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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1990-0835 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MERKL ORDINANCE NO. 835 Council Bill No. Series of 1990 TITLE: AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 8-1 AND REENACTING SECTION 8-1 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE, 1988 EDITION, COPYRIGHT 1988, PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO: Section 1. Section 8-1 of the Code of Laws of the City of Wheat Ridge is hereby repealed and reenacted as follows: The Uniform Fire Code, 1988 edition, copyright 1988, by the International Conference of Building Officials, and the Western Fire Chiefs Association, is hereby adopted by reference and incorporated into this article as though fully set forth herein as the Fire Code of the City of Wheat Ridge. Three (3) copies of said Uniform Fire Code shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk and may be inspected during regular business hours. Except as otherwise provided hereafter, such Code is adopted in full, including the outline of contents, index and appendixes: I-A, I-B, I-C, II-A, II-B, III-A, IV-A, VI-A, VI-B and VI-D contained therein. Section 2. Section 8-5 of the Code of Laws of the City of Wheat Ridge is hereby repealed and reenacted as follows: "Section 8-5. Amendments. The "Uniform Fire Code" 1988 edition, adopted by Section 8-1 hereof is hereby amended as follows (section numbers referred to herein refer to and correspond with the section numbers of the Uniform Fire Code): (a) Section 2.101 shall be amended by deleting the first paragraph in its entirety and substituting the following: The Uniform Fire Code shall be enforced by the Chief Building Inspector of the City of Wheat Ridge and his designated assistants, who shall perform the following functions: 1. Approval of plans for building new structures and remodeling of existing structures. ORDINANCE NO. 835 Page 2 2. The inspection of structures and structures. all construction of new the remodeling of existing 3. The destruction of unsafe structures. In addition, the Uniform Fire Code shall be enforced by the Bureaus of Fire Prevention of the Wheat Ridge Fire Protection District, the Arvada Fire Protection District, the Lakewood Fire Protection District and the Fairmont Fire Protection District, for the functions as listed in Section 2.101. (b) Section 2.303. Board of Appeals, shall be deleted and in its place the following sentences shall be added: "In order to determine the sui tabili ty of alternate materials and type of construction, and provide reasonable interpretation of the provisions of this Code, the Building Code Advisory Committee, previously established by Chapter 2 of the Code of Ordinances of the City shall have authority to hear and decide those matters delegated to it, and all matters requiring use of a board of appeals by this Fire Code." (c) Article 4 , Permits. Sections 4.101 through 4.108 shall be deleted in their entirety. ( d) Section 10.207 ( a) . General, shall be amended by adding a second sentence to Section 10.207 (a) to read: It shall be the responsibility of the owner, tenant, manager or any agent of the owner to maintain the requirements of this section. (e) Section 10.208(a) General. Premises Identification shall be amended by adding to the last sentence the words, "and shall be a minimum of 4 inches in height." (f) Section 10.209. Key Box shall be amended by adding subsection (b) "All buildings with a required fire alarm system or automatic fire-extinguishing system installed shall be required to provide a key box in a location approved by the respective Fire District." (g) Section 10.301 (c). Water Supply the first para- graph shall be amended to read, "An approved water supply capable of supplying the required fire flow for fire protection shall be provided to all premises upon ORDINANCE NO. 835 Page 3 which buildings or portions of buildings are hereafter constructed. A fire hydrant shall be installed and maintained within 150 feet of a fire department connection serving a sprinkler or standpipe system. (h) Section 10.301 ( f) . Approval and Testing shall be amended by adding a second paragraph which shall read, "When the control unit or annunciator of a fire alarm system, or the main valve of an automatic fire extin- guishing system or standpipe system are installed in a separate room, the door to the room shall be appropriately marked." (i) Section 10.305(b). Approvals shall be amended by addition of the following: "Fire department hose connections for sprinkler and standpipe systems shall be located a minimum of 36 inches, and a maximum of 48 inches, above the adjacent finished grade. When an automatic fire-extinguishing system or standpipe system is provided in a building and it serves more than one tenant space, the main control valve shall be located within a room that has access provided from the building exterior with a door for fire department access. Said door shall be a 3' 0" by 6' 8" minimum dimension and shall be appropriately labeled with a permanent sign with letters not less than 3/4 inch wide and at least 6 inches tall." (j) Section 10.306(a). Where Required shall be amended by adding a new paragraph which shall read as follows: "Audible fire alarm signals shall be installed wi thin any building containing a sprinkler system. (k) Section 10.3l3(e). Operation and Maintenance, shall be amended by the addition of a sentence to the last paragraph, which shall read, "The control unit for the fire extinguishing system shall be electrically supervised by the