[Adopted 12-15-2008 by L.L. No. 4-2008]
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Editor's Note: Former Part 2, New York State Fire Prevention Code, Art. VIII, Administration and Enforcement, adopted 2-27-1978 by L.L. No. 3-1978, as amended, was repealed 4-16-2007 by L.L. No. 10-2007. See now Ch. 118, Building Construction, Art. II, Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration and Enforcement.
The Village of Canton recognizes the importance
of providing its emergency services with rapid entry into locked buildings.
Delay in gaining entry can result in substantial property damage,
delays in providing lifesaving or other medical procedures, and increased
danger for emergency services personnel and the building occupants.
This article provides for the placement in secured, locked containers
of keys to important areas within a structure and information that
may be vital and necessary to the health, safety and welfare of its
occupants and responding emergency crews.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A detection system which is designed and installed to comply
with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards to
automatically detect smoke and/or fire.
A system or assembly of piping, valves, controls and sprinklers
which are designed and installed to comply with the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA) standards, which utilize water, foam,
carbon dioxide or other gas to automatically react to and suppress
fire.
Any device designed to alert fire or emergency medical personnel
to an emergency condition requiring attention and to which fire or
emergency medical service units are expected to respond. This definition
shall include alarms that terminate at an answering service, as well
as those that emit an audible or visible signal.
An alarm signal from an emergency alarm or notification by
an emergency alarm answering service which calls for an emergency
response from the Fire Department for fire or emergency medical services
where an emergency situation does not in fact exist. The term "false
alarm" shall not include an alarm signal caused by testing or repairing
of telephone or electrical lines or equipment outside of the premises,
an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence, violent
conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably
subject to control by the alarm or alarm supplier.
A high security key vault of UL type, approved by the Village
of Canton Office of Code Enforcement and the Chief of the Fire Department,
master keyed with Medco Biaxial Level 7 or equivalent lock. Locks
shall be keyed to the key configuration provided by the Village of
Canton. Such vaults shall have weatherproof gaskets, shall have a
covered lock opening and shall be highly resistant to drilling or
vandalism.
A high-security steel plate vault, a minimum of 14 inches
high by 12 inches wide by two inches deep, constructed to the same
standards as the lock box, for the storage of documents.
Village of Canton Office of Code Enforcement, 60 Main Street,
Canton, New York 13617.
A.
All buildings located within the Village of Canton
having an automatic fire alarm system or a fire sprinkler system shall
be equipped with a key box or key box document vault.
B.
One- and two-family dwellings and buildings having
a twenty-four hour, seven-day-per-week guard system shall be exempted
from the requirements for a key box.
A.
The key box shall be installed on the front of the
building, near the main entry door and between four and six feet above
the ground, unless approved for another location or at a higher or
lower level. All installations shall be approved by the Village Code
Enforcement Officer and the Village Fire Chief.
B.
Keys within the lock box shall be labeled for easy
identification, either by the tenant name or indexed to a floor plan
of the building, and shall be kept current.
C.
The key box shall contain the following:
(1)
Unless otherwise agreed upon with the Village Fire Chief, keys or magnetic cards for the exterior doors, the keys or magnet cards for all the interior doors identified in Subsection C(2) to C(5), below, within the building, and a scaled floor plan of the building. Mixed occupancies and strip-shopping-center keys shall be provided for each occupancy.
(2)
Keys or magnet cards to locked mechanical equipment
and sprinkler control rooms.
(3)
Keys or magnet cards to locked electrical rooms or
panels or fire alarm control panels.
(4)
Keys or magnet cards to locked elevator rooms or controls,
and elevator keys, if required.
(5)
Keys or magnet cards to other areas as directed by
the Office of Code Enforcement.
(6)
Access codes to digital fire alarm keypads.
D.
The key box document vault shall contain those items
required to be stored in a key box, and, unless the Village Fire Chief
otherwise agrees, the following additional items:
(1)
A current list of facility personnel knowledgeable
about safety procedures of the materials on site, complete with the
telephone numbers of each person,
(2)
A current emergency and hazardous chemical inventory
form and binder containing the material safety data sheets (MSDS)
or, in the event that the volume of MSDS sheets is too great to keep
practically in the document vault, the location of the on-site MSDS,
and those MSDS shall be readily available for use by emergency response
personnel.
(3)
A facility site plan showing the location of storage
and use of hazardous materials on site, and any other building floor
plan deemed necessary by the Office of Code Enforcement and the Village
Fire Chief
A.
All existing buildings covered by this article shall
comply within 18 months of the effective date of this article.
B.
All new construction covered by this article, including
buildings currently under construction as of the effective date of
this article and for which no certificate of occupancy has been issued,
shall comply immediately.
A.
Any person who shall fail to comply with any of the
applicable provisions of this article or any lawful order, notice,
directive, permit or certificate of the Office of Code Enforcement
made herein shall be punishable by a fine of $250. Each month that
a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
B.
In lieu of said fine, any person determined to be
in violation of the provisions of this article shall install and maintain
a key box or key box document vault as directed and approved by the
Office of Code Enforcement.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper, meddle,
deface, vandalize or interfere in any way with an emergency access
system. Violation of this provision shall be punishable by a fine
of $250.
D.
Any unpaid fine assessed pursuant to this section
shall be charged to the owner(s) of the affected property, who shall
be jointly and severally responsible for the payment of same, and
shall be assessed against the affected property and levied as part
of the next Village tax bill for the property and collected in the
manner fixed by law for the collection of taxes.
E.
Except as provided otherwise by law, failure to comply
with any of the applicable provisions of this article shall not be
a crime, and the penalty or punishment imposed therefore shall not
be deemed for any purpose a penal or criminal penalty or punishment,
The Office of Code Enforcement shall administer
and enforce the provisions of this article.
