HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1016 - 1976 Uniform Fire Code (Repealed by Ord 1155)ORDINANCE NO 1016
REPEALED BY 1155
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING, BY REFERENCE, THE UNIFORM FIRE
CODE, 1976 EDITION, TOGETHER WITH SUBSEQUENT ADDITIONS,
REVISIONS AND AMENDMENTS AND APPENDICES A, B, C, D, E,
F, G, WITH EXCEPTIONS STATED HEREIN, AS A PART OF THE
FIRE PREVENTION CODE OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA (CHAPTER 16.16
OF THE TUKWILA MUNICIPAL CODE), AND REPEALING ORDINANCE #816.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS
Section 1. ADOPTION OF THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE.
There is hereby adopted by the City Council of the City of Tukwila,
Washington, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions
hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain Code
known as the Uniform Fire Code, recommended by the Western Fire Chiefs
Association and the International Conference of Building Officials, being
particularly the 1976 edition thereof and the whole thereof including
subsequent additions, revisions and amendments, save and except such
portions as are hereafter deleted, modified or amended by Sections 4, 5,
6, and 7 of this Ordinance, of which Code not less than three (3) copies
have been and are now filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of
Tukwila, Washington, and 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 provision thereof shall be controlling
within the limits of the City of Tukwila, Washington.
Section 2. ESTABLISHING THE DUTIES OF THE BUREAU OF FIRE PREVENTION
(a) The Uniform Fire Code shall be enforced by the Bureau of
Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the City of Tukwila, Washington,
which is operated under the supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department.
(b) The Chief of the Fire Department may detail such members of
the Fire Department as inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary.
Section 3. DEFINITIONS.
(a) Wherever the word "jurisdiction" is used in the Uniform
Fire Code, it shall be held to mean the Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention who shall also be known as the "Fire Marshal".
(b) Wherever the term "Corporation Counsel" is used in the
Uniform Fire Code, it shall be held to mean the attorney for the City of
Tukwila, Washington.
Section 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STORAGE
OF FLAMMABLE OR COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVE
GROUND TANKS IS TO BE PROHIBITED.
(a) The limits referred to in Section 15.201 of the Uniform Fire
Code in which storage of flammable or combustible liquids in outside above-
ground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: R- 1 -7.2,
R- 1 -9.6, R -1 -12.0, R- 2 -8.4, R -3, R- 3 -6.0, R -4, R -A, CPR, C -1, Pr, RMH,
C -2, C -M (Classifications per Ordinance #251.) However, the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention may issue a special permit for aboveground storage
where, in his judgment, there is no undue dnager to persons or property as a
result of explosion or fire.
(b) The limits referred to in Section 15.601 of the Uniform Fire
Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable or combustible liquids are
prohibited, are hereby established as follows: R- 1 -7.2, R- 1 -9.6, R -1 -12.0,
R- 2 -8.4, R -3, R- 3 -6.0, R -4, R -A, CPR, C -1, PF, RMH, C -2, C -M, M -1, M -2,
(Classifications per Ordinance #251.) However, the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention may issue a special permit where, in his judgment, there
is no undue danger to persons or property as a result of explosion or fire.
Section 5. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS IN WHICH BULK STORAGE OF
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES IS TO BE RESTRICTED.
The limits referred to in Section 20.105 (a) of the Uniform Fire
Code, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, are
hereby established as follows: R- 1 -7.2, R- 1 -9.6, R -1 -12.0, R- 2 -8.4, R -3,
R- 3 -6.0, R -4, R -A, CPR, C -1, PF, RMH, C -2, C -M, (Classifications per
Ordinance #251.) However, the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may
issue a special permit where, in his judgment, there is no undue danger
to persons or property as a result of explosion or fire.
Section 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STORAGE
OF EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS IS TO BE PROHIBITED.
The limits referred to in Section 11.106(b) of the Uniform Fire
Code, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, are
hereby established as follows: R- 1 -7.2, R- 1 -9.6, R -1 -12.0, R- 2 -8.4, R -3,
R- 3 -6.0, R -4, R -A, CPR, C -1, PF, RMH, C -2, C -M, M -1, M -2, (Classification per
Ordinance #251). However, the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may
issue a special permit for such storage where, in his judgment, there is no
undue danger to persons or property as a result of explosion or fire.
Section 7. AMENDMENTS MADE IN THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE.
The Uniform Fire Code is amended and changed in the following
respects: Section 15.709 is amended to read:
SAFETY RULES
Sec. 15.709. (a) There shall be no smoking or open
flames in the areas used for fueling, servicing internal
combustion engines, receiving or dispensing of flammable
or combustible liquids. A conspicuous sign prohibiting
smoking shall be posted within sight of each customer being
served. Letters on such signs shall be not less than 4 inches
high. The motors of all vehicles being fueled shall be
shut off during the fueling operations.
(b) Extinguishers of a minimum classification of
20 B:C, shall be provided and so located that no pump,
dispenser or fill -pipe opening shall be a greater distance
than 75 feet from such extinguisher.
Section 10.113 is amended to read:
SIGNS AND ILLUMINATION
Sec. 10.113. (a) Exit illumination. Exits shall be
illuminated at any time the building is occupied with light
having an intensity of not less than one foot candle at floor
level.
EXCEPTION: Group R, Division 3 Occupancies.
Exit illumination shall be maintained with separate
circuits or separate sources of power (but not necessarily
separate from exit signs) when these are required for
exit sign illumination.