fire alarm system when the building is required to have an alarm system installed." (1) Section 11.101. shall be deleted in adopted. Bonfires and Outdoor Rubbish Fires full and the following shall be "Section 11.101. Bonfires and Outdoor Rubbish Fires Prohibi ted. No person shall kindle or maintain any bonfire or rubbish fire except in an incinerator ORDINANCE NO. 835 Page 4 approved by the Air Pollution Control District having jurisdiction, and any other such fire shall be prohibi ted. Fires builtin fireplaces used for non- commercial or recreational purposes, fires necessary for agricultural operations, irrigation ditch maintenance fires used for fire department training purposes shall be exempt from these regulations if an appropriate air pollution permit has been obtained and if such fires are not hazardous in the opinion of the Fire Chief." (m) Section l2.l04(e). Door Identification shall be amended by adding the following paragraph: "Exit doors that could be obstructed from the outside shall be posted with a permanent sign on the exterior side of the door stating, "EXIT-DO NOT BLOCK". This sign shall consist of letters not less than 3/4 inches wide and at least 6 inches high on a contrasting back- ground. (n) Section l4.l03(b). System Design. amended by adding the following paragraph: Shall be "All fire detection systems shall be a Class A four wire system. Exception: Occupancy Group R, Division 3." (0) Section l4.l04(b)3. Type of System, shall be amended by the addition of sub-paragraph: "D. Group E Division 3 occupancies with 20 or more occupants." (p) Section 14.105. Special Provisions amended by adding two new subsections (d) read as follows: shall and (e) be to (d) Remote Indicating Devices. Remote indicating devices shall be provided on all required duct detectors, elevator and electrical panel rooms and where detection device actuation is not readily visible to responding fire fighters. (e) Duct Detection Systems. A building containing a fire alarm system and having required duct detectors shall have the duct detection system tied into the fire alarm system on a separate zone. (q) Section 14.107. Automatic Telephone Dialing Devices, shall be amended by adding the following sentence: ORDINANCE NO. 835 Page 5 "Automatic telephone dialing devices shall not be installed on fire alarm systems, detection systems, or sprinkler systems required by this code." (r) Section 45.203(a). adding: Materials, shall be amended by "EXCEPTION: Gypsum wallboard is not allowed." (s) Section 79.903(b). Supervision, shall be amended by deletion of the EXCEPTION. (t) Section 79.1204 (b) . Leaving Vehicle Unattended, shall be amended to read as follows: "The driver, operator or attendant of any tank vehicle shall not leave the vehicle while it is being filled or discharged. Delivery and/or Vapor Recovery hoses when attached to a tank vehicle shall be considered part of the tank vehicle. It shall be unlawful for any driver, operator or attendant to defeat or fail to use any vapor recovery device or system that has been provided for vapor recovery purposes. All equipment shall be approved for use with the vapor recovery system provided at the site. " (u) Sec. 85.108. Access shall be amended by adding the following paragraph: "Electrical rooms containing the main electric dis- connect switch shall be identified with a permanently affixed sign that reads "Main Electric Disconnect." This sign shall be affixed to the outside of the door leading to the room. Section 3. Purpose. The purpose of this Code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life and limb, health, property, and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location and maintenance of all buildings and structures within the City and certain equipment specifically regulated herein. Section 4. Violation and Penalties. Any person, firm, association or other entity doing any act of omission in violation of this Code shall be subject to prosecution, and subsequent penalty, if any, as provided in Section 5-5 of the Code of Laws of the City of Wheat Ridge. ORDINANCE NO. 835 Page 6 Section 5. Severabilitv. If any part or parts of this ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts thereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone part or parts be declared invalid. Section 6. Safety Clause. The City Council hereby finds, determines, and declares that this ordinance is promulgated under the police power of the City of wheat Ridge; that it is promulgated for the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and that this ordinance is necessary for the preservation of heal th and safety for the protection of public convenience and welfare. The City Council further determines that the ordinance bears a rational relation to these objectives. Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after final publication. INTRODUCED, READ, AND ADOPTED on first reading by a vote of I to 0 on this 11 th day of June 1990; ordered published in full in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Wheat Ridge and Public Hearing and consideration on final passage set for July 9 1990, at 7:30 o'clock p.m., at Council Chambers, 7500 West 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. READ, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final reading by a vote of 8 to 0, this 9th day of July, 1990. SIGNED BY THE MAYOR this 10th day of JUlY,~~ Dan Wilde, Mayor ATTEST: APPROVEDI(~RM:)? _:RNEY' John H~es, City Att~~ 1st Publication: June 20, 1990 / 2nd Publication: July 18, 1990 Applewood/Wheat Ridge Transcript: Effective Date: August 2, 1990 (code/fire/90)