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[Amended 12-28-2009 by Ord. No. 78-2009]
A certain document, three copies of which are on file in the office of the City Clerk of City of Reading, being marked and designated as the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2009 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, be and is hereby adopted as the Wildland-Urban Interface Code of the City of Reading in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for regulating and governing the mitigation of hazard to life and property from the intrusion of fire from wildland exposures, fire from adjacent structures and prevention of structure fires from spreading to wildland fuels as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Wildland-Urban Interface Code on file in the office of the City of Reading are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this Part, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in § 180-202 of this Part.
The following sections of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code for the City of Reading is hereby amended, revised, deleted, etc., as indicated:
A. Chapter 1, Section 101.1, is amending by deleting the words "name of jurisdiction" and the brackets surrounding that phrase and by inserting in place thereof the words "the City of Reading."
In all matters that are regulated by the law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by regulations of departments or agencies of the Commonwealth promulgated by authority of law, such laws or regulations, or other ordinances of the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, as the case may be, shall control where the requirements thereof are the same as or in excess of the provisions of this Part. This code shall control in all cases where the state requirements, or the requirements of other ordinances of this City, are not as strict as those contained in this Part.
Nothing in this Part or in the Wildland-Urban Interface Code hereby adopted shall be constructed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance as repealed by this Part; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Part.
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