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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-1269 - Ordinance - 02/26/198129 ORDINANCE NO. 1269 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS AMENDING CHAPTER 3, SECTION 1 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: That Chapter 3, Section 1 of the Code of Ordinances, City of College Station, Texas is hereby amended to read as follows: k Section A. Standard Building Code Adopted. The Standard Building Code, specifically the 1979 Edition and the 1980 Revisions thereto, published by the Southern Building Code Congress, a copy of which is on file in the office of the City Secretary of the City of College Station, Texas, is hereby adopted and designated as the building code of the City of College Station. Said code is adopted to the same extent as though such code were copied at length herein, subject however to the omissions, additions, and amendments contained in this section. Section B. Amendments to Standard Building Code. The above referenced Standard Building Code is hereby amended as follows: (1) Section 102.1(a) is amended to read: "Within the public works depart- ment there is hereby established a division, which may hereinafter be referred to as the building department, and a Building Official shall be appointed." (2) Section 103.7 shall be amended by adding the following sentence: "Department of law in this instance shall be con'struecl to-,mean City Attorney." (3) Section 105.7 shall be amended by adding the following sentence: "The Building Official may require such surveys as may be necessary to establish the location of property lines, public right -of -way lines, and public easements where the locations effect the proposed work, and the said surveys shall be made by a registered public surveyor or registered engineer at the applicant's expense." (4) Section 106.1(d) shall be amended to read: "There shall be no com- bustible or flammable materials constructed on any tract, lot or subdivision where water lines and fire hydrants as required by the applicable subdivision regulations are not completed and in service and where all- weather access for emergency vehicles does not exist to within one hundred and fifty feet (150) of the most remote part of the structure." (5) Section 106.2 is amended by deleting therefrom the phrase "to pay a license tax as provided in the general license ordinance, and." (6) Section 107.2(b) shall be deleted. (7) Section 108.2(d) shall be amended by adding the following sentence: "No inspection shall be required on federal or state property." (8) Section 111.2 is amended to read: "Of the members first appointed, two (2) shall be appointed for a term of one(1) year, two (2) shall be appointed for a term of two (2) years, and (1) shall be appointed for a term of three (3) years; thereafter they shall be appointed for three (3) years. Vacancies shall be filled for an unexpired term in the manner in which original appointments are required to be made. Continued absence of any member from regular meetingt��,y ORDINANCE NO. 1269 page 2 the board shall, at the discretion of the City Council, render such members liable to immediate removal from office." (9) Section 114 is amended to read: "Any person, firm, corporation, or agent who shall violate a provision of this code, or fail to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall erect, construct, alter, demolish, or move any structure, or has erected, constructed, altered, repaired, moved, or demolished a building or structure in violation of a detailed statement or drawing submitted and approved thereunder, or who shall knowingly make a false statement - in applications or drawings submitted for a building permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this code is committed or continued, and upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be fined not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00)." (10) Section 201.2 shall be amended by adding to the definition of mezzanine a new sentence to read: "A mezzanine shall be considered to be an additional story." (11) Section 403.2 is amended by deleting therefrom the following phrase: "except that in Group B- Business and Group S- Storage Buildings, non -fire rated partitions may be used to separate tenants provided no area between partitions rated at one (1) hour or more exceeds three thousand (3,000) square feet." (12) Section 404.7(b) shall be amended to read as follows: (b) "Sprinklers may be omitted over generators and other electrical equipment or switchboards." (13) Section 404.8 shall be amended by adding the following sentence: "There may be required a supplementary lighting system in addition to the regular system by local electric power in Group A -Small Assembly." (14) Section 405.1(c) shall be amended to read as follows: (c) "Restaurants or places supplying food or drink that accomodate one hundred (100) or more people, or that have a stage, or that provide dancing or enterainment features shall be classified in Assembly Occupancy (see Section 404). All other restaurants or places supplying food or drink shall be classified in Small Assembly." (15) Section 411.4(a) shall be added to read as follows: 411.4 Special Con- struction Requirements "All hotels and motels shall be of type I or II construction." (16) A new Section 412.10 shall be added to read as follows: "412.10 - Public Rental Storage Warehouse (a) a public rental storage warehouse is a structure used solely for storage accupancy, which is divided into