There is hereby adopted by the city, for the purpose of prescribing
regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from
fire or explosion, the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code,
save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified,
or amended, with a copy of such code being filed in the office of
the city secretary, and with a copy being kept by the city fire marshal
.
(Ordinance 2874, ex. A, adopted 10/22/18; Ordinance
3116 adopted 10/23/2023; Ordinance 3123 adopted 2/12/2024)
The International Fire Code, 2021 edition, chapter
3, section 308.3, is amended by adding the following language (with a red-lined version of the changes being attached to Ordinance 3123 as exhibit A):
(1) The
construction, erection, maintenance or use of a barbecue pit or the
burning of any combustible material within 10 feet of any wall of
a multifamily residential building, or on or beneath any balcony,
porch, roof overhang or a veranda of a multifamily residential building
constitutes a fire hazard which endangers life and threatens property.
(A) No person shall construct, erect, install, maintain or use any barbecue
pit or burn any combustible material within 10 feet of any wall of
a multifamily residential building, or on or beneath a balcony, porch,
roof overhang or a veranda of a multifamily residential building.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to construct, erect, install, maintain
or use any barbecue pit or burn any combustible material within 10
feet of any wall of a multifamily residential building, or on or beneath
a balcony, porch, roof overhang or a veranda of a multifamily residential
building.
(C) Electric barbecue pits are exempted from this section provided they
have no open flame and are equipped with, and there is present, a
noncombustible metal lid, with a handle, fitting over the entire cooking
surface.
(D) For purposes of this section:
(i) Barbecue pit shall mean any kind of device used for cooking food
by exposing such food directly to red heat or open flames from heated
briquettes, charcoal, natural gas, propane, compressed gas, wood or
paper.
(ii)
Multifamily residential building shall mean a building containing
more than one residential unit including apartment complexes, duplexes,
fourplexes, condominiums or any other structure where more than one
family may reside in a residential unit.
(iii)
Burn shall mean to light a fire, which produces heat or light,
resulting in the combustion of any material including wood, natural
gas, liquid petroleum gas, charcoal, briquettes or paper.
(Ordinance 2874, ex. A, adopted 10/22/18; Ordinance
3116 adopted 10/23/2023)
The appendices to the International Fire Code, 2021 edition
are hereby adopted with amendments. A copy of such amendments shall
be filed in the office of the city secretary and a copy of such amendments
shall be kept by the city fire marshal.
(Ordinance 3116 adopted 10/23/2023)
Fire prevention permit fees shall be as provided for in the fee schedule found in appendix
A of this code.
(1999 Code, sec. 5.102)