The fire prevention code, adopted by section 4-2-1 of this chapter is amended and changed in the following respects: (1972 Code)
1.14. Permit Fee Schedule For The Examination Of Plans.
(Rep. by Ord. 1408, 2-2-2009)
11.3. Lighting Of Exit Ways. a. Adequate emergency lighting shall be installed in all assembly, educational, industrial, institutional, mercantile, office, storage, and multi-family occupancies. All emergency lighting shall have an alternate source of power such as automatic generators, battery powered systems or two (2) separate power feeds from different generating stations. The emergency lighting system shall be installed so as to sufficiently illuminate all means of egress such as corridors, stairwells, exit doors and any other means of travel that leads to an exit, except as provided for in section 11.3b, 11.3c and 11.3d. b. If it is a mercantile occupancy with less than seven thousand (7,000) square feet, one floor, and at ground level with adequate outside light provided by windows or other means, then emergency lights shall not be required. c. If it is an industrial or storage occupancy with less than seven thousand (7,000) square feet, one floor, and at ground level with adequate outside light provided by windows or other means, then emergency lights shall not be required.
14.2. Survey Of Premises And Specifications Of Equipment. a. The chief of the bureau of fire prevention shall survey each assembly educational, industrial, institutional, mercantile, storage and residential occupancy, except individual dwellings (private homes), and shall specify suitable fire extinguishing appliances and fire detecting devices as may be necessary to provide reasonable safety to persons and property. b. The chief of the bureau of fire prevention shall specify suitable fire extinguishing appliances and fire detecting devices as may be necessary to provide reasonable safety to persons and property in all proposed new dwelling units of multi-family buildings and dwellings.
(1972 Code)
14.4. Automatic Sprinkler System.
(Rep. by Ord. 1454, 3-29-2010)
14.5. Standpipes. a. Approved standpipe systems shall be installed in all buildings exceeding two (2) stories or thirty feet (30') in height, excepting in buildings with existing systems having four inch (4") or larger standing pipes or in one and two-family dwellings. b. Standpipe systems shall be installed so as to provide reasonable safety to persons and property. Evidence that standpipe systems have been installed in accordance with the applicable standard specified for in this section 14.5b in article 31 of this code shall be evidence that such standpipe systems provide reasonable safety to person and property.
27.1. Definitions. a. Decorative material shall include all such material as curtains, draperies, streamers, surface coverings applied over the building interior finish for decoration, acoustical or other effect, and also cloth, cotton, batting, straw, vines, leaves, trees and plastics used for decorative effect, this shall also include all floor coverings, and all materials one-fortieth of an inch (1/40") or less in thickness applied directly to and adhering tightly to a noncombustible base. b. Place of assembly shall mean a room or space used for assembly or educational occupancy for one hundred (100) or more occupants or which has a floor area of one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet or more used for such purposes. Such room or space shall include any similar occupied connecting room or space in the same story, or in a story or stories above or below, where entrance is common to the rooms or spaces.
(1972 Code)