separate spaces accessible to each tenant and in which the management does not bear responsibilities as a ware- houseman. (b) Tenant separations shall not be required in a public rental storage warehouse. (c) A wall having fire resistance of not less than two (2) hours, par- allel to the longitudinal axis of the building and dividing the building into two (2) parts of equal area insofar as the configuration of rental spaces permits shall be provided in each public rental storage warehouse building." (17) Table 400 shall be amended by the addition of the superscript "q" to the allowable areas tabulated in the Type III, V, and VI columns for Group R accupancy, story height three (3) and above, and the addition to the table of a new note "q" to read: "Two (2) remote independent means of egress from each floor area occupied by separate tenants shall be provided." (18) Section 506.1 is amended by deleting therefrom the phrase: "or areas of refuge (compartmentation) in accordance with Section 506.9." 0335-8 ORDINANCE NO. 1269 page 3 (19) Section 506.8(c) shall be amended to read as follows: "All enclosed stairways are to be pressurized." (20) Section 506.9 shall be deleted. (21) Section 506.11 (a) 2 shall be amended to read as follows: "2 The one and one -half (1 1/2) inch wet standpipe, hose and nozzles in not required, however, the Fire Department risers and hose connections are to be provided in the corridor." (22) Section 508 shall be deleted. (23) Section 701.1(e) shall be amended to read as follows: (e) "Opening in all shaft enclosures shall be limited to those necessary for the purposes.of the shaft." (24) Section 701.1(g) shall be amended to read as follows: (g) "Shaft enclosures shall be of non - combustible materials in Types I, II, and IV construction and may be of combustible materials in Types III, V, and VI construction. Exception: Refuse shutes shall be of non - combustible materials meeting Part I of the definition of non - combustible materials in Section 201.1 and shall be provided with approved sprinkler system." (25) Table 704.3 shall be amended as follows: "Minimum flame spread classifications for all group A- Assemblies shall be Class -A interior finish material." (26) Section 704.4 shall be amended to read as follows: "(a) Foam plastics shall not be used as interior finish except as provided in Section 717." (27) Section 706.5 shall be amended to read as follows: "Roofs on buildings outside of the fire district, as established in Chapter III, may have Type A, Type B, or Type C roof coverings, as specified herein. Wood shingles or shakes may be used only on detached single - family dwellings as provided herein." (28) Section 706.6 shall be amended with the first paragraph to read as follows: "Outside the fire district, one(1) or two (2) story single - family dwellings and accessory buildings not over four thousand (4,000) square feet in area and located not less than seven and one -half feet (7 1/2') from the property line may be roofed with grade - labeled No. 1 and No. 2 wood shingles or shakes with a minimum butt thick- ness of one -half inch (1/2 "), securely fastened with rust resistant nails." (29) Section 901.8 (a) shall be amended to read as follows: An approved automatic sprinkler system shall be provided in stores and similar occupancies where the total floor area exceeds fifteen thousand ( 15,000) square fee *_,per floor. (30) Section 901.8(b) shall be amended to read as follows: An approved auto- matic sprinkler system shall be provided in every hospitalosanitarium, convelescent home or hospital nursing home and home for the aged. In hospitals only, the auto- matic sprinkler system may be omitted from operating, delivery, X -Ray, cardiac, and intensive care rooms when each room is provided with an approved listed smoke de- tector connected to the alarm system. An approved manual or automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout every institutional occupancy where restraint is practiced (jails, reformatories, 03359 r ORDINANCE NO. 1269 prisons, mental institutions). page 4 (31) Section 901.8(c) shall be amended to read as follows: "An approved automatic sprinkler system shall be provided in Group A- Assembly Occupancies throughout, when total floor area exceeds five thousand (5,000) square feet." (32) Section 901.8e shall be added to read as follows:(c) Group "R" - Residential "An approved sprinkler system shall be provided in all hotels and motels when they exceed one (1) story in height." (33) Section 901.8 (f) shall be added to read as follows: (f) Group "B" - Business An approved sprinkler system shall be provided in all Broup B - Business structures where the total area exceeds fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet per floor and in all Group B - Business structures exceeding two stories in height. (34) Section 1103.2(a) shall be amended to read as follows: "(a) There shall be not less than two (2) approved independent exit:. accessible to each tenant area, serving every story, except in one(1) and two(2) family dwellings and as modified in Section 1103.2(c) and in Table 400." (35) Section 1104.5, "Every sleeping room in all operable window or exterior operable from the inside to windows are provided as a mi of not more than forty -four the first paragraph shall be amended to read as follows: residential occupancies shall have at least one (1) door for emergency egress and rescue. The units must be a full opening without the use of separate tools. Where sans of egress or rescue, they shall have a