[CC 1984 § 23.120]
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Fire Prevention
Ordinance."
[CC 1984 § 23.130]
A.
Except as hereinafter exempted in this Section, no
business or activity for which a permit is required by this Section
shall be undertaken by any person not having such a permit, nor shall
any person erect or maintain any well, building or structure or any
part thereof which is regulated by this Article without having a permit
so to do.
B.
Each application for a permit under this Article shall
be submitted in writing in duplicate to the City Clerk, together with
a plan of any work proposed to be done and a statement of any materials
proposed to be used; and the City Clerk shall issue the permit applied
for if he finds that all provisions of this Article will be complied
with. The permit herein required shall be made in such form as may
be adopted by a resolution of the Board of Alderment and one copy
thereof shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
C.
Ordinary repairs and minor alterations not involving
any change in major structural parts such as walls, beams, girders,
chimneys and flues, or involving a cost of not more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or erection of detached outbuildings outside the
fire limits (such as sheds, chicken houses, and one-car private garages)
costing not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00); or minor changes
or repairs in electrical wiring or equipment, shall not require the
issuance of a permit.
D.
When any wall, structure, building or part thereof
shall be constructed within the City without a permit or contrary
to the provisions of this Article, it shall be taken or torn down
or removed, and the expense incident thereto shall be recovered of
the owner of said property by a suit in a court of competent jurisdiction.
[CC 1984 § 23.140]
The Board of Aldermen may, by resolution from time to time,
establish and amend schedules of fees for permits and inspections
required or authorized by this Article; and while any such resolution
is in effect no permit shall be issued or inspection shall be made
until payment of the fee applicable thereto, if any, has been paid
to the City.
[CC 1984 § 23.150]
The Marshal or designated officer shall inspect walls, buildings
and structures for which permits have been issued under this Article
during the period of construction to see that the provisions of this
Article are complied with. Whenever, in his opinion, by reason of
defective or illegal work in violation of a provision of this Article,
the continuance of a building operation is contrary to public welfare,
he may order all further work to be stopped and may require suspension
of work until each condition in violation has been remedied.
[CC 1984 § 23.160]
It shall be the duty of the Marshal or designated officer to
inspect or cause to be inspected by City officials or members all
public buildings and places of public assembly not less than once
each year, and all other buildings, premises and public thoroughfares,
except private dwellings, as often as may be necessary, for the purpose
of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable
to cause fire. A written report of every such inspection shall be
filed with the City Clerk by the inspector. Such inspector may at
all reasonable hours enter any building or premises for the purpose
of making any inspection which, under the provisions of this Article,
he may deem necessary to be made.
[CC 1984 § 23.170]
Whenever the Marshal or designated officer or his representative
may find combustible or explosive matter or dangerous accumulation
of rubbish or unnecessary accumulation of waste paper, boxes, shavings
or any other highly flammable materials especially liable to cause
fire and which is so situated as to endanger property, or shall find
obstructions to or on fire escapes, stairs, passageways, doors or
windows liable to interfere with the operations of the fire department
or egress of occupants in case of fire, or any other condition which
constitutes a fire hazard, he shall order same to be removed or remedied.
Such order shall be complied with within forty-eight (48) hours by
the owner or occupant of such premises or building.
[CC 1984 § 23.180]
All matters usually included in fire prevention codes which
are not covered in this Article or in other chapters of this Code
shall conform with generally accepted good practice. The Building
Code as recommended by the American Insurance Association and the
various recommended good practices published by the National Fire
Protection Association shall be deemed to be generally accepted good
practices for the construction and equipment of buildings and the
fire protection and life safety in connection with hazardous materials
and processes. Fire resistance ratings of floor, ceiling, wall and
partition assemblies as published by the American Insurance Association
and by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., shall be deemed acceptable
to establish fire resistance ratings required by this Article.
[CC 1984 § 23.190]
A.
Any owner, lessee, agent, operator or occupant aggrieved
by any order issued pursuant to this Article may file an appeal to
the Board of Aldermen within ten (10) days from the service of such
an order, and the Board shall fix a time and place not less than five
(5) days nor more than ten (10) days thereafter when and where such
appeal may be heard by it. Such appeal shall stay the execution of
such order until it has been heard and reviewed, vacated or confirmed.
B.
The Board of Aldermen shall, at such hearing, affirm,
modify, revoke, or vacate such order. Unless revoked or vacated, such
order shall then be complied with.
C.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to deny the
right of any person to appeal from an order or decision of the Board
of Aldermen to a court of competent jurisdiction. Such appeals shall
stay the execution of such order until it has been heard and reviewed,
vacated or confirmed.
[CC 1984 § 23.200]
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate or fail to comply
with any provision of this Article or any notice or order of the Marshal
or designated officer given pursuant thereto and from which no appeal
has been taken, or with any such notice or order as affirmed or modified
by the Board of Aldermen or by a court of competent jurisdiction within
the time fixed therein. The imposition of one (1) penalty for any
such violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue.
[CC 1984 § 23.600]
For the purposes of this Article, the following term shall have
the meaning indicated:
Includes any building or part thereof in which more than
three (3) automobiles, trucks, tractors or similar self-propelled
vehicles are stored, serviced or repaired. Detached structures auxiliary
to dwelling or apartment buildings are specifically exempted from
the provisions of this Article.
[CC 1984 § 23.610]
No person shall use any buildings or part thereof as a garage
without a permit.
[CC 1984 § 23.620]
No garage shall hereafter be located in any frame building exceeding
one (1) story in height or exceeding three thousand two hundred (3,200)
square feet in area. No such garage shall be located in any building
containing other occupancy unless separated therefrom by wall, partition,
floor or ceiling assemblies or noncombustible materials having a fire
resistance rating of not less than two (2) hours, with all connecting
openings protected with approved self-closing fire doors. No such
garage shall be located in any building not having concrete or similar
noncombustible floors. Floors which drain to sewers or storm drains
shall be provided with an oil separator or trap.
[CC 1984 § 23.630]
The fuel tanks of motor vehicles shall be filled directly through hose from pumps drawing from underground tanks installed as required in Section 507.120 of this Article or from approved portable tanks. There shall be no facilities for gasoline handling or filling in any basement or sub-basement garage. No gasoline or other flammable liquid shall be allowed to run upon the floor or to pass into the drainage system of the premises.
[CC 1984 § 23.640]
No repairs of any kind shall be made in any basement or sub-basement
garage.
