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Home My Public Portal AboutOrdinance 63-100ORDINANCE NO. 63 -100 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY AMENDING THE TEMPLE CITY MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS RELATING TO THE BUILDING CODE TO BRING THE TEMPLE CITY BUILDING CODE UP TO CUR- RENT PROVISIONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUILD- ING CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 8100 of the Temple City Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Section 8100 is hereby added to the Temple City Municipal Code to redd as follows: "8100. Except as hereinafter provided that certain building code known and designated as the Los Angeles County Building Code, 1962 Edition, as published in the 1962 Edition of the Los Angeles County Building Laws, pages 19 through 435 inclusive, and such code shall be and become the Building Code of the City of Temple City, regulating the erection, construc- tion, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, removal, demo- lition, conversion, occupancy, use, height, area, maintenance of all structures and certain equipment therein specifically regulated and grading within the City of Temple City, and pro- viding for the issuance of permits and the collection of fees therefor, providing penalties for violation of such code, de- claring and establishing fire zones. Three copies of said Los Angeles County Building Laws have been deposited in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Temple City, and shall be at all times maintained by said clerk for use and examination by the public." SECTION 3. Section 8100.5 is hereby added to the Temple City Municipal Code to read as follows: "8100.5. No fee shall be required for the issuance of a permit to build a structure designed and used exclusively as an emergency fallout shelter." SECTION 4. Section 8101 of the Temple City Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. Section 8101 is hereby added to the Temple City Municipal Code to read as follows: ".8101. Whenever any of the following names or terms are used in said Los Angeles County Building Code or in this ordinance, each such name or term shall be deemed and construed to have the meaning ascribed to it in this section as follows: "Building Department" shall mean the "Building and Safety Division" of the Department of County Engineer. "Building Official" shall mean County Engineer of the County of Los Angeles. "City" shall mean the City of Temple City except in Section 103 of said Building Code. 1 241 "County," "County of Los Angeles" or "unincorporated' territory of the County of Los Angeles" shall mean the City of Temple City. "General Funds" shall mean the City Treasury of the City of Temple City. "Health Officer" shall mean the Health Officer of the City of Temple City. "Ordinance No. 7583, an ordinance adopting a Health Code" shall mean The City Health Ordinance of the City of Temple City." SECTION 6. Sections 8101.1, 8101.2, 8101.3, 8101.4 and 8101.5 are hereby added to the Temple City Municipal Code to read as follows: "8101.1 Section 207 of the said Los Angeles County Building Code is amended to read: "Section 207. Rehabilitation Board. In order to hear appeals provided for in Chapter 99 regarding substandard buildings the City Council shall sit as the Rehabilitation Board. Hearings for demolition or repair of substandard build- ings shall be heard by the City Council sitting as the Rehabili- tation Board. The City Council shall render a written decision to the Building Official with a duplicate copy to the Appellant and the City Council shall take such action in the adoption of new legislation as shall be consistent with its decision." "8101.2. Section 208 of the Building Code of the City of Temple City shall read as follows: "Section 208 (a) Compliance with Code. A person shall not erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, im- prove, remove, convert, demolish, equip, use, occupy or main- tain any building or structure or perform any grading in the City, or cause the same to be done, contrary to, or in violation of any of the provisions of this Code. (b) Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation vio- lating any of the provisions of this Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this Code is committed, continued or permitted, and upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be punishable by a fine or not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment." "8101.3. Said Los Angeles County Building Code is amended by deleting Section 307 therefrom." "8101.4. Section 5105(f) of said Los Angeles County Building Code is amended by deleting paragraphs 4 and 5 there- from." "8101.5. Section 5109 of said Los Angeles County Building Code is amended to read as follows: "Section 5109. Miscellaneous Domestic Appliances. (a) Clearances. 1. Vertical clearance above cooking top. Domestic 2 242 free-standing or built -in ranges shall have vertical clearance above the cooking top of not less than thirty inches (30 ") to combustible material or metal cabinets. When the underside of such combustible material or metal cabinets is protected with asbestos millboard at least one - fourth inch (1/4 ") thick covered with sheet metal of not less than No. 28 U. S. gauge, the distance shall be not less than twenty -four inches (24 "). The protection shall extend nine inches (9 ") beyond the sides of the range. When combustible material or metal cabinets above the cooking top of domestic free- standing or built -in ranges are protected by a metal ventilating hood, the top of which is more than twenty -four inches (24 ") above the cooking top and is insu- lated with at least one- fourth inch (1/4 ") thick asbestos mill - board, such protection need not extend beyond the sides of the range. 2. Horizontal clearance of built -in top cooking units. Minimum horizontal distance from the center of the burner head(s) of a top (or surface) cooking unit to vertical combusti- ble walls extending above the top panel shall be not less than that distance specified by the permanent marking on the unit. (b) Ranges and Hot Plates. Ranges or hot plates shall not be installed in rooms intended to be used for sleeping purposes. (c) Kitchen Ventilation. There shall be installed in the wall or ceiling, approximately over the cooking facilities; a ventilating opening with a minimum area of eight inches. by six inches (8 "x 6 "), connected >'by an incombustible ventilating duct to the outside of the building.'- The ventilating duct for each kitchen-shall have a minimum "cross-sectional area of twenty - eight- square inches (28 sq. in;. )-. An approved forced -draft system of ventilation 'may be substituted for the natural -draft ventilating system. Combination -type gas aril solid-fuel ranges and trash- burner ranges must be vented to a Type A,, chimney constructed in accord- ance with the provisions of this Chapter, for use by trash bur- ners. Solid -top -type gas' ranges and .built -in gas circulator - type ranges shall be' vented to ,an approved Ty",pe: B gas vent or Type A chimney. Gas ranges having a griddle „and - open -type top burners are not cla,ssed' as s?o1id 7top ranges.' (d) Domestic Clothes Dryers,,. .1. 'Prohibited locations. Clothes dryers shall not be instal -led in bathrooms or rooms used for sleeping purposes. 2. Moisture exhaust ducts. Where clothes dryer is con - nected to a moisture exhaust duct it shall be installed in ac- cordance with manufacturer's instructions and recommendations. • A...clothe.s dryer moisture exhaust duct shall not be connect- ed into any Vent connector,' gas vent, or chimney. Ducts fpr exhausting clothes dryers shall not be put to- gether with sheet metal screws or other fastening means' which extend into the duct, In no case shall the moisture exhaust terminate beneath the building or in the attic area." PASSED and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of 243 Temple City at a regular meeting thereof held this 25th day of February , 1963 , by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dickason, Fitzjohn, Merritt, Nunamaker, Tyrell NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None ATTEST: Clerk of the City of Tem City, California Mayor of Californi City of Temple City, STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss CITY OF TEMPLE CITY ) I, Marjorie A. Woodruff, Deputy City Clerk, do hereby certify that have been appointed Deputy City Clerk of the City of Temple City, Calif- ornia, and that the foregoing Ordinance No. 63 -100 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 11th day of February, 1963, and adopted:on the 25th day of February, 1963, at a regular meeting of the City Council, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmen- Dickason, Fitzjohn, Merritt, Nunamaker, Tyrell NOES: Councilmen -None ABSENT: Councilmen -None Dated: February 25, 1963 1 J Deputy /City Clerk of t e Tempi, City, California 4 of 244