HomeMy WebLinkAbout4_~is is to certify that the within is a true and
correct copy of Ordinance No. of the
City of Saratoga passed and adopted on the
been posted pursuant to law.
Dated this ~J~JdayI of ~ ~~ 19j~
Acting City Clerk
0RDIN~CE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA ADOPTING BY REFERENCE
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF TITLES 5, ~,7, 8, 9 lOand ll OF THE
SANTA CLARA CO~TY ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO BUSINESS, TRADES,
AND PROFESSIONS, PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC V~ELFARE, STREETS, HIGH-
WAYSAND PARKS, FRANCHISES, VEHICLES ~D TRAFFIC, AND BUILDING
REGULATIONS, SAID TITLES ~ to 11~ IN TURN INCORPORATING BY
REFERenCE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE 1955UNIFORMPLU~ING CODE,
1952 UNIF0~ BUILDING CODE, AND ~953 NATIONAL ELECTICAL CODE,
AND DECLARING THIS TO BE AN E~E~G~CY ORDINANCE.
The City Council of the City of Saratoga does ordain as
follows:
SECTION l:
Sec. 1.1 - All the Chapters ahd Articles of Title
all the Article~ of Chapters 2 and 3 of
Title 6, all the Chapters and Articles of Title 7, all the
Chapters and Articles of Title 8, all the Chapters and Articles
of Title 9, all the Chapters andzArticles of Title lO, and with
the exception of ll.l.l-l.2 ~. ll.l.l-6, ll.l.l-7, and ll.l.l~
of Article i Chapter 1,'of ~itie ll, all the Chapters and
Articles of ~itle ll, all as amended to date hereof, of the
Santa Clara County Ordinance Cod~ are hereby adopted by reference
as laws of the City of Saratoga.
Sec. 1.2 - Three copies oft said Santa Clara County Ordinance
Code, together With amendments thereto, three
copies of the 195~ Uniform Plmabing Code,' ~hree copies of the 1952
Uniform Building Code, and three~ copies of the 1953 National
Electrical Code, the latter three cod~s~being hereafter referred
to as secondary codes, are presently on file with the City Clerk
of the City of Saratoga.
Sec. 1.3 - All of the Titles, Chapters and Articles of the
Santa Clara County Ordinance Code hereinabove
adopted by reference shall hereafter be collectively called
"Partial County~Code".
'Sec. 1.4.- The City Council shall act as a BOard of Appeals
in the Building~ Plumbing, Electrical and Gas
Appliance trades.~ It shallreview the decisions of the Building
Inspector on the Building, Plumbing and Electrical Codes and
Chapter 2 of.Title ll on Gas Appliances, either upon his request
or upon written appeal from any aggrieved person filed with the
City Clerk within five (5) days of his decision. It shall have
power to determine the suitability ~f*~lternate materials and
types of construction and to provide reasonable interpretations of
the provisions of said respective~o~eS and gas appliance regula-
tions, and its decision shall be binding on the Building Inspector+·
Time of hearings and rules and regulations of procedure may here-
after be set forth by resolutionZof the City Council
SECTION 2:
Sec. 2.1 - All references in ~ne Partial County Code
to Board of Supervisors County Board of
Supervisors, or Board of SuperviSors of ~anta Clara County, shall
mean the City Council of the City of Saratoga; all references
to County, both as to area and~l~gal entity, shall mean City of
Saratoga; all references to County Controller shall mean City
Treasurer; all references to Fire ~arshall and Sheriff shall
meanChief of Police of the Citylof Saratoga; all references
to License ~llector shall mean the City License Collector; all
references to Health Officer shall mean the City Health Officer
of the City of Saratoga; all references to the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors shall mean the City Clerk of the City of
Saratoga; all references to theeDistrict Attorney shall mean the
City Attorney of the City of Saratoga; all references to County
Park shall mean City Park; all references to Director of
Central Services shall mean Chief of Police of the City of Saratoga;.
all references .to County Enginee~ shall mean City Engineer of ~e
City of Saratoga; all references to County Building Inspection
Director,C~uh~y Building InspectOr.or Building Inspectorishall
mean the Building Inspector of the City of Saratoga; all refer-
ences to any building or structure in the County shall mean any
building or structure in theeCityI of Saratoga; all references
to County Executive shall mean ~he City Council of the City of
Saratoga. ~
Sec. 2.2 - In interpreting any of the provisions of the
Partial. County Code and this Ordinance,
shohld any ambiguity arise concerning whether the d ~signation
of a particular officer, office~ior body means a County officer,
office or body or a city officer, office or body~ then such am-
biguity shall be resolved in Savor of a city officer, office or
body.
