[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Quincy 12-13-2021 by Order No.
2021-107. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall, unless the
context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:
A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities
for one or more persons living as a single housekeeping unit, including
permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.
The Chief of the Quincy Fire Department.
Any real property, whether contiguous or not, which consists
of, or will consist of, separately owned areas, irrespective of form,
be it lots, parcels, units, or interest, and which arc offered or
disposed of pursuant to a common promotional plan, and providing for
common or shared elements or interests in real property. This definition
shall not apply to any form of timesharing, but it shall include condominiums,
any form of homeowners' association, any housing cooperative or any
community trust or other trust device.
A hotel, motel, resort, boardinghouse or inn, as those terms
are defined in MGL c. 140, § 12A; a multiple dwelling, as
that term is defined MGL c. 22, § 13A; or rooming house,
as that term is defined in MGL c 111, § 199B.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a townhouse
or other single-family dwelling. For purposes of this chapter, "townhouse"
means a single-family dwelling unit constructed in a group of three
or more attached units in which each unit extends from the foundation
to roof and with open space on a least two sides.
The Chief shall promulgate rules and regulations to require
that an identifying emblem be affixed to the front of each exterior
entrance area of structures with light frame or truss construction
to clearly communicate that the structure in the affected area is
combustible and known to the state to pose a fire hazard. The emblem
shall be of a bright and reflective color, or made of reflective material.
The shape of the emblem shall be an isosceles triangle and the size
shall be 12 inches horizontally by six inches vertically. The following
letters, of a size and color to make them conspicuous, shall be printed
on the emblem: "LF" to signify light frame construction; "F" to signify
a floor with truss construction; "R" to signify a roof with truss
construction; or "F/R" to signify both a floor and roof with truss
construction. The emblem shall be permanently affixed to the entrance
area at a height and location to be determined by the Chief and shall
be installed and maintained by the owner of the building.
Detached one- and two-family residential structures with truss
construction which are not part of a planned real estate development
shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Individual structures
and dwelling units with truss construction which are part of a planned
real estate development shall not be required to have an identifying
emblem if there is an emblem affixed at each entranceway to the development.
The Chief shall adopt regulations to require that placards identifying
the primary structural system of a structure are affixed adjacent
to the fire alarm control panel and to an exterior wall within 10
feet of the main entrance to the structure.
The placards shall be eight inches vertically by 11 inches horizontally
and shall have a white background, black letters, and a black border.
The letters shall be in at least seventy-two-point boldface type.
The letters and border shall be visible and readable from at 10 feet.
A.
One of
the following descriptions shall be printed on a placard, as appropriate:
(1)
"Load-bearing
concrete walls";
(2)
"Load-bearing
masonry walls";
(3)
"Load-bearing
steel stud walls";
(4)
"Load-bearing
light-framed combustible walls";
(5)
"Structural
concrete frame";
(6)
"Structural
steel frame";
(7)
"Timber
or cross-laminated timber"; or
(8)
If
the primary structural system of the structure is not one of the foregoing,
a description approved by the Chief shall be printed instead.
B.
The following
language shall be printed on each placard following the description
of the structural system: "serves as the primary structural system
of this structure."
