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)