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AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS
HAZARDOUS TO:LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OIL
EXPLOSION.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, of the
State of Tyxam:
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Section 1. ADOPTION OF FIRE PREVENTION CODE.
There is hereby adopted by the 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 (by section 5 of this ordinance),
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 Georgetown and the same are hereby
adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the
O'J date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof nhall
be controlling within the limits of the City of Georgetown.
Section 2. ENFORCEI ENT.
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire
Department.
Section 3. DEFINITION.
Whereever the word "Municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted,
it shall be held to mean the City of Georgetown.
Section 4. ESTABLISI111EVr OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH
STORAGE OF FLANINIABLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND TANKS,
BULK STORAGE OF I,IQTTTFIM PETROLFUTM GASES AND STORAGE OF
E)MLOSIVES AND BLASSTING AGENTS IS TO RE RESTRICTED.
The limits referred to in section 73 of the code hereby adoptdd in
which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited,
the limits referred to in section 103 of the code hereby adopted, in which bulk
storage of liquified -petroleum gas is restricted, and the limits referred
to in section 53 b of the code hereby adopted, in which storage of explosives
and blasting agents is prohibited, are hereby established as follows:
Section 5. 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, provided that the
spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial
justice done. The particulars of snch modification 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 appli-
cant.
Section 6. APPEALS.
Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an applica-
tion 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 imeconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal
from the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to Council within 30