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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-024A Council Ordinances9it 1 ORDINANCE NO. 24A VILLAGE OF LINO LAKES COUNTY OF ANOKA STATE OF MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.24, EFFECTIVE MAY 14, 1959. The Village Council of the Village of Lino Lakes, Minnesota, ordains: Section 1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code. There is hereby adopted by the Village Council of the Village of Lino Lakes, Minnesota, 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 recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly the 1960 edition thereof and the whole thereof, as same may be amended from time to time in the future, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended (by Section 4 of the ordinance), of which code not less than one (1) copy has been and now is in the office of the Village Clerk -Treasurer of the Village of Lino Lakes, Minnesota, and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the Village of Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Section 2. Duties of Fire Marshal. a. The Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Fire Marshal of the Village of Lino Lakes. b. The Fire Marshal may detail such members of the fire department as inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary. c. A report of the Fire Marshal shall be made annually and transmitted to the Village Council; it shall contain all „araceadiugs under this=erode, with as 'the— Fire Marshal may wish to include therein; the Fire Marshal shall also recommend any amendments to the code which, in his judgment, shall be desirable. Section 3. Definitions. a. Whenever the word "Municipality" is used in the Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the Village of Lino Lakes. b. Whenever the term "Corporation Counsel" is used in the Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the Attorney for the Village of Lino Lakes. c. Whenever the words "Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention" are used in the Fire Prevention Code they shall be held to mean the Fire Marshal. Section 4. The Fire Prevention Ordinance No. 24 is changed so as to add the following provisions. hereby amended and A. Fire Marshal shall survey premises and specify equipment to be provided. (1) The Fire Marshal shall survey each commercial and industrial establishment, mercantile, education, hospital, and institutional occupancy, place of assembly, hotel, multi -family house, and trailer camp; and he shall specify suitable fire detecting devices or extinguishing appliances which shall be provided in or near boiler rooms, kitchens of restaurants, clubs and like establishments, storage rooms involving considerable combustible material, rooms in which hazardous manufacturing processes are involved, repair garages, and other places of a generally hazardous nature. (2) Such devices or appliances may consist of automatic fire alarm systems, automatic sprinkler or water spray systems, standpipe and hose, fixed or portable fire extinguishers of a type suitable for the probable class of fire, or suitable asbestos blankets, manual or automatic covers, or carbon dioxide or other special fire extinguishing systems. In special hazardous processes or storage, appliances of more than one type, or special systems may be required. B. Maintenance of equipment. Sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire alarm systems, and other fire protective or extinguishing systems or appliances which have been installed in compliance with any permit or order, or because of any law or ordinance, shall be maintained in operative condition at all times; and it shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant to reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required; except this shall not prohibit the owner or occupant from temporarily reducing or discontinuing the protection where necessary to make tests, repairs, alterations or additions. The Fire Marshal shall be notified before such tests, repairs, alterations, or additions are started unless the work is to be continuous until completion. C. Failure to install fire extinguishing equipment. Failure to install or •rovide orderea-by ire 'ars a and to maintain it in operative condition at all times, shall be condsidered a violation punishable as indicated hereinafter in this ordinance. Disregard of such orders shall constitute sufficient basis for the revoking of any permit held. D. Tampering with fire extinguishers. (1) No person shall tamper, meddle, or interfere in any way with any fire extinguisher or part thereof, or hose connected therewith; or with any inside or outside standpipe or its connection or hose connected therewith, in or upon any public building; or empty, injure, break, or destroy the extinguisher or standpipe, or the machinery, hose, fixtures, or connections of said extinguisher or standpipe. (2) Nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of such extinguisher, hose, or connections, inside or outside standpipe, or its connection or hose connected therewith, in the event of fire in the building in or upon which said apparatus is kept, or its vicinity; nor prevent the filling or repair of any extinguisher or the repair of any standpipe, connection, or hose connected therewith, or the inspection of any of said auxiliary fire -fighting equipment by persons regularly authorized to inspect the same. E. Certain Fire Extinguishers Prohibited. (1) Scope. This provision is for the purpose of limiting and controlling the sale, purchase, and possession of certain vaporizing liquid fire extinguishers in the Village of Lino Lakes. (2) Types of Fire Extinguishers prohibited. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell, expose for sale, buy, exchange, give, receive, or have in possession any fire extinguisher containing any of the following materials, or any other vaporizing liquid not specifically approved by the Fire Marshal, whether laboratory approved or not: Carbon Tetrachloride CC14 Chlorobromomethane CH2BrC1 Azeotropic Chloromethane CM7 Bromochlorodifluoromethane CBrC1F2 Dibromodifluoromethane CBr2F2 1,2-Dibromo-2-chlor-1, 1,2-trifluoroethane CBrF2CBrC1F Ethlene dibromide CH2BrCH2Br 1,2-Dibromotetrafluorethane CBrF2CBrF2 Hydrogen Bromide HBr Methylene bromide CH2Br2 Bromodifluoromethane CHBrF2 Dichlorodifluoromethane CC12F2 Methyl Bromide CH3Br (3) Approval Required for Fire Extinguishers. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, directly or through an agent, to sell or offer for sale any make, type, or model of extinguisher, either new or used, unless such make, type, or model of extinguisher has first been tested and is approved and Iabeiet ry ua1 Laboratories, Underwriter Laboratories, Inc., or other testing laboratory approved by the Fire Marshal, as providing adequate and reliable tests and examination. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, or make available for use in the Village any make, type, or model of extinguisher which is not tested and/or serviced as required in the standards of the National Fire Protec- tion Association entitled "Standard for the Installation, Maintenance and Use of Portable Fire Extinguishers" (NFPA No. 10) date May, 1962, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Village Clerk -Treasurer, and which regulations hereby are adopted and made by reference a part of this code. (4) Fire Inspectors to Impound Illegal Fire Extinguishers. If, upon any inspection, the inspectors of the Village shall find any fire extinguisher which is not in efficient operating order, or is dangerous, or violates any of the provisions of this ordinance, such inspector or inspectors shall immediately impound such fire extinguisher and deliver the same to the Fire Marshal, and shall notify in writing the owner, or the person, firm, or corporation in charge or occupying the premises from which the fire extinguisher was removed, and the person who shall last have refilled or recharged the extinguisher of the defect or defects in the extinguisher. Section 5. Modifications. The Fire Marshal shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code 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 Marshal thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant. Section 6. Appeals. Whenever the Fire Marshal 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 been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Fire Marshal to the Village Council within 30 days from the date of the decision appealed. Section 7. Penalties. a. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the ordinance hereby 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 or 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 Village Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed ins, ,._ hall -Severally for each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding $300.00 or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 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 separate offence. b. The application of the mentioned penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal or prohibited conditions. Section 8. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances. All former ordinances of parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance or of said codes are hereby repealed. Section 9. Date of Effect. This ordinance takes effect upon its passage and publication. Adopted by the Village Council this 8th day of September , 1969. Ralph L'Allier Mayor J e L. Emerto Village Clerk -Treasurer (VILLAGE SEAL)