The purpose of this chapter and of the receiving station service
fees and charges prescribed under this chapter is to regulate the
discharge of domestic septic tank cleanings, portable toilet wastes,
leach pit and cesspool contents into the receiving station facilities
at the city wastewater control facility and to derive revenue which
shall be used only for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction,
maintenance and operation of the city wastewater control facility
receiving station and sewage treatment plant facilities.
(Prior code § 14-24)
No person shall deliver or discharge domestic septic tank cleanings
into the city wastewater control facility receiving station facilities
approved for such delivery and discharge, unless such person has a
valid and subsisting receiving station use permit ("permit" in this
chapter) issued by the city pursuant to the provision of this chapter.
(Prior code § 14-25)
A. No
person shall be issued a permit under this chapter to use the receiving
station facilities to deliver and discharge domestic septic tank cleanings
unless such person has filed with and furnished to the city's department
of public works the following:
1. An
application on a form provided;
2. The cash or corporate surety bond in the sum of one thousand dollars described in Section
13.24.050;
3. The
insurance policies and/or certificates required by this chapter; and
4. Evidence
of current unrevoked registration with the San Joaquin local health
district under Chapter 6 of Division 20 of the California Health and
Safety Code authorizing such person to engage in the business of disposing
of the cleanings of domestic septic tanks.
B. Upon
receipt thereof, the city's public works department shall issue such
permit to the applicant.
(Prior code § 14-26)
A permit issued under this chapter is personal to the applicant
to whom it is issued and is not subject to transfer or assignment.
(Prior code § 14-27)
A. The
director of public works or his or her authorized deputy may, upon
reasonable notice and hearing, suspend or revoke any permit issued
under this chapter if he or she finds and determines that any person:
1. Has
submitted a permit application that is false in any material respect;
or
2. Has
failed to maintain in full force and effect, the bonds or insurance
required under this chapter; or
3. Has
personally or through an employee or other person engaged to do so,
delivered or discharged any substances other than the cleanings of
domestic septic tanks, etc., into the receiving station facilities
or has delivered or discharged therein any substances prohibited from
discharge into the city's sanitary sewer system under the provisions
of Ordinance No. 435 or this chapter; or
4. Has
disposed of any sanitary sewage or waste in an unlawful manner anywhere
within the service area; or
5. Has
violated any state, county or city law or regulation regarding the
hauling of sanitary sewage, including liquid wastes; or
6. Has
failed to maintain an unrevoked registration for disposition of septic
tank cleanings under California
Health and Safety Code Section 25000
et seq., where required to dispose of such cleanings under this chapter;
7. Has
failed to conform to any provision of the ordinance required to be
complied with by him or her; or
8. Has
failed to pay, before delinquency, any fee or charge due under this
chapter.
B. If
the director determines by reason of emergency circumstances that
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety require
that such permit be suspended immediately and without prior hearing,
he or she may do so; provided, however, that he or she shall make
written finding as to the emergency circumstances which justify such
immediate action and forthwith give to permittee written notice thereof
of the time, not exceeding fifteen days, when the director will conduct
a hearing to determine whether such suspension shall be continued
and/or the permit shall be revoked.
C. Notice
of any proceeding under this chapter shall be served personally upon
the permittee or by registered mail addressed to permittee as may
be known to the director of public works.
(Prior code § 14-41)
A. No
person shall deliver or discharge the cleanings of domestic septic
tanks into the city wastewater control facility receiving station
facilities unless such person maintains in full force and effect a
cash bond or a corporate surety bond in the sum of one thousand dollars
in form approved by the city attorney, conditioned upon the faithful
performance by the permittee under this chapter.
B. The
condition of the bond shall be that the amount thereof shall be paid
to the city if the permittee does any of the following:
1. Delivers
or discharges any substance other than the cleanings of domestic septic
tanks, etc., into the city wastewater control facility receiving station
facilities; or
2. Discharges
therein any of those substances which, by Ordinance No.435 are prohibited
from discharge into the city's sanitary sewer system (referred to
in this chapter as "prohibited substances"); or
3. Dispose
of sewage or wastes in an unlawful manner within the service area
of the receiving station; or
4. Is
delinquent in paying for charges and fees billed by the director of
finance under this chapter; or
5. Otherwise
fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
C. Upon
payment of any sum to city under such bond, the permittee shall immediately
furnish and file with the city such cash surety bonds as may again
equal the total amount of the bond required under this chapter.
D. No
interest shall be paid by the city or permittee on any cash bond deposited.
(Prior code § 14-28)
The remedies providing for satisfaction of this chapter are
cumulative and not exclusive, and are in addition to any other remedies
to which the city may be lawfully entitled. Each person shall remain
personally liable for any obligation or liability incurred in operations
to the extent that bond proceeds are insufficient to satisfy the same.
(Prior code § 14-29)
A. No
person shall deliver or discharge the cleanings of domestic septic
tanks, etc., into the city wastewater control facility receiving station
facilities unless such person, at his or her sole cost and expense,
maintains in full force and effect the following policies:
1. Public
liability and property damage insurance insuring such person against
claims for personal injury and property damage, (including motor vehicle
coverage) which may arise by reason of the nature of the work or from
the operations conducted by such person, his or her officers, employees,
and all other persons engaged to conduct such operations by this chapter.
