[Adopted 10-7-1997 by Ord. No. 328 (Part
10, Ch. 1, Art. A, of the 1987 Code); amended in its entirety 6-1-2021 by Ord. No. 462]
That a certain document, three copies of which are on file in the office of the Borough Manager in the Borough of Trappe, being marked and designated as the International Fire Code, 2015 edition, including Appendix chapters being adopted A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, as published by the International Code Council, be and is hereby adopted as the Fire Code of the Borough of Trappe in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, regulating and governing the safeguarding of life and property from fire and explosion hazards arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices, and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the occupancy of buildings and premises as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Fire Code on file in the office of the Borough Manager of the Borough of Trappe are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this part, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in § 135-2 of this article.
The following sections of the code are hereby revised:
The geographical limits referred to in certain sections of the
2015 International Fire Code are hereby established as follows:
In interpreting any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted,
the following principles shall be governing:
A.
The said fire code shall not supersede any provision of the Uniform
Construction Code adopted by the Borough of Trappe or any law of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of any regulation promulgated by any
department or agency of the commonwealth by authority of law where
such law or regulation is in conflict with or identical to a provision
of the said code; provided, however, that any provision of the said
code that is stricter than or in addition to any state law or regulation
governing a particular subject or activity shall be in effect and
shall be enforced within the Borough of Trappe, subject to the penalties
prescribed in the code.
B.
Mention in or regulation by the code hereby adopted of any specific
use of property or of any business or industry shall not in itself
authorize such use of property or the establishment or carrying on
of any such business or industry in the Borough. It is hereby declared
that the intent of the Borough Council is that permitted and prohibited
uses of property in the Borough shall be governed by the Borough's
Zoning Ordinance, its amendments and supplements.[1]
That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase
of this article is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this article. The Borough of Trappe hereby declares that it would
have passed this article, and each section, subsection, clause or
phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
That nothing in this article or in the Fire Code hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance hereby repealed as cited in § 135-1 of this article; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this article.
