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CHIEF or CHIEF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT The Chief of Public Safety of the City of Kalamazoo or their authorized representative.

COMBUSTIBLE WASTE MATTER Magazines, books, trimmings from lawns, trees, leaves, flower gardens, pasteboard boxes, rags, papers, plastic, straw, sawdust, packing material, shavings, boxes and all garbage, rubbish and refuse that will ignite through contact with flames or ordinary temperatures.

GARBAGE The animal or vegetable waste and food wrap materials resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and/or serving of food.

JURISDICTION The City of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

OPEN BURNING or OPEN FIRE A fire made from any combustible waste matter or any flammable material of any type or kind, including but not limited to wood, trees, branches, wood chips, compressed wood or other wood products, which is kindled and maintained in whole or in part in the open air.

RECREATIONAL FIRES The noncommercial burning of materials, other than rubbish, brush and leaves, for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, or similar purposes in which the fuel burned is contained in a fire pit or commercial outdoor fireplace with an area that does not exceed three feet in diameter.

RUBBISH (TRASH) Any combustible or noncombustible waste matter, except garbage, including but not limited to paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, plastics, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, automobile parts, mineral matter, glass, crockery, dust and the residue from the burning of flammable material and/or combustible waste matter.

A. The International Fire Code adopted by this article shall be enforced by the Bureau of Fire Prevention of the Department of Public Safety. The Chief of the Department of Public Safety, subject to the approval of the City Manager, shall detail such members of the Department of Public Safety as inspectors, as shall from time to time be necessary to enforce such code. B. A report of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be included in the annual report of the Department of Public Safety, and it shall include all proceedings under the code adopted by this article with such statistics and other data as the Chief of the Department of Public Safety may require.

A. The limits referred to in Section 5704 of the International Fire Code adopted by this article, in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established to be the following area in the City: beginning at a point on the center line of Stockbridge Avenue and Mills Street; thence north on the center line of Mills Street to the center line of East Vine Street; thence east on the center line of East Vine Street to the City limits line; thence north on the City limits line to a point 150 feet north of the intersection of East Michigan Avenue, Schippers Lane and Wallace Avenue; thence northwest to a point 150 feet east of the intersection of East Michigan Avenue and East Main Street; thence north to the center li...

The Chief of the Department of Public Safety shall have authority to modify any of the provisions of the International Fire Code adopted by this article, upon application, in writing, by the owner or lessee, or their duly authorized agent, when there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of such code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done. The particulars of such modification, when granted or allowed, and the decision of the Chief of the Department of Public Safety thereon, shall be entered upon the records of the department, and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.

A. The Chief of the Department of Public Safety shall determine and specify, after giving affected persons an opportunity to be heard, any new materials, processes or occupancies, which shall require permits, in addition to those now enumerated in the code adopted by this article. The person affected may appeal such decision to the Building Board of Appeals as provided in § 15-46 . At all times the decision of the Board of Appeals shall be in such a way as to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the City, the occupants of the premises, or persons and property nearby. B. The Fire Prevention Bureau of the Department of Public Safety shall disseminate information on all new materials, processes, or occupancies referred to above to departm...

Whenever the Chief of the Department of Public Safety shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a permit applied for under the code adopted by this article, or whenever it is claimed that the provisions of such code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of such code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Chief of the Department of Public Safety to the Building Board of Appeals, pursuant to the rules, regulations, and procedures thereof. Such appeal shall be made within 30 days from the date of the decision by the Chief of the Department of Public Safety.

A. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the International Fire Code adopted by this article or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Chief of the Department of Public Safety, Board of Appeals, or a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall severally, for each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment fo...

[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Commission of the City of Kalamazoo as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.] GENERAL REFERENCES Adoption of county refuse and garbage ordinance — See § 1-6B(7) . Trash removal service — See § 17-112. Abatement of nuisances — See § 22-5. Solid waste — See Ch. 31 .

[Adopted 10-25-1982 by Ord. No. 1271 ]

[Amended 5-6-1996 by Ord. No. 1618 ; 3-5-2007 by Ord. No. 1821 ] The following definition shall be used for the purposes of this chapter:

CURBSIDE COLLECTION SERVICE The method of garbage or rubbish collection service whereby the collection company requires the container to be placed at or near the street right-of-way for pickup.

DWELLING Any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living by human occupants.

GARBAGE Food wastes and such other wastes which results from the handling, preparing, cooking, serving or consumption of food (such as packaging, wrappers, napkins, etc.).

INSTITUTIONAL DWELLINGS Those dwellings, other than an individual's own home, used for the housing of, feeding of, and caring for the occupants, examples of such dwellings being hospitals and licensed nursing homes.