sill height (44) inches above the floor." (36) Section 1105.1(a) shall be amended as follows: "(a) Assembly without fixed seats, the area per occupant (sq. ft.) shall be 15 net." (37) Section 1115.3(c), the first paragraph shall be amended to read as follows: "(c) Winders shall not be permitted in exit stairways, unless a standard stair is also provided." (38) Section 1117.1(g) 3 shall be deleted. (39) Section 1117.2(a) shall be amended to read as follows: "(a) The exit doors of Group E- Educational (except doors of individual school rooms) and Group A- Assembly Occupancies shall be equipped with latches (panic hardware) which release when pressure of not to exceed fifteen (15) pounds is applied to the releasing devices in the direction of the exit travel. Such releasing devices may be bars or panels extending not less than one -half (1/2) of the width of the door and placed at heights suitable for the service required but not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty -four (44) inches above the floor." (40) Section 1123(d) shall be amended to read as follows: "(d) An independent and separate source of power shall be provided for exit signs in all occupancy classifications listed below, subject to the occupant content noted: Minimnm Occupant Occupant Content Assembly (A) All Institutional (I) All Mercantile (M) Greater than 150 0,13 Residential (R) Greater than 100 V w Educational (E) Greater than 300 ORDINANCE NO. 1269 page 5 (41) Section 1124 shall be amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows: "(c) A separate or emergency source of illumination along at least one (1) path of egress shall be provided in all Assembly (A) occupancies and all Mercantile (M) oc- cupancies of over fifty (50) persons capacity. The duration of the emergency power source shall be not less than one and one -half (1 1/2) hours." (42) Section 1302.2(a)shall be amended to read: "(a) Footings shall be so designed that the allowable bearing capacity of the soil is not exceeded. If structural plain concrete, masonry, or timber footings are used, they shall rest on undisturbed natural soil, or thay shall be designed by a registered engineer for the conditions on the site." z (43) Section 1706.2(a) shall be amended to read as follows: "(a) Not less than three (3) studs shall be installed at every corner of an exterior wall." (44) Section 1706.8(b) shall be amended by the addition of the following sentence: "Wood shakes shall not be used for any purpose on any building other than a detached single- family dwelling or accessory structure located rot less than seven and one -half feet (7 1/2') from the property line." (45) Section 1707.7 shall be amended to read as follows: "Attic spaces shall be provided with an interior access opening not less than twenty (20) inches by twenty -four (24) inches. Access opening shall be readily accessible and provided with a lid or device that may be easily removed or operated. When mechanical equip- ment is to be installed in the attic, and only interior access is to be provided, the access opening shall be not less than specified above, but in no case less than the size required to install or remove the largest major component of the unit with- out disassembly. Access is not required when the clear height of the attic space, measured at the roof peak, is less than twenty -four (24) inches." (46) Section 2101.9(c) shall be amended as follows: "Standpipes -In buildings under contruction, not less than one standpipe shall be provided for fire department use during construction. Such standpipe shall be installed when the progress of cons trruction:: is note more than' f f - ty(50) feet in height above grade. Standpipe shall be provided with fire department connection at accessible locations adjacent to usable stairs, and shall be extended as construction progresses to within one floor of the highest point of construction having secured decking or- flooring. Standpipe shall be not less than two and one -half (2 1/2) inch outlet. It shall be so located that seventy -five (75) feet of one and one -half (1 1/2) inch hose will reach within twenty (20) feet of the most remote part of each floor area. (47) Section 2301.2(a) 2 shall be amended to read: "2 Ground sign - means an " outdoor advertising display sign" when such sign is supported by uprights or braces in or upon the ground." (48) Section 2301.8 shall be amended by changing the last sentence to read: "If such order is not complied with within a reasonable time to be determined by the building official, taking into account the nature of the sign structure, the building official shall remove such sign at the expense of the owner or lessee thereof." (49) Section 2303.1(c) shall be deleted. dva VW%FJL L No ORDINANCE NO. 1269 page 6 (50) Section 2303.2(a) shall be amended to read: "(a) Except where the sign face is even with the edge of the roof and covers not more than fifty percent(50 %) of the length of the roof edge upon which it faces, all roof signs shall be so constructed as to leave a clear space of not less than six feet (6') between roof clearance between the vertical supports thereof. No portion of any roof sign structure shall project beyond an exterior wall. (51) Section 2303.3(b) sahll be amended to read as follows: "(b) The surface face of all wall bulletins must be of sheet metal or of the same material with which the wall is surfaces." Section C. Section C shall remain the same. PASSED and APPROVED this 26th ATTEST: CITY SECRETARY day of February APPROVED: MAYOR , 1981. 13352