File #: 2015-0164    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/14/2015 In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: Final action: 5/18/2015
Title: Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An Ordinance to add new Article VI Pipelines to existing Chapter 94, Streets, Sidewalks, and Certain Other Public Places, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to regulate the construction and permitting of pipelines in the City, repeal conflicting or inconsistent Ordinances, and prescribe a penalty for violations
Attachments: 1. 051815 Agenda Summary.pdf, 2. Ordinance (Revised-Clean).pdf, 3. Ordinance (Revised-with markups).pdf, 4. 042015 Agenda Summary.pdf, 5. Ordinance.pdf, 6. Draft Minutes PC 040715.pdf, 7. CC Minutes 040714.pdf, 8. Resolution (Draft) 042015.pdf, 9. Resolution (Draft).pdf
Title
Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An Ordinance to add new Article VI Pipelines to existing Chapter 94, Streets, Sidewalks, and Certain Other Public Places, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to regulate the construction and permitting of pipelines in the City, repeal conflicting or inconsistent Ordinances, and prescribe a penalty for violations
 
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Resolved, that an Ordinance to add new Article VI Pipelines to existing Chapter 94, Streets, Sidewalks, and Certain Other Public Places, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to regulate the construction and permitting of pipelines in the City, repeal conflicting or inconsistent Ordinances, and prescribe a penalty for violations is hereby accepted for Second Reading and Adoption, and shall become effective on Monday, May 25, 2015, the day following its publication in the Oakland Press on Sunday, May 24, 2015, with the following changes:
 
1)  Section 94-200. Definitions - City Regulated Pipelines, the word Pipelines capitalized throughout this section.
 
2)  Definitions - Pipeline, the word Pipeline capitalized throughout this section.
 
3)  Section 94-202 (k) changed to read "A City Regulated Pipeline shall not be located closer than 1,000 feet from a residential dwelling, place of worship, school, child care center or public park.  A City Regulated Pipeline for purposes of this subsection does not include those pipes which are part of the well and regulated by the State of Michigan."
 
4)  Section 94-205 (b) changed to read: "Upon discovery of a Pipeline emergency or incident, any affected Pipeline Operator shall immediately communicate to the 911 system the following information."