Any owner or occupant of any building, structure or premises
or any person responsible for the condition of any premises who refuses
or fails to comply with an order or direction of the fire marshal,
given under the provisions of this article, to remove or remedy a
hazardous condition, or who violates any provision of this article,
shall be subject to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00).
Each day of failure to comply with such order or direction or code
provision shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ordinance 129, secs. 9–11,
adopted 11/15/1915; Ordinance
2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code, secs. 12-21.7, 12-21.13; 1983 Code, sec.
11-47; Ordinance 8835, sec. 2, adopted 10/10/1985; Ordinance 2005-O0141, secs. 12, 13, adopted 12/15/2005)
It shall be the duty of the fire marshal or his designee to
inspect or perform a fire safety survey as often as may be necessary,
but not less than once a year, all buildings and premises, except
the interiors of living quarters and private dwellings, for the purpose
of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable
to cause fire, or to ascertain and discover any violations or deficiencies
of the provisions or intent of this division or any law or ordinance
affecting the fire hazard.
(Ordinance 129, sec. 8, adopted 11/15/1915; Ordinance 2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code,
sec. 12-21; 1983 Code, sec. 11-48; Ordinance 2005-O0141, secs. 14, 15, adopted 12/15/2005)
It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department and
the fire marshal jointly to forthwith plat the city into “fire
station territories,” each containing a city fire station, and
submit such plat to the city manager for approval. Upon approval of
said plat by the city manager as submitted or as modified by him,
it shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to conduct
one interior and one exterior survey per year at each commercial occupancy
in the station territory by members of the fire department employed
in each territory, such fire safety surveys to be made by uniformed
firemen at the time and in the manner designated and directed by the
chief of the fire department. Such surveys shall be made by carefully
viewing all premises in each territory both from the abutting street
and abutting alley. The chief of the fire department shall require
such written reports from surveying fire department personnel as will
disclose commonly occurring fire and life safety hazards and critical
life safety hazards as defined in the General Procedures Manual of
the Lubbock Fire Department regarding safety surveys.
(Ordinance 2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code, sec. 12-21.1; 1983 Code, sec. 11-49; Ordinance
2005-O0141, secs. 16, 17, adopted 12/15/2005)
Whenever the chief of the fire department or fire marshal, after
inspection of any building or structure or premises in the city, finds
said building, structure or premises to be an unsafe building as defined
by the fire code, the fire chief or fire marshal shall cause to be
served a written notice on the owner or occupant or person responsible
to vacate the structure or abate the unsafe conditions in accordance
with the fire code and city ordinance.
(Ordinance 2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code, sec. 12-21.2; 1983 Code, sec. 11-50; Ordinance
2005-O0141, secs. 18, 19, adopted 12/15/2005)
When any building or structure is lawfully occupied and used
for residential purposes, vacation of the building, residence or structure
shall not be ordered by notice under this article unless such vacation
is specially ordered by the city council.
(Ordinance 2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code, sec. 12-21.8; 1983 Code, sec. 11-55; Ordinance
2011-O0036, sec. 11, adopted 4/14/2011)
Upon written request of the chief of the fire department or
the fire marshal, after notices have been given as provided for in
this division, the city attorney is authorized to prosecute such suits
as may be deemed advisable to enforce the provisions of this division.
(Ordinance 2297 adopted 9/24/1957; 1959 Code, sec. 12-21.9; 1983 Code, sec. 11-56; Ordinance
2011-O0036, sec. 12, adopted 4/14/2011)
