There is adopted by the city for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire, explosion, or wildfire that certain codes which contains building standards known as the 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2024 Edition, as amended by the State of California), and the non-building standards known as the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2024 Edition, together with Appendix B, and the State of California amendments thereto, and the Public Resources Code, Division 4, Section 4291.
(Ord. 2043, 11/3/2025)
Section 106.9, CWUIC is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
106.9. Examination of documents. When required by the fire code official, plans submitted to the Building Official for a permit shall be reviewed by the Fire Chief to determine compliance with the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code and the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. Upon review a written report shall be returned to the Building Official listing deficiencies or compliance with the Code.
Section 108.2, CWUIC is deleted and replaced with as follows:
108.2. Permits and Fees.
a. 
The fees for the permits and other services shall be as established by resolution of the Central County Fire Department Fire Board as amended from time to time. The fee shall be set to cover the cost of the Fire Department to review and inspect the intended activities, operations or functions. The fees must be applied to the appropriate agency, City of Burlingame or Central County Fire Department, depending on the type of service.
Exception: (1) The applicant for a given permit shall be exempt from the payment when the work to be conducted is for the City of Burlingame under written contract to the City or for events sponsored or co-sponsored by the City.
b. 
In the case of multiple permits for an applicant, the permit applicant will be charged the single highest listed rate of all the permits required. The other permittable items will be charged at a rate of 50% of the listed fee as long as the permits are for the same address.
c. 
Where processes or materials are inherent with a permittable item, subsequent fees may be waived at the discretion of fire chief.
d. 
All permits shall have a set number of inspections per permit as set forth by the Central County Fire Department Fee Schedule. Additional inspections and additional re-inspections will be billed at an hourly rate consistent with the Central County Fire Department Fee Schedule.
e. 
Application for "event" type permits shall be submitted 14 days prior to the event date. Applications submitted within 13 days prior to the event date shall be charged double the regular permit rate as established by the Central County Fire Department Fee Schedule.
f. 
"After Hours" inspections shall be invoiced at a rate of one and one-half time the normal hourly rate of the inspecting fire personnel. "After Hours" inspections will be billed at a rate of three hours minimum. "After Hours" inspections are defined as follows: Inspections conducted outside of normal business hours, as defined on the Central County Fire Department website and based upon personnel availability.
g. 
Any person, group, organization, institution or business failing to pay the applicable fees under this Article shall after 30 days of the due date, for either existing or new permit applicants, shall be issued a citation for non-payment of the required permit fee. The penalty for all permit payments delinquent after 30 days shall be a doubling of the original fee.
(Ord. 2043, 11/3/2025)
Section 108.4 CWUIC is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
108.4. Investigation. Whenever construction or work for which a permit is required by this code and has been commenced without first obtaining a permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for the work. All work done without a required permit, including demolition of all or part of a structure or system shall be subject to the investigation and fees imposed by this section.
Section 108.4.1. is added to this code and shall read as follows:
108.4.1. Fee — Work without a permit. In the event work is done without an issued permit, an investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be collected as a civil penalty, whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The investigation fee shall be up to 10 times the permit fee. The investigation fee shall be determined by the Fire Chief and shall be based on the staff time reasonably required to resolve all of the issues related to the work that has been performed without a permit. No construction work permit shall be issued until the investigation fee has been paid in full.
Nothing in this section shall relieve any persons from fully complying with the requirements of this code, in the execution of the work, or from any other fees or penalties prescribed by law.
(Ord. 2043, 11/3/2025)
Section 112, CWUIC is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
112. Appeal and review.
(a) 
The chief of the fire department shall be charged with the duty and responsibility of administering the provisions of this chapter.
(b) 
Whenever it is provided herein that certain actions shall be done in accordance with an order of the fire department, such order shall be complied with. Any person aggrieved thereby, may appeal to the fire chief in writing within ten (10) days after the date of such order, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. The fire chief shall issue a written decision to affirm, modify or reverse the order within two (2) business days of the receipt of the appeal. The fire chief's written decision may be appealed to the City Council no later than ten (10) days from the date of the fire chief's written decision. The City Council's decision shall be final and conclusive. Except in the cases of immediate hazard, the enforcement of the order shall be suspended until such person has exhausted the appeal process as described above.
(Ord. 2043, 11/3/2025)