It shall be unlawful for any person to use or permit to be used in any building within the fire limits any adobe or any imperfectly burned brick or other unsuitable materials, except as provided in section
7-33. The building inspector shall have power to order the immediate removal of any such material found upon or adjoining any premises where building, alterations or repairs are in progress, and it shall be unlawful for any owner, architect, builder or contractor, when notified by the building inspector, to fail to comply with his orders.
It shall be unlawful to use adobes less than
six inches wide on the bed, or any adobes not faced with hard burned
brick, properly bonded, in enclosing walls of residences exceeding
ten feet in height, or to use adobes brick size in such walls, except
in two courses faced with hard burned bricks, properly bonded, making
a wall twelve inches thick, or to use adobes at all in first story
walls of any building more than one story high.
The established depth of excavations for cellars
and basements shall be ten feet below the sidewalk grade in front
of the same. Any person who shall excavate below the above established
depth shall, at his own proper cost and charge, save and protect the
owners of adjoining property from injury or damage resulting from
such excavation. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any excavation
below the established depth, without first filing with the inspector
of the proposed excavation the street, number and the name and address
of the owner or agent, the depth of the proposed excavation and a
statement of the methods to be employed for the protection of adjoining
property, and receiving from the inspector of buildings and structures
a permit to do such work; provided, that this section shall only apply
to buildings and structures within the fire limits.
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect
or construct any stairway or passage leading from any street, avenue
or alley into the basement or cellar of any building within the limits
of the City, and thereby occupy any portion of the street, alley,
avenue or sidewalk, or to excavate or construct any area or vault
under any sidewalk or portion of the public streets, avenues or alleys
of the City, unless the party so constructing the same shall have
procured a permit to do so from the City council and shall have given
a bond in an amount fixed by the inspector of buildings and structures,
in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars,
which shall be approved by the City council. Such bond shall run to
the City and to any person injured and shall be conditioned for the
payment of all damages that may be adjudged against such person or
against the City on account of any injury which may happen to any
person or property by reason of such stairway, passage, areaway or
vault, or by reason of the unsafe or dangerous condition of the same
or of any covering, grating or railing being over or about the same.
In no case shall excavations be made at a distance less than three
feet from the curb line of the sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful to construct any cellar
or basement under any building erected for business purposes within
the fire limits, without providing the same with suitable openings
for egress therefrom to the outside of the building in at least two
separate places, one of which shall be located at the front and the
other at or near the rear of such cellar or basement. Such openings
shall be equipped with noncombustible ladders or steps leading to
the surface of the street or alley. It shall be unlawful to cover
the opening thereof with anything but iron doors or gratings, opening
outward and fastened on the inside only with a hood or sliding bolt;
or to fail at any time to maintain an unobstructed passageway, not
less than four feet in width, leading from the entrance of the cellar
to each of the aforesaid exits; or for any person to refuse to permit
examination of such cellar or basement by the building inspector,
chief engineer of the fire department or health officer at all reasonable
times.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
in a sidewalk within the limits of the City any grating, the spaces
between the bars of which are more than one and one-quarter inches
in width, nor shall any grating project into a sidewalk more than
five feet or project above such sidewalk, but must be flush therewith.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or
having the control or management of any theater, church, hotel, schoolhouse
or other public building, resorted to or occupied by a considerable
number of persons, to fail to provide the same, under the direction
of the inspector of buildings and structures, with sufficient and
safe means of speedy escape in case of accident or fire. In all cases
the doors of such buildings, when used for public passage, shall open
outwardly, and the doorways and passages shall be so constructed as
to allow in the aggregate twenty-four inches width for every one hundred
people such building is capable of seating. All aisles and passages
in buildings used for public assemblages shall be kept free from chairs,
stools, sofas, benches and other obstructions during any performance,
service, exhibition, concert, lecture or any other public assemblage.
All doors and exits of such buildings used for public assemblage or
other places of amusement where people congregate for amusement shall,
during the continuance of the gathering, be kept unlocked and in a
condition to permit the speedy exit of the audience.
[Added 10-5-2010 by Ord. No. 10-06]
A. All establishments,
including but not limited to restaurants, bars and similar establishments,
which may discharge grease from a scullery sink, pot and pan sink,
dishwashing machine or floor drain, shall install and maintain a properly
sized and located grease interceptor in accordance with the Uniform
Plumbing Code, except that such interceptors shall not be required
for private living quarters or dwelling units.
B. Establishments
shall create and follow an interceptor maintenance schedule based
upon the size of the interceptor and the amount of trapped grease.
Maintenance shall include draining, pumping, cleaning and properly
disposing of trapped grease which shall be performed before the retention
capacity of the interceptor is exceeded. At a minimum, a monthly inspection
of the interceptor by the user shall be performed to assess the need
for cleaning. Documentation shall be maintained by the user on site,
in order to verify when the interceptor was inspected and cleaned.
C. The user
shall allow City personnel ready access at all reasonable times to
all parts of the premises for the purpose of inspection, sampling,
record examination or in the performance of any other duties related
to the interceptor serving the premises.
[Added by Ord. No. 81-96; amended by Ord. No. 83-7; Ord. No. 85-9]
A. All new utilities in the City, except major facilities
as defined by the state public service commission and therefor requiring
approval by the state public service commission, shall be located
underground unless prior to placement, an exception to such underground
placement is made as herein provided.
B. Any improvements or additions to existing utilities
that increase the present capacity by more than fifty percent shall
be placed underground.
C. Any renovation of or improvements or additions to
existing utilities that exceed fifty percent of the cost of the existing
utilities shall be placed underground.
D. Exceptions to the underground placement of utilities
regulated by this section may be made and approved as follows:
(1) For those new services, or any improvements, additions
or renovations thereto which are required to be placed underground
and which are rated at 200 amperes or less, an exception to such underground
placement may be granted in writing by the electrical inspector or,
in absence thereof, the City engineer.
(2) For those new services, or any improvements, additions
or renovations thereto which are required to be placed underground
and which are over 200 amperes, an exception to such underground placement
may be granted by the City electrical inspector in concurrence with
the governing body by a majority vote thereof.
[Amended by Ord. No. 81-41]
Any person, whether as principal, agent, clerk,
employee or servant, who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses
to comply with the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars, and each day's
omission or neglect of the thing commanded to be done, and every continuance
of any act or thing prohibited by this article, after notice, shall
be deemed a separate offense and shall be punished accordingly