(b) Exit Signs. At every required exit doorway
and wherever otherwise required to clearly indicate
the direction of egress, an exit sign with letters at
least 6 inches high and readily distinguishable shall be
maintained from all areas serving the occupant load
specified in this Subsection. In interior stairways the
floor level leading directly to the exterior shall be
clearly indicated.
Group A, Division 1 occupancies and Group A,
Division 2, 2.1, 3 and 4 occupancies, Group I and R,
Division 1 occupancies with an occupant load of more than
50.
All other occupancies serving an occupant load of
more than 100.
EXCEPTION: Main exterior exit doors which
obviously and clearly are identifiable as
exits need not be sign posted when approved
by the Building Official.
(c) Illumination of Signs. Exit signs serving the
occupant loads specified in this Subsection shall be lighted
and maintained with two electric lamps of not less than 15
watts each in the following manner:
1. Two separate sources of supply shall be maintained
for the following occupancies:
(i) Group A, Division 1 occupancies and Group A,
Divisions 2 and 2.1 occupancies with an
occupant load of more than 500 persons except
churches with an occupant load of less than
750 persons.
Group I Occupancies with an occupant load
over 100 persons
2. Separate circuits, one of which shall be separated
from all other circuits in the building and independently
controlled, shall be maintained for the following occupancies:
(i) Groups A, B, and E Occupancies with an occupant
load over 300 persons.
(ii) Groups H and R, Division 1 Occupancies with
an occupant load over 100 persons.
(iii) Group I Occupancies with an occupant load over
50 persons.
Section 8. APPEALS
Whenever the Chief 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 to the Board of Appeals established in Section 1.215
of this Code within 30 days from the date of the decision appealed.
Section 9. NEW MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR OCCUPANCIES
WHICH MAY REQUIRE PERMITS.
The Building Official, the Chief 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 heard, any new materials, processes or
occupancies, which may 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 10. PENALTIES
(a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this
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 Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed
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therein, shall severally for each and every such violation and non compliance
respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less
than one day nor more than ninety 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 11. CONFLICT WITH EXISTING CODES AND ORDINANCES
Where items in the Uniform Fire Code conflict with like items in
other adopted ordinances or codes, the item that provides the greater or
most effective protection shall apply.
Section 12. VALIDITY
The City Council of the City of Tukwila, Washington, 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 13. REPEALER
The following Ordinance is hereby repealed in its entirety:
Ordinance No. 816, adopted October 23, 1973.
Section 14. PERMITS REQUIRED
Permits required by this Code shall be valid for the calendar
year in which they are issued. An annual fee of $5.00 for each permit shall
be made payable to the City Treasurer of the City of Tukwila, Washington.
Section 15. WELDING AND CUTTING OPERATIONS PERMITS.
There is hereby added to Chapter 31 a new section to be known
as Section 31.114 to read as follows: "Section 31.114 WELDING AND
CUTTING PERMITS REQUIRED."
(a) A permit shall be required of each company, corporation, co-
partnership or owner operator performing welding or cutting operations except
as provided in Section 31.114B. This permit shall not be required for each
welding or cutting job location. The company, corporation, co- partnership or
owner operator shall notify the Bureau of Fire Prevention in advance where such
work is taking place, except where such work is done in response to an
emergency call that does not allow time for the Bureau of Fire Prevention
to be notified in advance of the work.
(b) A permit shall not be required of any company, corporation,
co- partnership or owner operator:
1. Having an approved permit system established for
control of the fire hazards involved.
(c) Application for a permit required by this Article shall be
made by the company, corporation, co- partnership or owner operator performing
the welding or cutting operation or by his duly authorized agent.
(d) A permit for welding or cutting operations shall not be issued
unless the individuals in charge of performing such operations are capable of
doing such work in a safe manner. Demonstration of a working knowledge of
the provisions of the adopted codes and standards governing cutting and welding
operations shall constitute acceptable evidence of compliance with this
requirement.
(e) Companies, corporations, co- partnerships and owner operators
required to have a permit shall maintain a record of all locations where
welding or cutting operations are performed and have it available for inspection
by the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
Section 16. 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 AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this e t
day of %Woc.Ai 1977.
City Attorney
Published:
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Approved as to Form:
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Edgar D. Bauch, Mayor
Tukwila City Council
14475 59th Ave. South
Tukwila, WA 98168
Ladies and Gentlemen:
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CITY or TUKWILA
14475 59TH AVENUE SOUTH
TUKWILA, WASHINGTON 98067
May 12, 1977
I have allowed Ordinance No. 1015, passed by the Council on May 2, 1977,
concerning the drinking of alcoholic beverages in public places, to become
law without my approval.
Essentially, the Ordinance was intended to cope with an anticipated
problem at Fort Dent Athletic Facility. In my opinion, the solution,
which bands alcoholic consumption at Tukwila City Parks,was an
overkill and disservice to the residents who use our parks for picnics
and family outings.
The rapid introduction and passage of this Ordinance did not afford me
the opportunity to present a report or recommendation on the situation.
In my coordination with the Recreation, Police, and Park Maintenance
Departments, I can find no compelling reason to change the present law.
In fact, the Police Department feels that the new law presents serious
enforcement problems. My research indicates that the TMC was amended
to its present language due to enforcement problems. Strict enforcement
of the new Ordinance is unrealistic,and I do not look favorably on any
sort of a tolerance policy.
Members of the staff have made contact with the managers of Fort Dent
and have scheduled meetings to explore all facets of the operation.
I would expect that recommendations would come from the these meetings.
I would strongly recommend that the Council reconsider its actions on
Ordinance No. 1015. If the Council so desires,an administrative recommenda-
tion could be presented to you before the June 6 regular meeting.
Sincerely yours, 3
Edgar D. Bauch
Mayor