San Bruno Point-of-Sale Takes Effect May 8, 2015

Effective May 8, 2015, the City of San Bruno will begin enforcement of a point-of-sale requirement for sewer lateral inspections. As with other point-of-sale mandates for sewer lateral inspections in San Mateo County, this is as a result of litigation by Baykeeper.

You are exempt from the ordinance if:

1. The property is in escrow; OR
2. The property has been listed on the MLS, OR
3. The residential property was originally constructed less than fifty (50) years ago.

Other exemptions include:

1. Condominium or cooperative apartment buildings or the units within those buildings, except as a condition to conversion to a condominium or cooperative apartment building;
2. Properties that share a sanitary sewer lateral with another property;
3. Property transfers that do not involve the payment of a County transfer tax;
4. Properties for five (5) years after issuance of a certificate of compliance by this City under this chapter;
5. Properties for five (5) years after acceptance of a test pursuant to this chapter, if partial or no repairs of the lateral were required and any repairs were completed pursuant to permit and inspection by the City;
6. For five (5) years after inspection and approval by the city of completed alterations to the lateral, if alterations pursuant to a City permit were made to the location of or connections to the lateral following a test pursuant to this section;
7. Properties for twenty (20) years after City acceptance of construction work, provided that replacement of the complete sewer lateral was performed and accepted.