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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 05.09.1966 - Fire Prevention13 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO:LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OIL EXPLOSION. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, of the State of Tyxam: P Section 1. ADOPTION OF FIRE PREVENTION CODE. There is hereby adopted by the Council for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the American Insurance Association, being particularly the 1965 edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended (by section 5 of this ordinance), of which code not less than three (3) copies have been and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of Georgetown and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the O'J date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof nhall be controlling within the limits of the City of Georgetown. Section 2. ENFORCEI ENT. The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire Department. Section 3. DEFINITION. Whereever the word "Municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the City of Georgetown. Section 4. ESTABLISI111EVr OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STORAGE OF FLANINIABLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND TANKS, BULK STORAGE OF I,IQTTTFIM PETROLFUTM GASES AND STORAGE OF E)MLOSIVES AND BLASSTING AGENTS IS TO RE RESTRICTED. The limits referred to in section 73 of the code hereby adoptdd in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, the limits referred to in section 103 of the code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquified -petroleum gas is restricted, and the limits referred to in section 53 b of the code hereby adopted, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: Section 5. MODIFICATIONS The Chief of the Fire Department -shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted upon application in writing by the owner or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done. The particulars of snch modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the appli- cant. Section 6. APPEALS. Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an applica- tion or refuse to grant a permit applied for, 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 imeconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to Council within 30 14 days from the date of the decision appealed, and such appeals shall be under the Substantial Evidence Rule. Section 7. PENALTIES. a. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build irk violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate of permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such order as affirmed or modified by the Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and noncompli- ance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less $ nor more than or by imprisonment for not less than days nor more than days or by both such fine and imprisonment. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such viglations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. b. The application of the above penalty shall not be held to pre- vent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. Section B. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCF.S. All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 9. VALIDITY. The Council hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sen- tence or word of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of Council that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. Section 10. The fact that the passage of this ordinance is of great public importance to immediately put into force the aforesaid fire prevention code for the protection of the lives, health, property and welfare of the cit- izens of the City of Georgetown and thereby creates a public emergency and necessity and therefore this Ordinance shall take effect from and after this reading and its passage and adoption. READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED this 9th day -,.of May, A.D. 1966 ATTEST: Claud Eads, City Secretary Jay C. Sloan, Mayor