City of Escondido, CA
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2024-05-08
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Code of Ordinances
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Chapter 31 Water
- Code of Ordinances
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 1A Administrative Remedies
- Ch 2 Administration
- Ch 3 Ambulances, Convalescent Service Vehicles and Wheelchair Buses
- Ch 4 Animal Control
- Ch 5 Bicycles and Nonmotorized Vehicles
- Ch 6 Buildings and Building Regulations
- Ch 6A Burglary, Robbery, Fire Alarm Systems
- Ch 7 Local Emergency
- Ch 8 Cable Communications Franchises
- Ch 9 (Reserved)
- Ch 10 Finance
- Ch 11 Fire Prevention and Protection
- Ch 12 Food and Food Handlers
- Ch 12A (Reserved)
- Ch 13 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Solid Waste and Recycling
- Ch 15 Junkyards and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 16 Licenses and Business Regulations Generally
- Ch 16A Massage Regulation
- Ch 16B Regulation of the Storage and Disposal of Medical Wastes
- Ch 16C (Reserved)
- Ch 16D Guest Registration Requirements for Transient Lodging Facilities
- Ch 16E Adult Businesses and Adult Business Performers
- Ch 16F (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Offenses—Miscellaneous Provisions
- Ch 18 Community Services Department
- Ch 19 Personnel
- Ch 20 Planning Commission
- Ch 21 Street Patrols
- Ch 22 Wastewaters, Stormwaters, and Related Matters
- Ch 22A Smoking Regulations
- Ch 23 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 24 Subdivisions (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Taxation
- Ch 26 Taxicabs and Automobiles for Hire
- Ch 27 Towing Services
- Ch 28 Traffic
- Ch 29 Trailer Coaches and Trailer Parks
- Ch 30 Underground Utilities
- Ch 31 Water
- Art 31-1 IN GENERAL
- § 31-1 Definitions.
- § 31-2 Cutoff of water supply—Conditions—Turn-on prerequisites.
- § 31-3 Access to consumer's premises for enforcement purposes.
- § 31-4 City's liability for interrupting water supply.
- § 31-5 City's liability for water damage.
- § 31-6 Reservation of right to shut off water in mains.
- § 31-7 Application for service required; applicant considered consumer.
- § 31-8 Conditions to granting application, furnishing water.
- § 31-9 (Reserved)
- § 31-10 Disposition of deposits.
- § 31-11 Connection charges for consumers in city.
- § 31-12 Connection charge credits.
- § 31-13 Extension of mains to provide service; deposit required.
- § 31-14 Contract in lieu of deposit to cover water extensions.
- § 31-15 Refund to consumer requesting original extension.
- § 31-16 Authority to change meter rates.
- § 31-17 Clerk to certify, publish resolution changing meter rates.
- § 31-18 Allowances, rebates in rates charged.
- § 31-19 Late payment charge.
- § 31-20 Discontinuance for nonpayment.
- § 31-21 Payment of delinquencies prerequisite to restoring service.
- § 31-22 Reinstatement fee.
- § 31-23 Monthly rates.
- § 31-24 Primary water service charge.
- § 31-25 Additional water availability charge.
- § 31-26 Meter rates for fire protection facilities.
- § 31-27 Charge for consumption when meter not registering.
- § 31-28 Minimum service charge to be made upon noncontinuous use of water.
- § 31-29 Full rates to be charged pending notice to discontinue service.
- § 31-30 Creation of water department fund; segregation of funds.
- § 31-31 Ownership of meters, pipes; city's maintenance responsibility.
- § 31-32 Consumer's responsibility to maintain meters.
- § 31-33 Consumer's duty to maintain service pipes, etc.
- § 31-34 Consumer to provide stopcock.
- § 31-35 City to supply stopcock.
- § 31-36 Use of meters required.
- § 31-37 Location of meter.
- § 31-38 Right to have meter tested.
- § 31-39 Application for meter test; deposit required.
- § 31-40 Duty to test meter.
- § 31-41 Frequency of meter tests.
- § 31-42 Replacement of defective meter, reimbursement of testing fee.
- § 31-43 Time for reading meters.
- § 31-44 Copy of meter reading to appear on bill.
