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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN:-h/6 4 2 IV
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, ADOPTING THE
FIRE PREVENTION CODE, THE 1965 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,
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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 1965 edition thereof, save and except such portions as are herein-
after deleted, modified or amended (by section 5 of this ordinance) ,
of which code not less than three (3) copies have been and now are
filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of Jefferson, Missouri,
® and the same are 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. Said Fire
Prevention Code being as follows:
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 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.
Am 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 387 of the Revised
Ordinance of the City of Jefferson, Missouri, for 1956.
Section 5. Articles in the Fire Prevention Code not applicable.
Articles 16 and 21 of the Fire Prevention Code are deleted,
® it being the express intention of the City Council of the City of
Jefferson that the provisions of Ordinance No. 7616 shall govern
AL the matters covered therein.
Section 6. Modifications.
The Fire Inspector shall have power to modify any of the
provisions of the Fire Prevention Code upon application in writing
by the owner or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when there are
practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter
of the code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed,
public safety secured and substantial justice done. The particulars
of such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the
Fire Inspector thereon shall be entered upon the records of the fire
department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
Section 7. Appeals.
Whenever the Fire inspector shall disapprove an application
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.
Section S. New Materials, Processes or Occupancies Which May
Ask
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 9. 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 specifications or
plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or per-
mit 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 10. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances.
All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance or of the code
hereby adopted are caused to be repealed.
Section 11. Validity.
The City Council hereby declares that should any section,
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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 12. Date of Effect.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage and approval.
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P Approved:
Pr6siident Council a Wo
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C ty Clerk