ORDINANCE NO. 1973
AN ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, TO AMEND CHAPTER 13 - PUBLIC SERVICES.
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create a Department of Building, Permitting and Inspection and a Department of Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance by splitting the functions currently assigned to the Department of Building, Housing and Zoning; and
WHEREAS, the Salisbury City Council intends to amend the appropriate Sections of the City Code to reflect the reassignment of duties and authority to each department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, in regular session, that Chapter 13 is hereby amended as follows:
CHAPTER
13.04
GENERAL
PROVISIONS - SERVICE CHARGES
Section
13.04.010 Application for sewer service - Approval or disapproval.
Application
for sewer service shall be made, on prescribed forms furnished by the
department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and inspections
by the property owner or his duly authorized agent. If the director of the department of
building, housing and zoning is satisfied that the request described in an
application conforms to the requirements of this chapter and other pertinent
laws and ordinances, he shall approve the application. Should the application not conform to the
requirements of this chapter and other pertinent laws and ordinances, the
director of the department of building, housing and zoning, permitting
and inspections shall disapprove
such application. Such refusal shall,
when requested, be in writing and will contain the reasons therefor. (Prior code § 132-5)
Section
13.04.030 Inspections - Penalty for refusal to permit inspection.
All
properties connected with the sanitary sewer system of the city may be
inspected from time to time by employees of the department of building, housing
and zoning, permitting and inspections and the department of public
works* or other agency of the city for purpose of checking the amount and nature
of the effluent being discharged into the sanitary sewer system. Any person who shall refuse to permit an
inspection of any such property for the purposed aforesaid shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof by the Circuit Court for the county,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor
more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment for not less then
ten days nor more than thirty (30) days.
(Prior code § 132-7)
Section
13.04.040 Discontinuance of service - Notice disconnection.
Should
any property owner or occupant of property connected with the city sanitary
sewer system refuse to permit an inspection of such property for the purposes
outlined in Section 13.04.030, then such property shall be disconnected from
the sanitary sewer system and shall not be reconnected thereto until the
inspection of the property has been completed and the cost of such
disconnection and reconnection is paid to the city. Before disconnecting any property under the
provisions hereof, the director of the department of building, housing and
zoning, permitting and inspections shall give five days’ notice by
letter addressed to the person refusing to permit such inspection notifying
such person that sewer service shall be discontinued unless the inspection
provided for herein is permitted. (Prior
code § 132-8)
Section
13.04.060 Computation of sewer charges.
3. Any properties now connected to the city’s
sanitary sewer that, in the
opinion of the director of the
department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and
inspections, have a flow of one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons per year
or greater will have until January 1, 1973, to install and place in service the
measuring device. Any existing, operating
device and its installation shall be upgraded to meet city standards by January
1, 1973.
C. For residential properties located outside
the corporate limits but not
using city water and not measuring
the amount of effluent discharged into the sanitary sewer system by means of a
sewage flow meter or other measuring device approved by the city, the sewer
charge shall be computed by determining the number and kind of water fixtures
located in such property and charging for the same an annual amount equal to
two hundred (200) percent of those set
forth for properties located in the corporate limits in the tabulation of
subsection (B) of this section. Any
property located outside the corporate limits required by the director of the
department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and
inspections to have a measuring device installed under authority of
subsection (B) of this section shall pay an amount equal to two hundred (200)
percent of the rates for properties located in the corporate limits, except
county urban service district sanitary sewer, which shall pay the stipulated
rate for that particular district.
CHAPTER
13.08
WATER
Section
13.08.020 Application for water service - Approval or disapproval.
Application
for water service shall be made on prescribed forms furnished by the department
of building, housing and zoning, permitting and inspections by
the property owner or his duly authorized agent. If the director of the department of
building, housing and zoning, permitting and inspections is satisfied
that the request described in an application conforms to the requirements of
this chapter and other pertinent laws and ordinances, he shall approve the
application. Should the application not
conform to the requirements of this chapter and other pertinent laws and
ordinances, the director of the department of building, housing and zoning,
permitting and inspections shall disapprove such application. Such refusal shall, when requested, be in
writing and will contain the reasons therefor. (Prior code § 132-24)
Section
13.08.050 Installation of fire service connections.
Sprinkler
or fire service connections shall be constructed by the city from the street
main to a point in the public sidewalk area at the property owner’s request and
expense, such cost to be determined by the city engineer. No fire service connection shall be installed
without the submission of plans and the approval thereof by the director of the
department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and
inspections and the city engineer.
(Prior code § 132-27)
Section
13.08.100 Refusal to permit inspections.
Should
any property owner or occupant of property connect with the water supply system
connect with the water supply system of the city refuse to permit an inspection
of such property, then such property shall be disconnected from the water
supply system of the city and shall not be reconnected thereto until the
inspection of the property has been completed and a reconnection fee of
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) is paid to the city. Before disconnecting any property under the
provisions hereof, the director of the department of building, housing and
zoning permitting and inspections shall give five days’ written
notice by letter addressed to the person refusing to permit such inspection,
notifying such person that water service shall be discontinued unless the
inspection provided for herein is permitted.
Section
13.08.110 Inspections authorized - Records - Penalty for refusal to permit
inspection.
All
properties connected with the water supply system of the city may be inspected
from time to time by the director of the department of building, housing and
zoning, permitting and inspections or his authorized
representative. Complete records of the
inspections provided for herein shall be compiled and maintained by the
department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and
inspections. An owner or occupant of
a property connected with the water supply system of the city who shall refuse
to permit an inspection of any such property shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction thereof by the trial magistrate of the county of the
circuit court for the county, shall be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by
imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than thirty (30) days. (Prior code § 132-33)
CHAPTER
13.20
PRIVATE
WATER SYSTEMS
Section
13.20.020
D.
The approving authority for individual water systems shall be the
director of building, housing and
zoning, permitting and inspections.
F. Any person contemplating the construction of
a private well for
domestic use, outside irrigation
purposes, refrigeration cooling purposes or the filling of swimming pools
shall, previous to the beginning of any construction, make a formal
application. The permit fee shall be
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each well.
Application for such permit, except wells referred to in subsection ©)
of this section, shall be in a form provided by the bureau of inspections
department of building, permitting and inspections. Whenever, in the opinion of the direction of
the department of building, housing and zoning, permitting and
inspections. Complete plans and
specifications are need to show definitely the desired installation for which
the application is made, the applicant shall furnish duplicate. If approved, one set shall be returned to the
applicant marked approved, and one set shall be retained and filed as a
permanent record in the office of the department of building, housing and
zoning, permitting and inspections. (Prior code § 132-42)
AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, that the amendment set forth in this Ordinance shall take effect from and after the date of its final passage.
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE was introduced at a meeting of the Council on the 28th day of November, 2005, and having been published as required by law, in the meantime, was finally passed at its meeting on the ____ day of December, 2005.
__________________________ ____________________________________
Brenda J. Colegrove Michael
P. Dunn,
City Clerk President
of the City Council
of
the City of Salisbury
Approved by me this
day of 2005.
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Barrie P. Tilghman, Mayor of the City of Salisbury