Section 319.2.1 Event permit required. An event
permit is required from the Fire Code Official for any location where
three (3) or more mobile food preparation vehicles will be set-up
or in operation at any one (1) time on the same property or at the
same venue. The event permit may be issued annually for recurring
situations with approval of the Fire Code Official.
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Section 319.2.2 Separation between vehicles. There
shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet of clear space between any vehicles
as measured from the furthest extent of the vehicle or anything tethered
to the vehicle except for a connection to a public utility (water,
power, etc.).
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Section 319.2.3 Separation from structures. There
shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet from any mobile food preparation
vehicle and any structure measured from the furthest extent of the
vehicle or anything tethered to the vehicle (except for a connection
to a public utility) to the outermost edge of the building roof overhang
projected in a vertical plane directly down to the ground surface.
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319.2.4 Failure to obtain a permit. The Fire Code
Official shall have the authority to suspend or revoke the occupancy
permit of any commercial occupancy that hosts or otherwise allows
an un-permitted mobile food preparation vehicle to operate on its
property in violation of Section 319.2.
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Section 907.11.2 Every person, corporation, firm,
or other entity owning or occupying any premises within the boundaries
of the City of St. Charles, in or on which premises is installed an
automatic fire alarm, fire detection or sprinkler system, shall maintain
such system in such an operating condition that the alarm system shall
not transmit to St. Charles County Dispatch and Alarm any false alarms.
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Section 907.11.3 It shall be unlawful for any owner
or occupant to reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required
or so installed; except this shall not prohibit the owner or occupant
from temporarily reducing or discontinuing the protection where necessary
to make tests, repairs, alterations, or additions. The Fire Code Official
shall be notified before tests, repairs, alterations, or additions
are performed that may affect a fire alarm systems and of its completion
and the Fire Code Official shall be advised of the extent of any such
work, and the need for additional requirements to be met. Whenever
an alarm system is to be shut off for repairs, it shall be the owner's
or occupant's responsibility to determine if the technician performing
such repairs has notified the Fire Code Official of the pending shut-off
prior to such action. When an alarm has central station monitoring/supervision,
the company providing this service shall also be notified of said
action. Failure to notify the Fire Code Official or the central station
monitoring/supervising company of a system shut-off, and if the shut-off
results in an unnecessary alarm being transmitted to the fire department,
will subject the owner or occupant to a fee of one hundred dollars
($100.00) for each alarm received.
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Section 907.11.4 Should an alarm system transmit
any false fire alarm to the fire department, either directly or through
a central dispatching service, or should inspection of such system
by any officer of the fire department reveal that such a system is
in a state of maintenance or disrepair that such system is likely
to transmit a false fire alarm, the owner or occupant of the premises
shall immediately take such remedial action as necessary, and shall
make or cause to be made such adjustments and repairs to the alarm
system that the Fire Code Official shall order, in order to abate
the condition causing the transmission or likelihood of transmission
of false fire alarms.
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Section 907.11.5 Any person, firm, corporation
or other entity given an order by the Fire Code Official, pursuant
to Section 907.8.1 herein, shall comply within twenty-four (24) hours
after such order has been given. Any person, firm, corporation or
other entity who shall fail to comply within twenty-four (24) hours
after such order has been given shall be fined one hundred dollars
($100.00) for each day that such violation shall occur, or continue
to occur.
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Section 907.11.6 All false alarms to which the
fire department responds shall result in the following service charges
to the alarm system's owner or occupant:
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A warning for the first and second false alarm in
any calendar year.
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A fifty dollar ($50.00) fee for the third false
alarm in any calendar year.
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A one hundred dollar ($100.00) fee for the fourth
and each subsequent false alarm in any calendar year.
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Upon determination by the Fire Code Official that a false alarm
has occurred, the fire department shall send a notice to the alarm
user, notifying the alarm user of the determination and directing
payment within thirty (30) days of any fee that may be due.
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The fire department may cancel any notice or service charge
upon satisfactory proof by the alarm user that a particular alarm
falls within the exceptions enumerated in Section 907.11.1.2.
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Willful refusal to pay any such service charge within thirty
(30) days of notice shall constitute a violation, but in prosecution
of any violation, the fire department shall prove, in addition to
the willful refusal to pay, that the service charge was properly imposed.
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