SECTION 5:
Set. ~.l - The Building Inspector Director of the County
of Santa Clara is hereby appointed the
Officio Building Inspector of the City of Saratoga and is authorized
and directed to enforce all theeprovisions of Title ll of said
Partial County Code as adopted herein by reference.
Sec. B. 2 - The County Engineer of the County of Santa
Clara is he~e~y appointed the ExtG~iSiO~'City
Engineer of the City of Saratoga.
Sec. 8.~ - The Health Officer of the County of Santa
Clara is hereby appointed the Ex Officio
City Health Officer of the City of Saratoga.
SECTION ~:
Sec. ~.l - The term "person", except as may otherwise
be provided,'as used in this Ordinance and
in the Partial County Code shall mean any natural person, ~ny
firm, corporation~ co-partnership, club or any association or
combination of naiural persons ,whether acting by themselves ~
through any servant, agent or employee.
Sec. 4.2. Whenever a power is granted to,or a duty
is imposed upon~a public officer the power
may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of
such officer or by a person ot~er~vise duly authorized pursuant
to law unless expressly Otherwi~se provided.
SECTION 5:
sec. 5.1 - Any person who violates any of the provisions
of this Ordinance or of t he Partial County
Code adopted herein by reference or of any of the secondary codes
adopted into said Partial Primary Code by reference, or fails
to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this Ordinance
and said codes, shall be guiltyof a misdemeanor. Any person
convicted of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this 0r~inance
shall be punishable by a fine o~ not more than Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County ~ail for a*
period not exceeding Six (6) months or by both such fine and
imprisonment. Except as otherwise provided, each such person
shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day
during any portion of of which any violation of ahy.zprovision of
this Ordinance, the Partial County Code adopted herein or the
secondary codes adopted by refeDence in said partial primary code
is committed or permitted by such person and shall be punishable
accordingly.
SECTION 6:
Sec. 6.1 - If any section~ sub-section, sentence, clause~
or phrase ok this Ordinance, the Partial
County Code adopted hereby~ or the secondary codes adopted by
reference herein, is or are for any reason held by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not
effect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance~
said primary code or said secondary code~ The City Council
of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it would have passed
this Ordinance and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause
and phrase hereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections~ sub-sections, sentence's~ clauses or phrases be held
invalid.
SECTION 7; This Ordinance is declared to be an urgency
and emergency measure and shall take effect
immediately upon its passage, it being for the immediate pro-
tection land preservation of the public health, peace, safety and
wet~are of the City of Saratoga,~ based on the following state-
ment of facts: Said City is a recently incorporated general
law city located in the County of Santa Clara, State of California;
as such it has no regulations cohcerning business, trades,
professions, public welfare, streets, highways, parks, public
Safety, franchises, vehicles, traffic and building regulations;
and it is essential that laws, rules and regulations concerning
the same and generally in line with laws, rules and regulations
previously existing under and byevirtue of the jurisdiction of
the County of Santa Clara be immediately imposed upon said area
in order to orderly continue theeexisting public peace, health
and safety in said area.
This Ordinance was regularly introduced and after the wait-
ing time required by law was thereafter passed and adopted
this ~,~4~. day of _~_~=~, 1956, by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Brazil, Jepsen, Lan~will, Rosasee, Willjams
NOES: ~o ne
ABSENT~ None
The above and foregoing is a true ,: .:(f correct
COpy of Ordinance wi~ich h~ b¢~
published according Io law.
ATTEST:
· ~puty City Clerk Date
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