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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances (O-70-07)-08/11/1970 VOLUME r PAGE' /3 / ~ ORDINANCE NO. 0-70-7 "! '/ I fir r I ' AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION AND DECLARING AN EMERG ENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION I. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code There is hereby adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Colleyville, Texas, for the purpose of prescribing regulations govern- ing 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, and from the date on which this Ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the Town of Colleyville. SECTION II. Enforcement The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire Department. SECTION ilr. Definition Wherever the word IlMunicipalityll is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the TOINll of Colleyville, Texas. SECTION IV. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which Storage of Explosives and Blasting Agents, Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside Aboveground Tanks, and Bulk Storage of Liquefied Petroleum Gases is to be Restricted The limits referred to in Section 53b of the code hereby adopted, in which storage of explosives and blasting agrents is prohibited, the limits referred to in Section 74a of the code hereby adopted in which storage of Class I liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, and the limits referred to in Section 114 of the code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted are hereby esta- blished as follows: The Town Limits of the Town of Colleyville ORDINANCE NUMBER 0-70-7 '. VOLUME I PAGE /f SECTION V. 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 th e code, provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done. The particulars of such modifications when granted or allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant. SECTION VI. Appeals \i\lhenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a permit applied for, or when it is claim- ed 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 Depart- ment to Town Council of the Town of Colleyville within thirty (30) days from the date of the decision appealed. SECTION VII. Penalities 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 ci specifications or plans sub- mitted 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 Town of Colleyville, Texas, 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, punish- able by a fine of not less than FIVE AND NO/100 ($5.00) DOLLARS nor more than TWO HUNDRED AND NO/100 ($200.00) DOLLARS. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the viola- tion 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 (10) days that pro- hibited 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. SEC TION VIII. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances All former Ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of thi s Ordinance or of the code hereby adopted are hereby repealed. ! VOLUME r :rAGE I~ - SECTION IX. Validity The Town Council of the Town of Colleyville 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 Tcwn 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 X. Date of Effect This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval as required by law. SECTION XI. Emergency Due to 1he necessity of the above Ordinance of the Fire J?revention Code, prescribing regulations, establishing a Bureau and defining their powers and duties, and due to the fact that time is of the essence and that such controls are needed immediately, an emergency is declared in order that this Ordinance may take effect upon approval of the Town Council on first reading and after publication as prescribed by law. PAST, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 11.:: day of -1\l.l~,,'lrr , 1970, by a vote of --5- Councilmen for and -.0_ Councilmen against. MAYOR ATTEST: ~~;'{~~ TO SECRE Y APPROVED AS TO LEGALITY A FORM '~/ ATTOR Y