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ORDINANCE NO. 852 <br /> <br />CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1002.02 OF THE CITY CODE, LOCAL FIRE <br />REGULATIONS, TO INCLUDE REGULATIONS FOR RECREATIONAL FIRES <br /> <br /> <br />THE CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW ORDAINS: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Mounds View hereby amends Title 1000, Chapter <br />1002, Section 1002.02 of the Mounds View Municipal Code by adding the following underlined <br />language: <br /> <br />1002.02: LOCAL FIRE REGULATIONS: The Minnesota State Fire Code provides the local Fire Chief <br />ability to adopt local fire regulations. The Fire Chief may amend these regulations from time to time as <br />needed. Copies of the regulations are available at City Hall or the Fire Department. In addition, the <br />Mounds View City Council has adopted the following regulations pertaining to recreational fires in the <br />City: <br /> <br />Subd. 1. Definitions: <br /> <br />a. Chimenea: a free standing front loading fireplace or oven with a bulbous body and <br />usually a vertical smoke vent or chimney. <br /> <br />b. Manufactured Freestanding Pit: A Chimenea or other movable device or container <br />designed, marketed and manufactured for the purpose of containing a fire for cooking or <br />recreational purposes. <br /> <br />c. Recreational Fire: A fire maintained within an outdoor fireplace, fire pit, fire ring, <br />Chimenea or other Manufactured Freestanding Pit, for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, <br />cooking or similar purpose. <br /> <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Recreational fires are allowed under the following conditions: <br /> <br />a. Only natural, clean, dry firewood, cut in short lengths less than two (2) feet, may be <br />burned. <br /> <br />b. The fire must be contained within an in-ground fire pit, fire ring, fireplace or <br />manufactured freestanding pit not exceeding three (3) feet in diameter. The fire shall be <br />limited in fuel such that at no time does the flame height exceed two (2) feet. The outside <br />edge of in-ground fire pits shall be ringed with approved metal, brick or rock.