Porta Potty Rental in Boulder, CO 80304

Boulder has no portable restroom permit, and we can say that with some confidence because we went looking properly. The useful answer is about which of its existing instruments reaches a placed unit, and the scope language does the deciding.

On private ground, serving your own project, normally nothing is needed. No Boulder provision requires a permit for a unit standing on your own lot for your own work. That is the common case and it is the straightforward one.

On public ground, the encroachment chapter is the instrument. Boulder defines an encroachment as a private improvement, structure or obstruction extending into or located within, upon, above or under any public right-of-way or public easement, and then provides that no person shall erect or maintain any building, structure, fence, barrier, post, landscaping, obstruction or other encroachment within, under, above or upon any public right-of-way, path, alley or public easement without first obtaining permission from the City.

Read the scope noun carefully, because it cuts two ways. The chapter's own definition of a structure requires a fixed location, and a unit set down for two weeks and taken away again is arguably not that. But the definition of an encroachment also covers an obstruction and a private improvement merely located within the right-of-way, and a restroom unit standing on a Boulder sidewalk or alley plausibly falls inside those words. We are not going to claim the code names portable toilets, because it does not. The practical course is that written permission from the City is the route for public ground, and it should be in hand before the delivery.

The consequence of getting that wrong is named in the code. Boulder provides that an encroachment placed or maintained in the public right-of-way contrary to the chapter constitutes a public nuisance, which the City or even a resident may act to have removed or abated. That is a stronger consequence than a fee, and it is a good reason to settle the permission first.

One Boulder permit that does not apply, which is worth knowing. The city's street, sidewalk and public property use permit sounds like the obvious instrument and is not. Its own scope is placing merchandise or other things upon public property for sale or for the solicitation of orders. A restroom unit is not placed for sale, so that permit is not the one you need, and nobody should be sent to apply for it.

The county above the city licenses the haulers, and it reaches the city. Boulder County licenses all hauling companies operating in the county that collect, transport or dispose of discarded materials. The scope detail is the interesting part and it runs the opposite way to the usual county pattern: it is the county's service requirements, not its licensing requirement, that are confined to the unincorporated area, so the licensing duty reaches the incorporated county seat rather than stopping at the city line. The city of Boulder is named on the county's own reporting list. It costs fifty dollars a year for up to three vehicles and ten dollars per vehicle beyond that, and it binds the servicing company rather than you.

And the wastewater layer belongs to the county too. The state health department's on-site wastewater page explains that on-site systems, which it calls septic systems, are governed by Regulation 43, that permitting for flows of two thousand gallons a day or less is carried out by local counties, and that every local public health agency in Colorado has adopted rules at least as stringent as the state regulation. The regulation text itself was not obtainable at source, so no claim is made here about how the state classifies the contents of a portable unit.

Your account manager will settle the public ground question and the servicing arrangement before anything is placed.