Ordinance No. 5,805Published In: THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, March 19, 1991 910314 -4
Wednesday, March 20, 1991
ORDINANCE NO. 5805
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 13, "FOOD AND FOOD
ESTABLISHMENT'S" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PRESCRIBING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF TWO THOUSAND AND NO 1100
($2,000.00) DOLLARS FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That Chapter 13, "Food and Food Establishments"
of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby
amended by adding Section 13 -11.1 to read as follows:
Sec. 13 -11.1 Grease Traps
(a) Construction Requirements
(1) Every commercial food preparation and food service
establishment including, but not limited to,
abattoirs, bakeries, boarding houses, butcher
shops, cafes, club houses, delicatessens, ice
cream parlors, hospitals, hotels, restaurants,
schools, or similar places where meat, poultry,
seafood, dairy products, or fried foods are
prepared or served, shall discharge all wastes
from sinks, dishwashers and drains into an
approved and properly maintained and functioning
grease trap before entering the sanitary sewer
drain.
(2) No food grinders, garbage disposers, or frying
vats shall discharge into a grease trap.
(3) The grease retaining capacity of each grease trap
in pounds of grease shall be equal to twice the
rate of flow capacity in gallons per minute of
waste water to remove and retain ninety percent
(90 %) of the grease discharged.
Manufactured grease traps shall be selected to fit the
flow rate requirements of the connected fixtures from
the manufacturer's rating schedule, but not to exceed a
capacity of twenty (20) gallons. Concrete grease traps
shall be sized as follows:
up to 7 gpm -18" x 18" x 24" deep. For each additional
gpm flow rate, size shall be increased by 1 cubic foot.
(4) When maximum efficiency grease removal is
necessary, a dual chambered trap that separates,
then stores grease shall be utilized. The primary
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compartment shall hold seven times the maximum
gallons -per- minute flow rate and the secondary
shall hold five times this flow rate.
(5) The grease trap shall be easily accessible for
cleaning and installed as close as possible to the
grease source and equipped with a sample well for
ease in sampling unless the construction of such
trap makes the sample well unnecessary.
(b) Maintenance Requirements
(1) All commercial food preparation and food service
establishment operators shall cause the grease
trap to be completely cleaned when full. Every
grease trap shall be completely cleaned not less
than once every three months.
(2) Operators shall post trip invoices with their food
service establishment permit. The trip invoices
shall contain the name and address of the food
service establishment, the name and address of the
licensed waste carrier, the name and address of
the licensed disposal site, the signature of the
operator of each of the above, and the quantity
and date of grease removal and disposal.
(c) Effect of this Section
(1) The maintenance requirements of this section shall
apply to all commercial food preparation and food
service establishments which are currently
equipped with some type of grease trap.
(2) Both the construction and maintenance requirements
of this section shall apply to all new
construction, changes in permit ownership, or
changes in occupancy.
Section 2: That Chapter 13, "Food and Food
Establishments" of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended by amending Section 13 -37 to read as
follows:
Sec. 13 -37 Penalty
An offense under this Chapter governs public
health and sanitation and is a misdemeanor and
punishable by a fine not to exceed TWO THOUSAND
AND N01100 ($2,000.00) DOLLARS.
Section 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
e'' inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the
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extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this
ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and
governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 4: If any provisions, section, exception,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of
the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application
to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 5: Any person who shall violate any provision of
this ordinance which governs public health and sanitation, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed TWO THOUSAND AND N01100
($2,000.00) DOLLARS.
Section 6: This ordinance shall take effect from and after
ten (10) days from its passage by the City Council. The City
Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing the
caption of this ordinance to be published in the official
newspaper of the City of Baytown at least twice within ten (10)
days after passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 14th day of March,
1991.
ATTEST:
ETT 0. HUTTO , y
Mayor
EILEEN PGLL, City Clerk
McLEMORE, Assistant City Attorney
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