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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1760• ORDINANCE NO. i AN ORDINANCE adopting a uniform fire code prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, and estab- lishing a bureauotif fire prevention and providing officers therefor and defining their powers and duties. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles. Section 1. ADOPTION OF UNIFORM FIRE CODE. There is hereby adopted by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles for the purpose of prescribing regulations governp conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain Code known as the Uniform Fire Code recommended by the Western Fire Chiefs Association and the International Conference of Building Officials being particularly the 1971 edition thereof and the while thereof, save and except such por- tions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended by Section 6 of this ordinance of which Code not less than three (3) copies have been and are now filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of Port Angeles and the same are hereby and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the City of Port Angeles. Section 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES OF BUREAU OF FIRE PREVENTION. )a) The Uniform Fire Code shall be enforced by the Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the City of Port Angeles which is hereby established and which shall be operated under the supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department. (b) The Chief in charge of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be the Chief of the Port Angeles Fire Department. (c) The Chief of the Fire Department may detail such mem- bers of the Fire Department as inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary. The Chief of the Fire Department shall recom- mend to the proper appointing authority the employment of • tachnical inspectors, who, when such authorization is made, shall be selected through an eximination to determine their fitness for the position. The examination shall be open to mem- bers and nonmembers of the Fire Department, and appointments made after examination shall be for an indefinite term with removal only for cause. Section 3. DEFINITIONS. (a) Wherever the word "jurisdiction is used in the Uniform Fire Code, it shall be held to mean the Municipal Court of the City cf Port Angeles. (b) Wherever the term "Corporation Counsel" is used in the Uniform Fire Code, it shall be held to mean the Attorney for the City of Port Angeles. Section 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STORAGE OF FLAMMABLE OR COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND TANKS IS TO BE PROHIBITED. (a.) The limits referred to in Section 15,201 of the Uniform Fire Code in which storage of flammable or combustible liquids is outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: In the CBD and CAD zones as prescribed in Ordinance 1621 and subsequent ordinances amending the same. (b) The limits referred to in Section 15.601 of the Uniform:'Fire Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable or combustible liquids are prohibited, are hereby established as follows: in all zone classifications except M -1 and M -2 as prescribed in Ordinance 1621 and subsequent Ordinances amending the same. Section 5. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS IN WHICH BULK STORAGE OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES IS TO BE RESTRICTED. The limits referred to in Section 20.105 (a) of the Uniform Fire Code, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is • restricted, are hereby established as follows: in all zone classifications except M -1 and M -2 as prescribed in Ordinance 1621 and subsequent Ordinances amending the same. Section 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STORAGE OR EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS IS TO BE PROHIBITED. The limits referred to in Section 11.106 (b) of the Uniform Fire Code, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, and hereby established as follows: in all zone classifications except M -1 and M -2 as prescribed in Ordinance 1621 and subsequent Ordinances amending same. Section 7. APPEALS. Whenever the Chief shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the provisions of the Code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of the Code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Chief to the City Council within thirty (30) days from the date of the decision appealed. Section 8. NEW MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR OCCUPANCIES WHICH MAY REQUIRE PERMITS. The City manager, the Chief and the Chief of the Bureau'of Fire Prevention shall act as a committee to determine and specify, after giving affected persons an opportunity to be heard, any new materials, processes or occupancies, which shall require permits, in addition to those now enumerated in said Code. The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall post such list in a conspicuous place in his office, and distribute copies thereof to interested persons. Section 9. PENALTIES. (a) Any persons who shall violate any of thelprovisbns of Code hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifica- tions or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certi- ficate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the City Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guiltycof a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 or by imprison- ment for not less than two days nor more than 180 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violationor permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable:time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. (b) The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. Section 10. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. Ordinances 1703 and all former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance or of the Code hereby adopted are herebyAAippealed. Section 11. VALIDITY. The City Council of the City of Port Angeles, hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this Ordinance of of the Code hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the City of Port Angeles that it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. Section 12. DATE OF EFFECT. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and • after its approval as required by law. PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles and approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting of the Council held on the 47% day of April, 1972. Attest: 42J Mayor City Clerk Approved as to form: / i y At y PUBLISHED: A1(1 P(,< aJ /97.Z