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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0195_1884 Llaude bads, laity Secretary A AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE Olt EXPLOSION. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown of the State of Texas. 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 1967 Abbreviated 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 date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the City of Georgetown. SECTION 2. E'NFORCEWENT. The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire Department. SECTION 3. DEFINITION. Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the City of Georgetown. SECTION 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN WHICH STOILAGE OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS IN OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND TANKS, BULK STORAGE OF LIQUEFIED PET1tULEUM GASES AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS IS TO BE UESTRICTED. The limits referred to in section 73 of the code hereby adopted 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 liquefied 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 such 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 applicant.