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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN:
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ORDINANCE NO._ a?�
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, ADOPTING THE
FIRE PREVENTION CODE, THE 1970 EDITION RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN
INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS
HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION, AND
PRESCRIBING ADDITIONAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE FIRE INSPECTOR
OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION
THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI,
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code.
There is hereby adopted by the City Council of the City
of Jefferson, Missouri, for the purpose of prescribing regulations
governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or
explosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code
recommended by the American Insurance Association, being particularly
the 1970 edition thereof, save and except such portions as are
hereinafter deleted, modified or amended, which code is filed in
the office of the Clerk of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, and
the same is hereby adopted, and from the date on which this
ordinance shall take effect the provisions thereof shall be
. controlling within the limits of the City of Jefferson, Missouri.
Section 2. Duties of Fire Inspector.
a. The Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Fire
Inspector of the City of Jefferson, Missouri.
b. The Fire Inspector may detail such members of the
fire department as inspectors as shall from time to time be
necessary. The Fire Inspector shall recommend to the Mayor the
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employment of technical inspectors, who, when such authorization
is made, shall be selected through an examination to determine
their fitness for the position. The examination shall be open
to members and non members of the fire department, and appointments
made after examination shall be for an indefinite term with
removal only for cause.
c. A report of the Fire Inspector shall be made annually
and transmitted to the chief executive officer of the municipality;
it shall contain all proceedings under this code, with such
statistics as the Fire Inspector may wish to include therein; the
Fire Inspector shall also recommend any amendments to the code
which, in his judgment, shall be desirable.
Section 3. Definitions.
a. Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the Fire
Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the City of Jefferson,
Missouri.
b. Wherever the term "Corporation Counsel" is used in
the Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the City Attorney
for the City of Jefferson, Missouri.
Section 4. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which Storage
of Explosives and Blasting Agents is to be Prohibited.
The limits referred to in section 12.5b of the Fire Pre-
vention Code, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is
prohibited, are those established by Section 487 of the Revised
Ordinance of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, for 1956.
Section 5. Appeals.
Whenever the Fire Inspector shall disapprove an applica-
tion or refuse to grant a permit applied for, or when it is
claimed that the provisions of the code do not apply or that the
true intent and meaning of the code have been misconstrued or
® wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision
of the Fire Inspector to the City Council within 30 days from the
date of the decision appealed.
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Section 6. New Materials, Processes or Occupancies Which May
Require Permits.
The Mayor, the Chief of the Fire Department and the
Fire Inspector shall act as a committee to determine and specify,
after giving affected persons an opportunity to be heard, any new
materials, processes or occupancies, which shall require permits,
in addition to those now enumerated in said code. The Fire
Inspector shall post such list in a conspicuous place in his
office, and distribute copies thereof to interested persons.
Section 7. Penalties.
a. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
�. of the code hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who
shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or
who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifi-
cations or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate
or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been
taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed
or modified by the City Council or by a court of competent
jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for
each and every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than
$25.00 nor more than $100.00 or by imprisonment for not less than
30 days nor more than 180 days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse
the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall
be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within
a. reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days
that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a
separate offense.
b. The application of the above penalty shall not be
held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
Section 8. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances.
All ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent
with the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted
are repealed.
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Section 9. validity.
The City Council hereby declares that should any section,
paragraph, sentence, or word of this ordinance or of the code
hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the
intent of the City Council that it would have passed all other
portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom
of any such portion as may be declared invalid.
Section 10. Date of Effect.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage and approval.all Aft
Passed: _ Approved:-F'Z:J:� 6
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Pre 7efit of the Council May
Attest:
C3,- Clerk
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