City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2017-1614

• File #: 2017-1614
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 6/9/2017
• In control: Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
• On agenda: 7/19/2017
• Final action: 7/25/2017
• Enactment date: 7/25/2017
• Enactment #: 37
• Effective date: 1/1/2018
• Title: Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Ten, by adding a new Chapter 1005, entitled "Mandatory Testing of Lead Service Lines Plumbing" to reveal lead hazards, including lead service lines, and to require disclosure to lessees under certain terms and conditions, and granting authority to the City Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections to enforce this Chapter:
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 10 - BUILDING CODE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/27/2017	3	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
7/25/2017	3	City Council	Waived under the Rules of Council	Pass
7/25/2017	3	City Council	AMENDED	Pass
7/25/2017	3	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
7/25/2017	3	City Council	AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE	Pass
7/19/2017	2	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
7/19/2017	2	Standing Committee	AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE	Pass
7/6/2017	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
6/28/2017	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
6/21/2017	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
6/13/2017	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Ten, by adding a new Chapter 1005, entitled "Mandatory Testing of Lead Service Lines Plumbing" to reveal lead hazards, including lead service lines, and to require disclosure to lessees under certain terms and conditions, and granting authority to the City Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections to enforce this Chapter:

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WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania Legislature has explicitly vested in the City of Pittsburgh the power to make regulations to secure the general health of its inhabitants; and

WHEREAS, the City's Home Rule Charter ? 222 proclaims that "[a] responsible city is one which expects aggressive action from its officials toward the achievement of . . . pure air and water . . . and the other conditions conducive to human growth," and the City of Pittsburgh Bill of Rights, City Home Rule Charter ? 104, acknowledges that residents have a fundamental "Right to Water;" and

WHEREAS, the City may regulate activities relating to the International Plumbing Code, a section of the International Building Code, which is explicitly incorporated into Title Ten of the City of Pittsburgh Code, Chapter 1002 ("Uniform Construction Code Adoption") at ?1002.01(5) ;and

WHEREAS, Lead water service lines can cause drinking water to become contaminated; and

WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, which operates the City's water system and is a water service provider, found elevated levels of lead in drinking water in some City homes; and

WHEREAS, City inhabitants deserve to know about the presence of environmental hazards, including the presence of lead water service lines on properties they own so they may decide how to take appropriate health precautions and to value their residential property; and one reasonable way to do so is to collect data when a property owner is contemplating selling or leasing the property, a time when the expense of testing and/or remediation might more easily be ...