[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Charter Township
of East China 8-1-1988 by Ord. No. 172
(Ch. 8-08 of the 1980 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Uniform Fire Code and Uniform Fire Code Standards prescribing regulations
governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion
shall be adopted and a Bureau of Fire Prevention established.
Adoption. There is hereby adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Charter Township of East China for the purpose of prescribing regulations
governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion
that certain code and standards known as the “Uniform Fire Code”
and the “Uniform Fire Code Standards” published by the Western
Fire Chiefs Association and the International Conference of Building Officials,
being particularly the 1997 Editions thereof and the whole thereof, a copy
of which code and standards have been and are now filed in the Office of the
Clerk of the Charter Township of East China, and the same are hereby incorporated
as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this chapter
shall take effect, the provision thereof shall be controlling within the limits
of the Charter Township of East China.
[Amended 7-20-1992 by Ord. No. 204; 9-15-1997
by Ord. No. 251]
Liquids in outside aboveground tanks. The limits referred
to in Section 7902.3.3 of the Uniform Fire Code in which the storage of flammable
or combustible liquids is restricted are hereby established as the corporate
limits of the Charter Township of East China.
Storage of liquefied petroleum gases. The limits referred
to in Section 7902 of the Uniform Fire Code, in which storage of liquefied
petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby established as the corporate limits
of the Charter Township of East China.
Limits for explosives storage. The limits referred to
in Section 7701 of the Uniform Fire Code, in which storage of explosives and
blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as the corporate limits
of the Charter Township of East China.[2]
Establishment and duties. The Uniform Fire Code shall
be enforced by the Fire Department of the Charter Township of East China,
the fire departments under contract with the Charter Township of East China,
including Marine City and the City of St. Clair, and the Ordinance Enforcement
Officers as designated by the Charter Township of East China.
Those required in addition to code. The Ordinance Enforcement
Officer or the Chief of a Fire Department shall act to determine and specify,
after giving affected persons an opportunity to be heard, any new materials,
processes or occupancies for which permits are required in addition to those
now enumerated in said code.
Appeal from decision to Board. Whenever a permit application
is disapproved or refused or when it is claimed that the provisions of the
code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of the code have been
misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision
to the Board of Trustees of the Charter Township of East China.