Ordinance amending the Health Code to regulate cross-connection and backflow prevention requirements to protect the public water system by replacing obsolete requirements with requirements consistent with current state and federal drinking water quality laws; by reorganizing, updating, and clarifying procedures for implementing such requirements; and by authorizing remedies and penalties for violations and providing enforcement criteria and procedures; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Requested by

Public Utilities Commission

Introduced

April 5, 2016

On agenda

April 5, 2016

Passed

June 17, 2016

Enacted

June 17, 2016

Enactment no.

100-16