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(a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or use any fire protection or fire fighting equipment that does not meet the minimum standards established by the Ohio Fire Marshal in the Ohio Fire Code.
(b) Except for public and private mobile fire trucks, no person shall engage of the business of servicing, testing, repairing or installing fire protection or fire fighting equipment for profit without first being certified by the Ohio Fire Marshal, as required by Ohio R.C. 3737.65 and the Ohio Fire Code.
(c) Any person who wishes to service, test, repair or install fire protection or fire fighting equipment shall first notify the Fire Code Official no later than forty-eight hours prior to the date scheduled for the intended service, test, or installation for approval.
(Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
Statutory reference:
Fire protection systems, see OAC 1301:7-7-09(A)(5)(901.5)
(a) The Ohio Building Code shall supersede and govern any order, standard, rule or regulation of the Ohio Fire Code or the Division of State Fire Marshal, Department of Commerce, in all cases where any such order, standard, rule or regulation is in conflict with the Ohio Building Code, except that rules adopted and orders issued by the Fire Marshal pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3743 prevail in the event of a conflict.
(OAC 4101:2-1-04(B); ORC 3781.11(B))
(b) In all other cases of conflict between the Ohio Fire Code and any other Municipal ordinance or technical code adopted thereby, the stricter standard shall control.
(Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
(a) In any structure that is required by the Ohio Building Code (OBC) to be protected by a manual or automatic fire detection, fire alarm and/or sprinkler system, such system shall be designed and installed so that when activated an alarm will automatically be transmitted to an approved private monitoring agency which meets or exceeds all nationally recognized standards, subject to the following exceptions.
(1) Limited area sprinkler systems consisting of ten or fewer sprinkler heads totally; and
(2) Range hood and food preparation centers.
(b) In addition to the requirements set forth in the Ohio Fire Code and referred to in division (a) of this section and for all new construction, each individual occupancy unit in any multiple occupancy building located in or making up a part of a shopping mall, strip shopping center, office park or complex, industrial park or complex, and/or storage facility or complex shall have a separate, monitored alarm to report both sprinkler and fire activity.
(c) With regard to an existing structure, the requirements of division (b) of this section shall not apply unless the structure or any individual unit in a multiple occupancy building is substantially remodeled. “Substantially remodeled”, for purposes of this section shall mean any of the following:
(1) Any alteration to the interior of the unit that increases the unit's square footage in excess of its current square footage by 10%; or
(2) Any change in occupancy and/or use group as defined in the Ohio Building Code and the Ohio Fire Code or change in occupant, tenant, lessee or the like.
(3) Division of the interior space of the building into two or more spaces separated by a fire wall, knee wall, chain link structure or any other means of separation as determined by the Fire Code Official.
(d) Maintenance of system shall be the responsibility of the occupant, i.e., the owner or the lessee who or which is alarmed.
(e) All required annunciation means shall be readily accessible to responding personnel and shall be located as required by the Fire Code Official to facilitate an efficient response to the fire situation pursuant to NFPA 72.
(f) The City shall not be responsible for any maintenance or malfunction of any system.
(Ord. 47-05. Passed 3-14-05; Ord. 52-08. Passed 5-12-08; Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
(a) Any person wishing to utilize a tent, canopy or other membrane structure for use at any occupancy other than R1-R2 or at a public display or festival or for public or private access shall comply with the Ohio Fire Code.
(b) Any person wishing to utilize a tent, canopy or other membrane structure for use at any occupancy other than R1-R2 or at a public display or festival or for public or private access shall notify the Fire Code Official in writing no less than thirty days prior to the scheduled date of use.
(c) A Fire Safety Inspector upon notification shall conduct an inspection of the structure for the purpose of compliance with the Ohio Fire Code.
(Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
(a) Temporary and transient housing for the purpose of this section shall comply with 110.1.5 of the OBC and shall only be applicable to a use group A occupancy.
(b) Temporary and transient occupants shall be considered as “guests” and referred to as such for purposes of this section.
(c) The following stipulations shall be strictly adhered to for accommodating “guests”:
(1) The Fire Code Official shall be notified in writing of the presence of “guests” a minimum of thirty days prior to the commencement of such an event.
(2) A temporary and transient guest request pack shall be obtained from the Fire Department. The pack shall contain the following: an Application for Temporary and Transient Housing”; a “Fire Protection Bureau, Fire Inspection Report”; “Stipulations for Temporary and Transient Housing (Non-Disaster)”; “Supervision Requirements for Temporary and Transient Housing (Non-Disaster)”; “Supervision Checklist”; “Smoke Detector Test Record”; “Fire Watch/Safety Walk Through Record”; and any other forms deemed necessary by the Fire Code Official. The pack shall be completed for each “guest” and returned to the Fire Department no less than two weeks prior to the commencement of the event.
(3) Upon notification, a Fire Safety Inspector shall conduct a site inspection with the person requesting the accommodation, the guest supervisor and the property owner for the purpose of confirming that all life safety systems, procedures, and stipulations are in place and operational prior to the commencement of the event.
(4) Upon satisfactory completion of the required paperwork and site inspection the Fire Safety Inspector shall sign the form indicating that the stipulations have been met and this becomes the written agreement for the intended accommodation. A copy will be presented to the person requesting the accommodations for the intended “guests” and shall be retained with the “guest” supervisor for the duration of the stay. No stay shall exceed fourteen consecutive days. Each fourteen day stay shall require the completion of a new “Temporary and Transient Guest Request Pack.”
(5) If at any time during the stay, the required stipulations or site become out of compliance with the written agreement, the non-compliance shall be corrected immediately upon discovery or the stay shall be immediately terminated.
(6) In addition to any applicable fees required under this Chapter or other sections of the Avon Codified Ordinance, any charges incurred by the City over and above those incurred in the ordinary course of conducting an inspection shall be the responsibility of the applicant and paid within thirty days of the date of billing.
(Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
(a) Above ground storage tanks for non-dispensing purposes (bulk facilities, emergency generators, waste oil and industrial applications) shall comply with the requirements of the State of Ohio Department of Commerce Division of State Fire Marshal Code Enforcement Bureau for permit and license.
(b) Anyone requiring a permit and license for above ground storage will notify the Fire Code Official by supplying a copy of the permit and license no later than thirty days prior to the filling of the tank.
(Ord. 166-08. Passed 12-8-08.)
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