- § 31-45 Taking water from fire protection facilities; penalty.
- § 31-46 Supplying water to person whose water turned off.
- § 31-47 Use of water during fire alarms.
- § 31-48 Obstruction of access to meters, hydrants, stopcocks.
- § 31-49 (Repealed)
- § 31-50 Adoption of county water and water supply regulations.
- § 31-51 Surcharges prohibited; regulation by city council.
- § 31-52 Violation; penalty.
- § 31-53 through § 31-59. (Reserved)
- Art 31-2 CLERK OF WATER DEPARTMENT
- § 31-60 Office created.
- § 31-61 Eligibility of director of finance to hold office.
- § 31-62 To perform duties prescribed by council.
- § 31-63 Duty to receive moneys, issue receipts for moneys received.
- § 31-64 Duty to maintain records of receipts for moneys received; destruction of records.
- § 31-65 To maintain records of receipts, disbursements of water department.
- § 31-66 Duty to pay over moneys collected.
- § 31-67 through § 31-99. (Reserved)
- Art 31-3 WATER WELLS
- § 31-100 Purpose and intent.
- § 31-101 Definitions.
- § 31-102 State reporting.
- § 31-103 General standards.
- § 31-104 Standards for water wells.
- § 31-105 Standards for cathodic protection wells.
- § 31-106 Nuisances—Investigation.
- § 31-107 Same—Order to abate.
- § 31-108 Same—Appeal from order of abatement.
- § 31-109 Same—Abatement by county health officer.
- § 31-110 Payment of costs.
- § 31-111 Penalties.
- § 31-112 Construction, repair, reconstruction and destruction of wells; acts prohibited.
- § 31-113 Permits.
- § 31-114 Persons authorized to perform work.
- § 31-115 Inspections.
- § 31-116 Expiration of permit.
- § 31-117 Extension of permit.
- § 31-118 Revocation or suspension.
- § 31-119 Log of well.
- § 31-120 through § 31-199. (Reserved)
- Art 31-4 CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL REGULATIONS
- § 31-200 Generally.
- § 31-201 Definition of terms.
- § 31-202 Responsibility.
- § 31-203 Implementation.
- § 31-204 through § 31-224. (Reserved)
- Art 31-5 WATER CONSERVATION PLAN
- § 31-225 Scope.
- § 31-226 Objectives.
- § 31-227 Definitions.
- § 31-228 Exemptions and applications.
- § 31-229 Authorization for exceptions.
- § 31-230 Water use restrictions and measures (at all times).
- § 31-231 (Reserved)
- § 31-232 Water shortage response levels.
- § 31-233 Sudden catastrophic water supply shortage.
- § 31-234 Notification.
- § 31-235 Enforcement, civil and criminal penalties.
- § 31-236 Surcharges; Additional charges.
- § 31-237 Variance for hardship or pending appeal.
- § 31-238 through § 31-249. (Reserved)
- Art 31-6 WATER RECLAMATION PLAN
- § 31-250 Findings.
- § 31-251 Water reclamation policy.
- § 31-252 Definitions.
- § 31-253 Water reclamation master plan.
- § 31-254 Procedures.
- § 31-255 Regulation of waste discharge to sewerage systems.
- § 31-256 Sanctions.
- § 31-257 Validity.
- § 31-258 Separability.
- Statutory References
- Ch SR Statutory References for California Cities
- Tables
- Ch CCT Code Comparative Table
- Ch CTO Comparative Table - Ordinances
- Subdivisions and Zoning Code
- Ch 32 Subdivisions
- Ch 33 Zoning
- Ch OL Zoning Code Ordinance List and Disposition Table
Editor's note—The Constitution of the State of California
empowers municipal corporations to establish public works for supplying
its inhabitants with water and to establish water rates, Const. Art.
11, § 19, Art. 14, § 1.
Cross references—Plumbing, § 6-271 et
seq.; director of finance responsible for accounting functions of
water department and collections from water consumers' accounts, § 10-30;
charges for the collection of garbage and rubbish may be entered on
water bills and paid at the same time and place, § 14-58;
sewers, sewage disposal and drains, Ch. 22; water supply facilities
required in trailer parks for fire department operations, § 29-39.
