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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS
HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR
EXPLOSION, AND ESTABLISHING A BUREAU OF FIRE
PREVENTION AND PROVIDING OFFICERS THEREFOR
AND DEFINING THEIR POWEJ&S AND DUTIES.
The City Council of the City of Beaumont does ordain as
follows:
Section 1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code.
There is hereby adopted by the City of Beaumont for the purpos
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 National Board of Fire
Underwriters, being particularly the 1956 edition thereof and the
whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter
deleted, modified or amended(by section 6 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 Beaumont ans the
same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at
length herein, and from the date on which this ordinance shall take
effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the
limits of the City of Beaumont.
Section 2. Establishment and Duties of Bureau of Fire
Prevention.
a. The Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Bureau
of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the City of Beaumont
which is hereby established and which shall be operated under the
supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department.
b. The Chief in charge of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall
be appointed by the City Council on the basis of examination to
determine his qualifications. His appointment shall continue durin
good behavior and satisfactory service, and he shall not be removed
from office except for cause after public trial.
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c. TheChief of the Fire Dppartment may detail such members
of the fire department as inspectors as shall from time to time be
necessary. The Chief of the Fire Department shall recommend to the
City Council 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 pen 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.
d. A report of the Bureau of Fire Prevention 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 Chief of the Fire Department may wish
to include therein; the Chief of the Fire Department 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 Beaumont.
b. Wherever the term 'Corporation Counsel" is used in the
Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the City Attorney
of the City of Beaumont.
Section 4. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which
Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside Above-
ground Tanks is to be Prohibited.
a. The limits referred to in section 15.201 of the Fire
Prevention Code in which storage of flammable liquids in outside
above -ground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as
follows:
Zones C-1 & 2; R-1, 2 & 3.
b. The limits referred to in section 15.401 of the Fire
Prevention Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable liquids ar
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prohibited, are hereby established as follows:
Zones C-1 & 2; R-1, 2 & 3.&Modified M Zone.
Section 5. Establishment of Limits in which Bulk Storage of
Liquefied Petroleum Gases is to be Restricted.
The limits referred to in section 19.06a of the Fire Preventior,
Code, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted,
are hereby established as follows:
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Zones C-1 & 2; R-1, 2 & 3;.
Section 6. Modifications.
The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall have power
to modify any of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code upon
application in writing by the owner of 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 granteior
or allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department
and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
Section 7. Appeals.
Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department 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 Chief of the Fire Department to the City Council within 30 days
from the date of the decision of the appeal.
Section 8. New Materials, Processes or Occupancies which may
Require Permits.
The Mayor, the Chief of the Fire Department and the Chief of
the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall act as a committee to determine
and specify, after giving affected persons an opportunity to be
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heard, any new materials, processes or occupancies, which shall
require permits, in addition to those. now enumerated in said code.
The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention 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 vio-
late 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 takes, or
who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modi-
fied 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 more than $500.00 or by
more
imprisonment for not isss 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 con-
stitute a separate offense.
b. The application of the above penalty shall not be held to
prevent the dnforced removal of prohibited conditions.
Section 10. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances.
All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or incon-
sistent with the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby
adopted are hereby 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. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
the ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the
Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed,
published and circulated in the City of Beaumont, and this ordinanc
shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of January,1960
ayor o t o City o ont, Ca l ornia
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Beaumont, California
I, BERNICE CONINE, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont, Califor
nia, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and
read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City duly
held on the 30th day ofSeptember, 1959 , and that the
an adjourned
same was duly passed and adopted at / regulav meeting held on the
6th day of January,1960 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilman Figgins, Allen, Moore and Campbell.
NOES: Councilman None.
ABSENT: Councilman Nunez.
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City Clerk