03 - Laserfiche WebLink

Ordinance No. 2019 Page 5 (6) Amend Section 9.14.090 to read as follows: 9.14.90 Watercourse protection. A. Maintenance. Every person owning property through which a watercourse passes, or such person's lessee or tenant, shall keep and maintain that part of the watercourse within the property reasonably free of trash, debris, excessive vegetation and other obstacles which would pollute, contaminate or significantly retard the flow of water through the watercourse; shall maintain existing privately owned structures within or adjacent to a watercourse, so that such structures will not become a hazard to the use, function or physical integrity of the watercourse; and shall not remove healthy bank vegetation beyond that actually necessary for said maintenance, nor remove said vegetation in such a manner as to increase the vulnerability of the watercourse to erosion; and shall ensure that storm drain inlets are marked with "No dumping, drains to bay" and such markings remain legible at all times. B. Prohibited Acts. No person shall commit or cause to be committed any of the following acts, unless a written permit has first been obtained from the operations services director: 1. Discharge into or connect any pipe or channel to a watercourse. 2. Modify the natural flow of water in a watercourse. 3. Carry out development within 30 of the center line of any creek or 20 feet of the top of a bank. 4. Deposit in, plant in or remove any material from a watercourse including its banks, except as required for necessary maintenance. 5. Construct, alter, enlarge, connect to, change or remove any structure in a watercourse. 6. Place any loose or unconsolidated material along the side of or within a watercourse or so close to the side as to cause a diversion of the flow, or to cause a probability of such material being carried away by stormwaters passing through such watercourse. (7) Amend Section 9.14.100 to read as follows: 9.14.100 Authority to inspect. A. Request for Entry. 1. Whenever necessary to make an inspection to enforce any of the provisions of this chapter, or whenever an authorized enforcement official has reasonable cause to believe that there exists in any building or upon any premises any condition which constitutes a violation of the provisions of this chapter, the official may enter such building or premises at all reasonable times to inspect the same or perform any duty imposed upon the official by this chapter; provided, that (a) if such building or premises be occupied, he or she shall first present proper