category may include both treatment control BMPs and source control
BMPs.
"Total maximum daily load" or "TMDL" means the sum of the individual waste load
allocations for point sources and load allocations for nonpoint sources and natural
background.
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"Urban runoff" means surface water flow produced by storm and non-storm events. Non-
storm events include flow from residential, commercial or industrial activities involving the
use of potable and nonpotable water.
"USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Wastewater" means the liquid carried wastes of the community including all constituents
and residues thereof. Wastewater is also called sewage and includes domestic and
industrial wastewater, but wastewater does not include rainwater, stormwater,
groundwater or drainage of other water.
"Water quality-based effluent limitation" or "WQBEL" means any restriction imposed on
quantities, discharge rates, and concentrations of pollutants, which are discharged from
point sources to waters of the United States necessary to achieve a water quality
standard.
SECTION 5. Section 13.24.101 is hereby added to Chapter 13.24 (Sewer
Systems) of the Vernon Municipal Code, as follows:
Maintenance of Sewer Main and Lateral
The sewer main line is owned and maintained by the City. The sewer lateral
between the property and the sewer main line is owned, and shall be maintained, by the
owner of the property served by the lateral.
SECTION 6. Any provision of the Vernon Municipal Code or appendices thereto
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies
and no further, is repealed or modified to that extent necessary to affect the provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION 7. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion thereof, of this ordinance is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted
this ordinance, and each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof, be declared invalid or
unconstitutional. To this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
SECTION 8. The City Clerk or Deputy City Clerk shall certify the adoption and
publish this ordinance as required by law.
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SECTION 9. This ordinance shall become effective after the thirtieth day following
its adoption.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED February 4, 2025.
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JUDITH MERLO, Mayor
ATTEST:
YONNIE PARKER, Deputy City Clerk
(seal)
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ZAYNAH N. MOUSSA, City Attorney
I CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE NO. 1305 was passed and adopted
by the City Council of the City of Vernon at the regular meeting on February 4, 2025, by
the following vote:
AYES: 3 Council Members: Lopez, Rivera, Ybarra
NOES: 0
ABSENT: 2 Council Members: Larios, Merlo
ABSTAIN: 0
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YONNIE PARKER, Deputy City Clerk
(seal)
City Council Agenda Report
Meeting Date:February 4, 2025
From:Deborah Harrington, Interim City Clerk
Department:City Clerk
Submitted by:Sandra Dolson, City Clerk Specialist
Subject
Amendment to Section 13.24.050 (Definitions) of Vernon Municipal Code Chapter 13.24 (Sewer
System) and Adding Section 13.24.101 Regarding Responsibility for the Sewer System Pipes
Recommendation
Conduct second reading and adopt Ordinance No. 1305 amending Vernon Municipal Code
Section 13.24.050 and adding Section 13.24.101 pertaining to sewer definitions and
responsibility.
Background
At the January 21, 2025 Regular City Council Meeting, the City Council introduced and conducted
first reading of Ordinance No. 1305. This ordinance amends Vernon Municipal Code Section
13.24.050 and adds Section 13.24.101 pertaining to sewer definitions and responsibilities. The
Vernon Municipal Code Section 13.24.050 does not currently state the definitions of the sewer
main line and sewer lateral. Many surrounding municipalities and utility agencies clearly define
these terms and specify ownership and maintenance responsibilities in their their respective
Code of Ordinances. Amending the Municipal Code will eliminate any ambiguity regarding who
is responsible for the maintenance and repair of sewer lines.
The summary of the Ordinance was posted on the City’s website on January 21, 2025 and
published on January 23, 2025, pursuant to legal requirements.
Fiscal Impact
The fiscal impact of publishing the ordinance is estimated at $230. Sufficient funds are available
in General Fund, City Clerk Department, Advertisement/Promotion Account No. 011-010-125-
525000 for the current fiscal year.
Attachments
1. Ordinance No. 1305
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VERNON, CA-90058 ADOPTION SUMMARYOOF ORDINANCE NO.
An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of
Vernon Amending Section 13.24.050(definitions)
of Vernon Municipal Code Chapter 13.24(sewer
system)and Adding Section 13.24.101 regarding
responsibility for the sewer system pipes.
Ordinance No. 1305 was introduced by the
Vernon City at its regular meeting o
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
January 21,2025,025,and adopted on February 4,
2025,by the following vote:
AYES:Lopez,Rivera,Ybarra
NOES:None
(2015.5 C.C.P.) ABSENT:Larios,Medo
ABSTAIN:None
The full text of Ordinance No. 1305 is on file in
State of California ) the City Clerk Department.
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YONNIE PARKER
CITY OF VERNON CITY CLERK PRE#:3889311
4305 SANTA FE AVE INTRODUCTION SUMMARY OF
ORDINANCE NO.1305
VERNON, CA-90058 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of
Vernon Amending Section 13.24.050(definitions)
of Vernon Municipal Code Chapter 13.24(sewer
system)and Adding Section 13.24.101 regarding
responsibility for the sewer system pipes.
Ordinance No. 1305 was introduced by the
Vernon City Council at its regular meeting on
January 21,2025.Second reading and adoption
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
of the ordinance is scheduled for the Regular City
Council Meeting on February 4, 2025, at City
Hall,4305 Santa Fe Avenue,Vernon,California.
The full text of Ordinance No. 1305 is on file in
(2015.5 C.C.P.) the City Clerk Department.
1/23/25
PRE-3889311#
State of California ) HUNTINGTON PARK BULLETIN
County of LOS ANGELES )ss
Notice Type: ORD-ORDINANCE PUBLICATION
Ad Description:
Ordinance 1305-Introduction
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California;I am
over the age of eighteen years,and not a party to or interested in the above
entitled matter.I am the principal clerk of the printer and publisher of the
HUNTINGTON PARK BULLETIN,a newspaper published in the English
language in the city of HUNTINGTON PARK,county of LOS ANGELES,and
adjudged a newspaper of general circulation as defined by the laws of the State
of California by the Superior Court of the County of LOS ANGELES,State of
California,under date 06/14/1943,Case No.485073. That the notice,of which
the annexed is a printed copy,has been published in each regular and entire
issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement thereof on the following
dates,to-wit:
01/23/2025
Executed on:01/23/2025
At Los Angeles,California
I certify (or declare) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Signature
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