HomeMy WebLinkAbout1823ORDINANCE NO. /21o45/-
AN ORDINANCE adopting a uniform fire code
prescribing regulations governing con-
ditions hazardous to life and property
from fire or explosion, and establishing
a bureau of fire prevention and providing
officers therefor and defining their powers
and duties, and repealing sections of the
Port Angeles Municipal Code.
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 regulation
governing 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 parti-
cularly the 1973 edition thereof and the whole thereof, save
and except such portions 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 incorporated as fully as if set out at length here-
in, 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
recommend to the proper appointing authority the employment
of technical inspectors, who, when such authorization is
made, shall be selected through an examination to determine
their fitness for the position. The examination shall be open
to members and non - menbers of the Fire Department, and appoint-
ments made after examination shall be for an indefinite term
with removal only for cause.
Secton 3. DEFINITIONS.
(a) Wherever the work "Jurisdiction" is used in the
Uniform Fore Code, it shall be held to mean the Municipal Court
of the City of 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 ABOVE- GROUND 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 above - ground tanks is prohibited, are here-
by established as follows: In the CBD and CAD zones as pre -
scribed'in Ordinance 1709 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 petro-
leum gas is restricted, are hereby established as follows:
In all zone classifications except M -1 and M -2 as prescribed
in Ordinance 1709 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 limites referred to in Section 11.106(b) of the
Uniform Fire Code, in which storage of explosives and
blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as
follows: In all zone classifications except M -1 and M -2
as prescribed in Ordinance 1709 and subsequent Ordinances
amending the 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 wrong-
ly 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
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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 the provi-
sions of Code hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or
who shall violate or fail to compy with any order made there-
under, or who shall build in violation of any detailed state-
ment of specifications or plans submitted and approved there-
under, or any certificate 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
non - compliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than
$500.00 or by imprisonment for not less than two days nor
more than 180 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. The
imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse
the violation nor permit it to continue; and all such persons
shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or de-
fects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified,
each ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall
constitute a separate offense.
(b) The application of the above penalty shall not be
held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
Section 10, REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES.
Ordinances 1760 and Section 14.20.010 through Sections
14.20.090 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code are hereby
appealed.
Section 11. VALIDITY.
The City Council of the City of Port Angeles, hereby de-
clares that should any section, paragraph, sentence, or word
of this Ordinance or of the Code hereby adopted be declared
for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the City of
Port Angeles that it would have passed all other portions of
this Ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any
such portion as may be declared invalid.
Section 12. DATE OF EFFECT.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its approval as required by law.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
and approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting of the Council
held on the . /,$T day of /j14 3/ , 1974.
Mayor
Attest::
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City Clerk
Approved as to form:
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