CHAPTER 91: FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION
Section
General Provisions
   91.01   Adoption of Uniform Fire Code
   91.02   Enforcement
   91.03   Definition
   91.04   Appeals
   91.05   Fire limits established
   91.06   Determination of damage or decay
   91.07   Maintaining fire hydrants
   91.08   Open burning regulations
   91.09   Fireworks
Fire Prevention Regulations
   91.20   Storage of flammable liquids and liquefied petroleum gases
   91.21   Construction of buildings
   91.22   Nuisances buildings within fire limits
   91.23   Parapet firewalls
   91.24   Wooden buildings and combustible materials
   91.25   Stacking of inflammable materials
   91.26   Furnaces and stoves
   91.27   Chimneys and flues
   91.28   Exits in public halls
 
   91.99   Penalty
Cross-reference:
   Volunteer Fire Department, see 31.35
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 91.01 ADOPTION OF UNIFORM FIRE CODE.
   There is adopted by the city for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire, hazardous materials, or explosions that certain code and standards known as the Uniform Fire Code and standards published by Western Fire Chiefs Association and the International Conference of Building Officials, being particularly the 1997 edition thereof, and the National Fire Codes incorporated as fully as if set out in length in this chapter. For the date on which the ordinances codified in the chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the city limits. Should any provisions of the Uniform Fire Code be in conflict with the provisions of the National Fire Code, the more strict code shall apply.
(Prior Code, § 8.08.010)
§ 91.02 ENFORCEMENT.
   The Uniform Fire Code shall be enforced by the Fire Department under the direction of the Fire Chief.
(Prior Code, § 8.08.020)
§ 91.03 DEFINITION.
   Whenever the word MUNICIPALITY is used in the Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the city.
(Prior Code, § 8.08.030)
§ 91.04 APPEALS.
   Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a license or permit applied for or when it is claimed that the provisions of the code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to the City Council within 30 days for the date of the decision of the appeal.
(Prior Code, § 8.08.050)
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