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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-1104 - Ordinance - 03/08/1978ORDINANCE NO! 1704 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING 1976 SOUTHERN STANDARD FIRE PREVENTION CODE WITH 1978 REVISIONS SETTING FORTH RULES AND REGULATIONS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY BY PROMOTING THE CONTROL OF FIRE HAZARDS, REGULATING THE INSTALLATION, USE AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT, REGULATING THE USE OF STRUCTURES, PREMISES AND OPEN AREAS IN THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION; PROVIDING FOR THE ABATEMENT OF FIRE HAZARDS; ESTABLISHING THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROCEDURES FOR ENFORCEMENT; SETTING FORTH STANDARDS FOR COMPLIANCE; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATIONS THEREOF; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: SECTION 1. Ordinances No. 967 and 1000 are hereby repealed, and Ordinance No. 49 is hereby amended. SECTION II. Adoption of the 1976 Southern Standard Fire Prevention Code with the following amendments and additions: A. Chapter 20, Division X, Section 20.1013 Parking & Garaging, Paragraph D. At no time while discharging flammable liquids shall the driver or operator be out of sight and reach of the discharge valves. If at any time while discharging, the operator must leave the truck, for any reason, he shall shut down all valves until he returns and shall be totally responsible for any and all spillage. B. Firelanes: Shall be Chapter 41 Division 1. 41.101 When required: No building of any type construction for occupancy shall be constructed in such a manner that any part of the structure is more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from a public street or highway; provided, however, that such structure may be erected at a greater distance if the owner designates, constructs and maintains a fire lane or access easement having a minimum width of twenty feet and a minimum height clearance of fourteen feet terminating within one hundred fifty feet of the furthest point of such structure; providing further, however, that no fire lane shall be required for; 1. Any single family or duplex dwelling. 41.102 Specifications: Any fire lane more than one hundred feet in length shall either connect at each end to a dedicated street or be provided with a turnaround having a minimum radius of fifty feet when measured from curb to curb. All fire lanes shall be maintained and kept in a state of good repair at all times by the owner, manager or person in charge of the premises, and the City of College Station shall never be responsible for the maintenance thereof. The Fire Official or his authorized representative is hereby authorized to designate adequate fire lanes and/or turnarounds to any building when deemed necessary for Fire Department access in the event of fire in such building. 41.103 FIRE LANE SIGNS; TOW -AWAY ZONE SIGNS. ORDINANCE NO. 1104 Page 2 The owner, manager or person in charge of any building to which fire lanes have been approved by the Fire Official or his authorized representative shall post and maintain appropriate signs in conspicuous places along such fire lanes stating: NO PARKING -FIRE LANE. Such signs shall be twelve (12) inches wide and eighteen (18) inches high, with a companion sign twelve (12) inches wide and six (6) inches high stating: TOW -AWAY ZONE. Any NO PARKING -FIRE LANE or TOW -AWAY ZONE SIGN SHALL BE PAINTED on a white background with symbols, letters and border in red. Drawing and samples of such signs may be obtained from the Fire Department of the City of College Station. Standards for mounting, including but not limited to the height above the grade at which such signs are to be mounted, shall be as adopted by the Fire Official of College Station. PLACEMENT OF SIGNS NOT APPLICABLE Where the placement of such signs is not applicable or when in the opinion of the Fire Chief or his representative such signs would cause a burden on the management, curb marking will be accepted, but must have the same wording as the signs with black letters on yellow background. 41.104 DESTRUCTION OF FIRE LANE OR TOW -AWAY SIGNS. It is hereby unlawful for any person, without lawful authority to attempt or in fact alter, destroy, deface, injure, knock down or rem3ve any sign designated a fire lane or tow -away zone erected under the terms of this ordinance. 41.105 ABANDONMENT OR CLOSING. No caner, manager or person in charge of any premises served by a r quired fire lane shall abandon or close such fire lane without wri ten permission of the Fire Official of the City of College Sta ion. 41.106 PARKING IN FIRE LANES PROHIBITED. No terson shall park, place, allow, permit or cause to be parked, pla ed or remain unattended any motor vehicle, trailer, boat or similar obstruction within or upon an area designated as a fire lane and marked by an appropriate sign. Any motor vehicle, trailer, boat or similar obstruction found parked or unoccupied within an area designated as a fire lane as required by this section is hereby delcared a nuisance per se and any such motor vehicle, trailer, boat or similar obstruction parked or unoccupied in such a manner as to obstruct in whole or in part any such fire lane shall be prima facie evidence that the registered owner unlawfully parked, placed or permitted to be parked or placed such obstruction within a fire lane. The records of the State Highway Department of the County Highway License Department showing the name of the person to whom the Texas Highway License or boat or trailer license is issued shall constitute prima facie evidence or ownership by the named person. 41.107 MODIFICATIONS. OW09 ORDINANCE NO. 1104 Page 3 The Fire Official 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 such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the Fire Official of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant. 41.108 ENFORCEMENT; ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS; IMPOUNDMENT OF OBSTRUCTIONS. The Fire Official or any member of the Fire Department designated by the Fire Official, the Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department designated by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to issue parking citations for any motor vehicle, trailer, boat or similar obstruction found parked or unattended in or upon a designated fire lane and may have such obstruction removed by towing it away. Such vehicle or obstruction may be redeemed by payment of the towage and storage charges. No parking citations shall be voided nor shall the violator be relieved of any penalty assessed by a Judge of the Municipal Court for any provision by the redemption of the obstruction from the storage facility. 41.109 SUBMISSION OF PLOT PLANS; DUTIES OF CONTRACTORS. Prior to the issuance of a building permit two (2) plot plans with designated fire lanes shall be submitted to the Building Inspection Department for review by the Fire Official of the City of College Station. The Fire Official then will approve or disapprove the designated fire lanes and indicate the needed signs and pavement markings. One of these plans shall be retained by the City of College Station and the other returned to the owner for his use. The contractor or person in charge of any construction site for commercial, industrial, mercantile, educational, institutional, assembly, hotel, motel, multifamily dwelling, or mobile home park occupancies shall provide and maintain during construction an approved all-weather fire lane, not less than twenty (20) feet in width, as shown on approved plot plans. Final paving of such fire lane shall be completed prior to issuance of any certificate of occupancy. 41.110 PENALTIES. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted or fail to comply herewith, 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 City of College Station, shall severally for each and every violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than 02910 ORDINANCE NO. 1104 Page 4 n CM $5.00 nor more than $200.00 or by imprisonment for not less than two days nor more than ten days or 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 separate offense. The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. SECTION III. Date of Effect. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption and its publication. SECTION IV. Severability Clause. The sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this ordinance. PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED this the 8th day of March, 1978. ATTEk City -Secretary AP OVED Mayor " q_L4W� C_ M911