Porta Potty Rental in Murrieta, CA 92562

A unit on your own property needs no city permit in Murrieta. Public property is a different matter, and California adds a condition on whoever services the unit.

Public property needs an encroachment permit, and the definition reaches portable toilets. City code calls it an encroachment to go upon, over or under public property, or to place any facility on it, or to use it so as to obstruct its use. The list of examples is open rather than closed. The code then bars any obstruction in a public place for any purpose whatsoever without a valid permit, and the City's own code enforcement page on rights of way says placing equipment, construction materials or machinery on public ground is prohibited. Only the City and its own employees are exempt, so an encroachment permit from the City Engineer is the route.

An event on city ground needs thirty working days, and the permit is short. A parade or local special event on a city street, sidewalk, alley, parkway or other public property needs a written permit from the city manager, filed at least thirty working days ahead. The permit runs no more than two consecutive days. The city manager may extend it once by no more than three further days, so five days is the practical ceiling.

A block party needs the block to agree in writing. A permit may issue for a block party or similar neighborhood event only where the applicants file a petition signed by sixty percent or more of the residents of the affected block. That is a social gate rather than a counter transaction, and it takes longer than the paperwork does.

Two other clocks sit inside the application. The insurance endorsement has to reach the City forty five days before the event starts, and where food is served the Riverside County health department must be contacted at least thirty days ahead. Fees and any cash deposit against city departmental charges are due three days before the permit takes effect.

Parks run on a sunrise to sunset clock. Murrieta parks are open sunrise to sunset, and nobody may remain after posted closing or arrive before posted opening unless lawfully attending an event approved in writing by the director of community services or the city manager. Once an area is reserved for exclusive use it is closed to everyone else. That decides delivery and collection windows at Town Square Park as much as it decides guest hours.

California registers whoever cleans the unit. State health law makes it unlawful to clean chemical toilets as a business, or dispose of the cleanings, without an unrevoked registration from the local health officer, which for Murrieta means Riverside County. The application names the exact disposal location, and every registration goes void at the end of the calendar year. Ask your account manager for the current one with the quote.