HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0516 - Fire Prevention Code (Repealed by Ord 592)CITY OF TUKWILA
WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO 516
REPEALED BY 592
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIFE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING
REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND
PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Tukwila as follows:
Section 1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code.
There is hereby adopted b=r the Tukwila City Council 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,
Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the American Insurance Association,
being particularly the 1965 edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and
except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended, 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 Tukwila and the same are hereby adopted and in-
corporated 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 con—
trolling within the limits of the City of Tukwila, King County, Washington.
Section 2. Enforcement
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire
Department.
Section 3. Definition
Wherever the word "Municipality's is used in the code hereby adopted,
it shall be held to mean the City of Tukwila.
Section 4. Modifications.
The Chief of the Fire Department shall have power to modify any of the
provisions of the code hereby adopted 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, pro-
vided 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 Chief or the Fire Department thereon shall be entered
upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
Section 5. 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 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 appealed.
Section 6. Penalaties
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
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 $300.00 or by imprisonment
for not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days or by both such fine and imprison—
ment. 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 9. 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 hereby repealed.
Section 10. 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 11, Date of Effect.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval
as required by law.
PASSED' by the City Council of the City of Tukwila, Washington, this
20th day of May, 1968.
APPROVED AS TO FORM
APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Tukwila, Washington this 20th day of
May, 1968.
MAYOR