9.11.090 Reduction of Pollutants in Urban Runoff.
Any person engaged in activities which will or may result in pollutants entering the City storm drains shall undertake all practicable measures to cease such activities, and/or eliminate or reduce such pollutants. Such activities shall include, but not be limited to, ownership and use of parking lots, gasoline stations, industrial facilities, commercial facilities, construction or other ground disturbing activities, and stores fronting City streets.
A. Littering. Except for pollutants lawfully disposed of by way of containers or at a licensed dumping facility, no person shall throw, deposit, leave, maintain, keep, or permit to be thrown, deposited, placed, left or maintained, any trash, refuse, rubbish, garbage, or other discarded or abandoned objects, articles, and accumulations, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet, catch basin, conduit or other drainage structures, business place, or upon any public or private lot of land or other premises in the City, so that the same might be or become a prohibited nonstormwater discharge.
B. The occupant or tenant of any premises in the City, or in the absence of occupant or tenant, the owner, lessee, or proprietor of any premises, shall maintain any sidewalk in the front of said premises free of dirt or litter to the maximum extent practicable. Any material swept from said sidewalk is prohibited from being disposed of in the gutter or roadway, and shall only be disposed of in receptacles located on the premises as required for the recycling or disposal of garbage or yard waste.
C. Standard for Parking Lots and Similar Structures. Persons owning or operating a parking lot, gas station, area of pavement or similar structure shall clean those structures as frequently and thoroughly as practicable in a manner that does not result in discharge of pollutants to the City storm drain system.
D. Compliance with Stormwater NPDES Permits. Any person performing an activity within the City of Larkspur that requires either a general or individual NPDES permit regulating the discharge of stormwater, as may be adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board or the Regional Water Board, shall obtain and comply with the necessary permit applicable to such discharges.
E. Compliance with Best Management Practices. Any person undertaking an activity or operation that has the potential to generate stormwater and/or nonstormwater pollutants shall comply with any federal, state, or local best management practices, guidelines or requirements applicable to the specific activity or operation in order to reduce and prevent the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, including any requirements as may be identified by the authorized enforcement official. (Ord. 1030 § 2(7), 2018; Ord. 1005 § 2, 2015)