The Ohio Fire Code as adopted herein is hereby amended in the manner respectively indicated:
(a) Applied Meaning of Words and Terms. "Approved" when applied to materials, types of construction, appliances, procedures, transportation or occupancy, means approved by the Bureau of Fire Prevention, as a result of investigations and tests conducted by it or by reason of accepted principles or tests made by the National Fire Protection Association; the Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Incorporated; the Underwriters' Laboratories, Incorporated; the Factory Mutual System; the National Fire Codes, 1993 edition; or the United States Bureau of Standards.
(b) Required Posting of Fire Emergency Procedures. There shall be posted in a conspicuous place, under glass or rigid plastic in each residential unit of all multi-family buildings equipped with a fire alarm system a fire emergency procedure. The fire emergency procedure shall be issued by the University Heights Fire Prevention Bureau and it will be the responsibility of the building owner, manager or agent to post these procedures under glass or clear rigid plastic in a conspicuous place in each residential unit within thirty days after receipt of these procedures.
(c) Outdoor Grills. No person shall kindle or maintain a fire to be used for the preparation of food in any type of outdoor or portable grill in any apartment or on any apartment house balcony, or within 15 feet of any structure housing mare than three families. Any type of outdoor or portable grill in one, two or three family dwelling units shall have five feet minimum clearance from any structure or shall be placed any greater distance in accordance with manufacturer's instructions.
(d) Electrical Equipment Sales.
(1) Sale limitations. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale within the City any electrical materials, equipment, fixtures, appliances or devices which do not bear an Underwriters' Laboratories or Factory Mutual seal of approval, or which has been declared by the Fire Chief or an inspector for the Bureau of Fire Prevention of the City to be unsafe for use because of design, construction, wiring or assembly.
(2) Inspection; notice. The Fire Chief or an inspector for the Bureau of Fire Prevention is hereby authorized to inspect any and all electrical materials, equipment, fixtures, appliances or devices sold or offered or exposed for sale within this City and to determine whether the same are safe or unsafe for use because of design, construction, wiring or assembly. If he or she finds any such material unsafe, he or she shall give notice of the finding to the person selling or offering or exposing the same for sale and no such person shall be guilty of violation of this section unless such written notice shall be given to him or her or to his or her employer or to the person in charge of the place where the article is sold, offered or exposed for sale.
(e) Handling Readily Combustible Materials.
(1) No person making, using, storing or having in charge or under his or her control, any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter, hay, straw, or combustible waste materials shall fail or neglect at the close of each day to cause all such material which is not compactly baled and stacked in an orderly manner to be removed from the building or stored in suitable vaults or in metal lined, covered, receptacles or bins. The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall require suitable baling process to be installed in stores, apartment buildings, factories and similar places where accumulations of paper and waste materials are not removed at least every second day.
(2) In all multiple-family homes and apartments where storage is permitted in lockers or storage rooms, there shall be a clearance of at least eighteen inches between the top of material stored and the underside of the lowest beams, girders, sprinkle deflectors and other ceiling obstruction which might restrict the discharge of water from sprinklers; or fire hose streams over this material.
(3) In all multiple-family homes and apartments where individual furnace rooms are maintained, the storage of combustible materials, or flammable liquids is not permitted.
(f) Manual Fire Alarm Systems in Apartment Buildings. An approved manual fire alarm system shall be installed in all apartment buildings containing twelve or more apartment units, and over one story in height. Such system shall be installed in accordance with NFPA Standard 72.
(g) Lighting.
(1) Each room, hall, area, space or auditorium having a capacity of fifty persons or more, and each place of business, place of assembly, open to the public at any time from sunset to sunrise, and each apartment house shall be provided with emergency lighting and so located and supplied with electrical energy as to provide, with an electrical power failure, emergency illumination without appreciable delay. Such illumination shall consist of one or more of the following:
A. An emergency lighting system so designed as to automatically provide the illumination required in this section in the event of failure of normal power due to any fault in the system, or to any failure of the public utility or other outside electric power supply or any manual act such as accidental opening of a switch controlling normal power facilities. Such emergency lighting system shall be either continuous in operation or capable of repeated automatic operation without manual intervention and may be provided by any method or combination of methods which will produce the desired results.
B. Two or more separate and complete systems with independent current supply, each providing emergency lighting. Unless both systems are kept lighted, means shall be provided for automatically lighting each system upon failure of the other.
C. Any other installation approved as adequate for the purpose of this section in the manner required by this Code. All emergency lighting systems shall be maintained in a serviceable and operating condition.
D. Existing buildings shall comply within one year from the date this Fire Prevention Code is adopted.
(h) Districts in Which Storage of Explosives and Blasting Agents are Prohibited. The limits referred to in Section F2601.2, in which storage of explosive and blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: the boundaries of the City.
(i) Districts in Which Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside Above-Ground Tanks are Prohibited. The limits in which storage of flammable liquids in outside above-ground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: the boundaries of the City. A temporary permit may be issued for above-ground storage at construction sites.
(j) Routes for Vehicles Transporting Hazardous Chemicals or Other Dangerous Articles. The routes for vehicles transporting hazardous chemicals or other dangerous articles, are hereby established as follows: State and Interstate routes. A permit must be obtained from the Fire Prevention Bureau to transport hazardous chemicals or other dangerous articles on any other street in the City.
(k) Districts in Which Bulk Storage of Liquefied Petroleum Gases are Restricted. The limits in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted are hereby established as follows: the boundaries of the City. (See Ohio Fire Code Art. 36. (1301:7-7-36), 1995 edition.)
(l) Fire Department Siamese Connection. The Fire Department siamese connection must be located within 100 feet of a fire hydrant and within 50 feet of a minimum 18 foot wide paved driveway or public way.
(m) NFPA Standards. National Fire Protection Association Standards for compliance with the provisions of this section are:
Standard No. Title
13-D 13R Installation of Sprinkler Systems
14 Installation of Standpipes and Hose Systems
70 National Electrical Code
70B Electrical Equipment Maintenance
70E Electrical Safety Requirements for Employees Workplace
72 National Fire Alarm Code
Standard No. Title
73 Residential Electrical Maintenance
90A Air Conditioning and Ventilating Systems
122I Public Fire Service Communication