Ordinance - 315ORDINANCE NO.315
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, 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 POWERS AND DUTIES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS;
SECTION
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ADOPTION OF
FIRE PREVENTION
CODE. There is
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hereby adopted by
the
City of West
Covina 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
recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being parti-
cularly the 1953 edition thereof and the whole thereof, 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 West Covina 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 provisions
thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the City of West
Covina.
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 Firer Department of the City of West
Covina,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 during
good behavior and satisfactory service, and he shall not be removed
from office except for cause.
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(c) The Chief of the Fire Department 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 examin-
ation shall be open 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.
SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS. Wherever the word "Municipality"
is used in the Fire Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean the
City of West Covina.
SECTION . ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH
STORAGE OF FLA14MABLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND 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
aboveground tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as follows:
any area of the City except that specifically designated under the
provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of West Covina as
Zone M-1.
• (b) The limits referred to in section 15,401 of the Fire
Prevention Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable liquids are
prohibited, are hereby established as follows: any area of the City
except that specifically designated under the provisions of the
Zoning Ordinance of the City of West Covina as Zone M-1.
SECTION 5. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS IN WHICH BULK STORAGE
OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES IS TO BE RESTRICTED. The limits referred
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to in section 20.06a of the Fire Prevention Code, in which bulk
storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby
established as.follows: the entire area of the City of West Covina.
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
• or 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 granted or allowed and the decision of the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention 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
license or permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the pro-
visions 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 thirty (30) days from the date
of the decision of the appeal.
SECTION 8. NEW MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR OCCUPANCIES, WHICH
MAY REQUIRE PERMITS. The City Administrator, 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
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an opportunity to be 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.(akny person who shall violate
any of the provisions of the ",.ode 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 there-
under, 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
fo 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 imprisonment for not more than six monthsor 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 other-
wise specified, each ten days that prohibited conditions are main-
tained 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 10. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. All
former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with
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the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 11. AMENDMENTS MADE IN THE FIRE PREVENTION CODE.
The Fire Prevention Code -is amended and changed in the following respects:
Sections 12.01 to 12.06 inclusive, are deleted.
SECTION 12. 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 1., DATE OF"'EFFECT.;,This ::Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after . the date , of its approval as required by law.
SECTION 14. ENACTING CLAUSE. The City Clerk shall certify to
the adoption of this.Or.dinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen
(15) days from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be posted
with the names of the members voting for and against the same in three
places within the City, in the manner required by the laws and ordi-
nances in the City of West Covina, and thirty (30) days from and after
the passage thereof said Or
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r of the City of West Covina
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of West Covina, held
on the 24th day of May, 1954, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to wit:
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AYES: Councilmen TAMES W. KAY BERT C. VAN HORN J. CAL SPERLINE JAY D. BROWN
JOE HURST, MAYOR
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ABSENT: Al d Ne
City Clerk of the City of West Covina
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY, OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
ROBERT FLOTTEN, being by me first duly sworn, deposes and
says: That he is the City Clerk of the City of West Covina,California;
a citizen of the United States, and over the age of 21 years; that
on the s�day of May, 1954, he posted three copies of Ordinance No.
315 of the City of West Covina, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,CALIFORNIA,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 POWERS
AND DUTIES", in three public places in said City, to wit: One at the
Police Office, 1444 West Garvey Boulevard, one in front of the West
Covina School House, and one at the northwest corner of Puente Street
and Lark Ellen Boulevard.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
CAvh e
this - day of klnW, 1954.
Notmy Public in and f r the County
of Los Angeles, -State of California
ify 00i iMli Eli -9tPh s Angust 12.1956
City Clerk
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