HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 70-8 - Fire Prevention
ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PLIES GIBING
IIEGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFtAND
PItOPERTY FROM FIRE Olt EXPLOSION.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown
Texas.
SECTION I..ADOPTION OF FIRE PREVENTION CODE.
There is hereby adopted by the Council for the purpose
regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and prop
explosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention C
Edition, recommended by the American Insurance Association
the 1967 Abbreviated ddition thereof and the whole thereof,
such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amend
of this ordinance), of which code not less than three (3) c
and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of
same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set
herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall tak
provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits o
Georgetown.
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SECTION 2. ENTOI�CaIENT.
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief ol the Fire
Department.
SECTION 3. DEFINITION.
Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the code her y adopted, it
shall be held to mean the City of Georgetown. t
SECTION 4.
The limits referred to in section 73 of the code hereby
which storage of flammable liquidssin outside aboveground ta
the limits referred to in section 103 of the code hereby ado
storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, and the 11
in section 53 b of the code hereby adopted, in which storagf
and blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as
SECTION 5. MODIFICATIONS.
The Chief of the Fire Department shall have power to mc
provisions of the code hereby adopted upon application in wx
owner or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when there ar
difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of
that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety
substantial justice done. The particulars of such modificati
allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department
entered upon the reeords of the department and a signed copy
the applicant.
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SECTION 6. APPEALS.
Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an application 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
beeniii.sconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the
decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to Council within 30 days from the
date of the decision appealed.
SECTION 7. PENALTIES.
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(a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the code here-
by adopted 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 of 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 Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time
fixed herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and noncompliance
respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than
$10.00 nor more than $200.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one days
nor more than (3)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
violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified,
each -ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separ-
ate offense.
(b) The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent
the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
SECTION 8. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES.
All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinances are hereby repealed.
SECTION 9. VALIDITY.
The Council hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence,
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. DATE OF EFFECT.
This ordinance shall take effect
aired by law. I
Date Passed: May 12, 1969.
ATTESTi.,
Claud lads,
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,immediately aifter its approval as re-
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