2. A
separate policy or policies naming the city and their officers and
employees as sole insureds, insuring against all operations conducted
by, for or on behalf of such person, and insuring against the omissions
and supervisory acts of the city, their officers and employees with
respect to the operations; the policy shall provide or contain an
endorsement that the coverage afforded thereby shall be primary coverage
to the full extent of liability stated in the declarations, and that
if the city or its officers or employees have other insurance against
the loss covered by the policy, such other insurance shall be excess
insurance only.
B. Each
such policy shall provide coverage in the following minimum amounts:
for personal injury, including death, one hundred thousand dollars
per person, three hundred thousand dollars for more than one person,
per occurrence; property damage fifty thousand dollars on account
of any one occurrence, with an aggregate limit of not less than two
hundred thousand dollars for any policy year.
C. Each
such policy shall bear an endorsement precluding cancellation or reduction
in coverage unless, not less than ten days prior thereto, written
notice is given by the insurer to the: City Clerk, City Hall, 1001
West Center Street, Manteca, California 95336.
D. The permittee shall cause to be filed with the city clerk a certificate of insurance issued by the insurer evidencing the policy required under subdivision 1 of subsection
A of this section, and the original policy required under subdivision 2 of subsection
A of this section. Not less than ten days prior to the effective date of cancellation, expiration or other termination of each such policy, the permittee shall cause replacement coverage to be filed with the license collector.
E. The
city clerk shall file all certificates and insurance policies received
under this chapter.
(Prior code § 14-30)
A. The
following charges and fees shall be required to be paid for the delivery
and discharge of wastes as set forth in the city wastewater control
facility receiving station facilities: For each load collected and
delivered to the receiving station the charge is four dollars per
thousand gallons or part thereof. Only wastes collected from within
the county of San Joaquin shall be discharged to the receiving station.
B. Said
charges and fees may be changed by city council resolution.
(Prior code § 14-31)
No person shall be permitted to deliver or discharge materials
at the receiving station without delivering to the director of public
works or his or her representatives, prior to such delivery or discharge,
written certification of the source of collection of the material
on a form approved by the director of public works. The source certification
form shall note the date and time of collection, the city and street
address of the property from which the materials were collected, and
shall bear the signature of the owner or occupant of the property.
(Prior code § 14-32)
No person shall deliver or discharge into the receiving station
any industrial waste nor any substances whose discharge into the city's
sanitary sewer system is prohibited under Ordinance No. 435 notwithstanding
that they may constitute the cleaning of domestic septic tanks, etc.
(Prior code § 14-33)
No person shall deliver or discharge into the receiving station
facilities any sludge or solids of sewage treatment plants or water
treatment plants from within or from outside the county of San Joaquin.
(Prior code § 14-34)
A. The
city shall have the right by and through its officers, employees or
other persons engaged by the city to do so, to take such samples of
materials delivered by any person into the receiving station facilities
as the city in its sole discretion may deem appropriate to obtain
a representation sample of each delivery's contents. Such sample may
be taken prior to, during, or after any such delivery and discharge.
Without being limited thereto, results of analysis made of such samples
at the city wastewater control facility laboratory may be used to
determine permittee's conformance with the requirements of this chapter.
By acceptance of the permit issued hereunder, the permittee consents
and agrees that any such samples may be so taken and used.
B. In
the event the city determines that any such delivery contains substances
not permitted to be delivered or discharged under this chapter, the
permittee shall forthwith comply with the city's order or direction
that they not be so delivered or discharged.
(Prior code § 14-35)
A record of deliveries of the cleanings of domestic septic tanks,
etc. shall be made at the time of each delivery to the receiving station
and shall be signed by or on behalf of the permittee. Within fifteen
days after the close of each calendar month, the director of finance
shall prepare and mail an invoice to each permittee for fees and charges
incurred by such permittee during such calendar month.
(Prior code § 14-36)
Fees and charges for the cleanings of domestic septic tanks,
etc., delivered and discharged into the receiving station facilities
shall be paid by the permittee at the office of the director of finance,
City Hall, Manteca, California or at such other place as the director
may provide. Such fees and charges are immediately due and payable
upon the deposit of an invoice therefor in the United States mail;
they are delinquent if payment is not received by the director of
finance on or before the fortieth day immediately following the date
when due and payable.
(Prior code § 14-37)
The director of public works is authorized to adopt rules, regulations
and procedures relating to the operation of the receiving station,
to establish a schedule of service and to provide a safe, efficient
and sanitary use of the receiving station facilities and to implement
the provisions of this chapter. The director may deny or suspend the
use of receiving station facilities to any person who fails to comply
with such rules, regulations and procedures.
(Prior code § 14-38)
It is unlawful for any person to not comply with any written
rule, regulation or procedure adopted by the director of public works
pursuant to this chapter which relates to the delivery or discharge
of wastes into receiving station facilities of the city wastewater
control facility.
(Prior code § 14-39)
Access to and use of receiving station facilities shall be granted
only to vehicles bearing, in four-inch-high letters on both sides
of the hauling vehicle, the name and address of the holder of a permit
issued under this chapter and the vehicle load capacity. A copy of
the city receiving station use permit as provided by the city must
accompany the truck.
(Prior code § 14-40)
After any hearing required under this chapter, the director
of public works shall make a written decision setting forth his or
her findings and his or her action thereon. A copy of the decision
shall be served upon permittee in the manner provided for notice of
hearings; the decision is final in ten days after service.
(Prior code § 14-42)