(A) The following properties shall be required to have key boxes installed which contain keys to allow the Fire Department immediate access necessary for life saving, firefighting and/or law enforcement purposes:
(1) All multiple dwelling housing units;
(2) Motels and hotels with four or more units not having doors from each guest room going directly to the outside or not having an employee on premises 24 hours each day;
(3) All buildings or structures which are three or more stories high;
(4) Buildings with fire alarm systems and/or fire suppression systems;
(5) All building with elevators;
(6) Buildings, other than commercial, the owner of which requests that the Police and/or Fire Department have a key;
(7) All building in commercial, highway service and industrial zoned area of the city for which a permit is required;
(8) Covered malls as defined in the Building Code;
(9) Buildings or sites containing hazardous materials;
(10) Schools;
(11) Public or government owned buildings; and
(12) Buildings, which are determined by the City Administrator or his or her designee to be difficult to access or those buildings having absentee landowners.
(B) All properties falling within the foregoing categories shall be required to have key boxes installed. The type and location of boxes must be approved by the City Administrator or his or her designee. Key boxes shall contain keys to gain access to the property as required by the City Administrator or his or her designee.
(C) All existing buildings, which fall into the above categories but are not in compliance with this section shall, within 12 months of written notification from the City Administrator or his or her designee, install a key box in compliance with this section.
(D) The Fire Department shall maintain a list of occupancies where key boxes are installed. The Department shall visit each site annually and open key boxes and notify landowners of any required maintenance.
(E) At any time a landowner changes the locks on a structure with a key box, the landowner shall notify the Fire Department of said key change. The Fire Department shall arrange a time to place a new master key in the lock boxes.
(F) Any building with a 24-hour, seven day-a-week guard service or personnel on duty who is awake within the interior of the site may be exempt from installation of a key box upon the approval of the City Administrator or his or her designee.
(Ord. 39, passed 10-4-2018) Penalty, see § 96.99