Fire Code
Purpose | Enforcement | Definitions | Limits
Appeals | New Material | Penalties | Date and Effect
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Article 1. PURPOSE
6.1.1 Adoption of Uniform Fire Code. There is hereby adopted by the Pueblo West Metropolitan District for the purposes of proscribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire, hazardous materials, or explosion that certain Code known as the "Uniform Fire Code" including Appendices and Appendix Standards published by the International Fire Code Institute being particularly the 1997 edition thereof and the whole thereof, a copy of which has been and is now filed in the office of the Fire Chief of the Pueblo West etropolitan District and the same is hereby adopted as fully as if set out at length herein and from the date on which this resolution shall take effect the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the Pueblo West Metropolitan District.
Article 2. ENFORCEMENT.
6.2.1 The Uniform Fire Code is adopted herein and shall be enforced by the Fire Chief or the Fire Chief's designee of the Pueblo West Metropolitan District Fire Department.
6.2.2 The Fire Chief shall recommend to the District the employment of technical inspectors who, when such authorization is made, shall be selected based upon their fitness for the position.
Article 3. DEFINITIONS.
6.3.1 Wherever the word jurisdiction is used in the Uniform Fire Code, it is the Pueblo West Metropolitan District.
6.3.2 Where the party responsible for the enforcement of the Uniform Fire Code is given a title of Fire Marshall, the Fire Marshall shall be Fire Chief or the designee of the Fire Chief.
Article 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS AND AREAS FOR STORAGE OF FLAMMABLE OR COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVE GROUND TANKS, EXPLOSIVE AND BLASTING AGENTS, COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS, LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES, FLAMMABLE CRYOGENIC FLUIDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IS TO BE PROHIBITED OR LIMITED.
When it is referred to the appropriate sections of the Uniform Fire Code concerning the storage of the above referenced materials, for commercial uses, and such storage is restricted to areas designated as industrial areas and shall be approved by the Fire Chief or his designee.
Article 5. APPEALS.
Whenever the Chief or his designee disapprove an application or refuses 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 Directors of the Pueblo West Metropolitan District within 30 days from the date of the decision appealed.
Article 6. NEW MATERIALS, PROCESSES, OR OCCUPANCIES WHICH MAY REQUIRE PERMITS.
The District Manager and the Fire Chief shall act as a committee to determine and specify after giving effected persons an opportunity to be heard any new materials, processes, or occupancies for which permits are required in addition to those now enumerated in the Uniform Fire Code. The Fire Chief shall post such list in a conspicuous place at the Fire Department and distribute copies thereof to interested persons.
Article 7. PENALTIES.
6.7.1 Any person who violates any of the provisions of the Uniform Fire Code as adopted and amended herein or fails to comply therewith or who violates or fails to comply therewith, or who violates or fails to comply with any order made thereunder, or who builds 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 fails to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Board of Directors of the Pueblo West Metropolitan District or by a court of competent jurisdiction and within the required time 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 $100.00 nor more than $300.00. 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. Each day a violation is found shall constitute a separate offense.
6.7.2 The Board of Directors hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this Ordinance or the Uniform Fire Code as adopted herein be declared, for any reason, to be invalid it is the intent of the Board of Directors that it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance independent of the elimination here from of any such portion as may be declared invalid.
Article 8. DATE AND EFFECT.
This resolution shall take effect and the Uniform Fire Code as adopted herein shall be in force from and after its approval as required by law.
REVISED: 7/28/98
