Porta Potty Rental in Atwater, CA 95301

Place the cabin on private ground in Atwater, California with the owner's agreement and no permit normally attaches to the unit itself. Three things in the city's own code are worth knowing, and the first one changes the order.

The first is a real requirement rather than a courtesy. Atwater's code sets conditions on a circus, carnival or similar activity, and one of them names toilets outright. Before any equipment or booth goes up on the site, the applicant must see that the site is properly equipped with toilet conveniences for each sex, and the code adds that more than two toilets may be required depending on the size of the carnival. Two things follow. There is a floor of one facility for each sex whatever the size, and the city keeps the power to ask for more without publishing a table, so the number for a larger carnival is agreed rather than looked up.

The same chapter puts our work into your application file. The permit application has to be accompanied by a plot plan showing the location of all rides, shows, concessions, equipment and toilets. So the cabin positions are part of what the city reviews, not an afterthought on the day. The application also needs a named applicant over 21, a certificate of insurance naming the city as an additional insured, a notarized letter from the property owner, a nonrefundable application fee and, for a nonprofit, proof of tax exempt status. Your account manager can supply the unit count, the positions and the service schedule in the form the city wants.

The second point is the two big downtown dates, where the gatekeeper is not City Hall. During the Fourth of July and during the Fall Festival, selling or offering merchandise for sale on any public street, sidewalk or city park inside the block bounded by Atwater Boulevard, First Street, Grove Avenue and Winton Way is unlawful without express permission. For the Fourth of July that permission comes from the Atwater Fourth of July Committee. For the Fall Festival it comes from the Atwater Chamber of Commerce. The code also says a business or solicitation permit issued for either period carries a copy of that chapter with it.

The street itself is the third point. We read the city's streets, sidewalks and public places title in full, along with its health and safety, public peace, public services, zoning and business licensing titles. The streets chapters cover advertising displays near freeways, city parks, festivals, curb cuts, house numbers, mailboxes, moving buildings, street improvements, trees and the use of city property. None of them sets up a general permit for placing an object in the street. That is not permission, so treat a street or sidewalk spot as needing written clearance from the city, and let your account manager raise it with City Hall on Bellevue Road.

What we can say positively is that nothing in those titles prohibits a chemical toilet. Across the titles we read, the words chemical toilet, portable toilet, portable restroom and privy do not appear at all, so nothing local displaces the state permission described above.