ORDINANCE 964ORDINANCE NO. 964
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE "UNIFORM FIRE
CODE, 1976 EDITION, INCLUDING APPENDIXES
A, B, C, D, E, F AND G; REPEALING IN ITS
ENTIRETY CHAPTER 17.04 OF, AND ADDING
CHAPTER 17.04 TO, THE "EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL
CODE," WHICH CHAPTER RELATES TO THE FIRE
CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF F,L, SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLONS:
SECTION 1. Chanter 17.04 of the "E1 Segundo Municipal
Code" is repealed.
SECTION 2. Chapter 17.04 is added to the "El Segundo
Municipal Code" to read as follows:
CHAPTER 17.04
FIRE CODE
17.04.010 ESTABLISHED. The "Uniform Fire Code,
1976 Edition," including Appendixes A, B, C, D, E, F,
and G, promulgated and published by the Western Fire
Chiefs Association and the International Conference of
Building Officials of which Code not less than three
copies have been and are now filed in the office of the
City Clerk, are hereby adopted with the same force
and effect as though set out herein in full.
17.04.020 CHANGES AND ADDI'PIONS TO THE CODE. The
Uniform Fire Code is amended by changing, aiding and
deleting the articles, sections and portions of sections
designated in Sections 17.04.030 through 17.04.110.
17.04.030 SECTION 1.215 AMENDED. Section 1.215 is i
amended to read as follows:
APPEALS- -BOARD OF APPEALS.
Sec. 1.215. Whenever the Chief of the Fire Depart-
ment shall disapprove an application 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 misconstrued or
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wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the
decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to the
Board of Appeals within thirty days from the date of
the decision appealed.
There shall be and hereby is created a Board of
Appeals which shall consist of the City Council. The
Fire Chief shall be an ex- officio member of the Board;
the City Clerk shall act as Secretary of the Board.
The Board shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations
for conducting its hearings and shall render all deci-
sions and findings in writing to the Appellant with a
duplicate copy to the Fire Chief.
17.04.040 SECTION 1.216 AMENDED. Section 1.216 is
amended to read as follows:
COMPLIANCE WITH RECOGNIZED STANDARDS
Sec. 1.216. Whenever this Code is inapplicable for
any reason to any situation involving the protection of
persons and property from the hazards of fire and explo-
sion, the materials, methods of construction, installa-
tions, practices, or operations necessary to provide
such protections shall, to a reasonable degree, be in
accordance with nationally recognized and accepted
standards, principles and tests and generally recognized
and well established methods of fire prevention and
control, as set forth in the National Fire Codes,
Volumes 1 through 5 and Volumes 7 through 16, 1978
Edition, published by the National Fire Protection Asso-
ciation, a recognized national authority and technical
and scientific organization, which Volumes are adopted
by reference as part of this Code with the same force
and effect as though set out herein in full.
17.04.050 SECTION 1.423 DEFINITIONS AMENDED. The
definitions of Uniform Building Code, Uniform Mechanical
Code and Uniform Plumbing Code in Section 1.423 are
amended to read as follows:
UNIFORM BUILDING CODE shall mean the Code adopted
by Chapter 16.04 of the "El Segundo Municipal Code ", as
amended by said Chapter.
UNIFORM MECHANICAL CODE shall mean the Code adopted
by Chapter 16.16 of the "El Segundo Municipal Code ", as
amended by said Chapter.
UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE shall mean the Code adopted
by Chapter 16.12 of the "El Segundo Municipal Code ", as
amended by said Chapter.
17.04.060 SUBSECTION 13.302(b) AMENDED. Subsection
13.302(b) is amended to read as follows:
(b) The building owner shall be responsible for
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assuring that the fire and life safety systems required
by Sections 1807 and 1907 of the Uniform Building Code
shall be maintained in an operable condition at all
times. Unless otherwise required by the Chief, quarterly
tests of such systems shall be conducted and certified
by qualified persons approved by the Chief. A written
record of the tests shall be maintained by the occupant
and a copy of the certification forwarded to the Fire
Prevention Bureau.
17.04.070 SUBSECTION 13.307(a) AMENDED. Subsection
13.307(a) is amended to read as follows:
(a) Every apartment house three stories or more
in height or containing more than 15 apartments and
every hotel three stories or more in height containing
20 or more guest rooms, shall have installed therein
an approved automatic or manually operated fire alarm
system designed to warn the occupants of the building
in the event of fire. Such fire alarm system shall
be so designed that all occupants of the building may
be warned simultaneously.
17.04.080 SUBSECTIONS 15.704(g) AND (h) ADDED. Sub-
sections 15.704(g) and (h) are added to read as follows:
(g) Containers. Signs shall be prominently posted,
stating: PORTABLE CONTAINERS. No delivery of any flam-
mable or combustible liquids shall be made into portable
containers, unless such container is of material and
construction as approved by the Chief, having a tight
closure with screwed or spring cover, so designed that
the contents can be dispensed without spilling. Delivery
of any flammable or combustible liquid into any glass
container is prohibited.
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(h) Annual Permit. Self -serve service station ope-
rators are required to obtain an annual Fire Department
Permit for such self -serve operation; such annual Permit
fee shall be $15.00.
17.04.090 SECTION 20.110 AMENDED. Section 20.110
is amended to read as follows:
SMOKING AND OPEN FLAME DEVICES
Sec. 20.110(a) The Chief may require the posting of
"NO SMOKING" signs. No person shall smoke within 50 feet
of any LP gas container.
(b) No person shall install or maintain any open
flame device outside of buildings within 50 feet of any
LP gas container.
(c) No person shall install or maintain any LP
gas container within 50 feet of any open flame device.
17.04.100 ARTICLE 37 ADDED. Article 37 is added to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 37 - EXCLUSIONS
Sec. 37.101 FIRE ZONE NO. 4 EXCEPTED. The provisions
of this Uniform Fire Code shall not apply within Fire Zone
No. 4 of this city.
17.04.110 ARTICLE 38 ADDED. Article 38 is added to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 38 - ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS REGULATING
STORAGE OF FLAMMABLE OR COMBUSTIBLE LIQ-
UIDS, LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES, AND
EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS.
Sec. 38.101. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS
IN WHICH STORAGE OF FLAMMABLE OR COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS IN
OUTSIDE ABOVEGROUND TANKS IS TO BE PROHIBITED. (a) The
limits referred to in Section 15.201 of the Uniform Fire
Code in which storage of flammable or combustible liquids
in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, are hereby
established as follows: In all land use zones as described
in Title 20 (The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance) of the "E1
Segundo Municipal Code", except M -2 zoned areas. EXCEPTION:
The Fire Chief may approve storage in C -M or M -1 zoned areas.
(b) The limits referred to in Section 15.601 of the
Uniform Fire Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable
or combustible liquids are prohibited, are hereby estab-
lished as follows: All of the City except Fire Zone 4 as
described in Section 16.40.050 of the "El Segundo Municipal
Code ".
Sec. 38.102. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS IN
WHICH BULK STORAGE OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GASES IS TO BE
RESTRICTED. The limits referred to in Section 20.105 (a)
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of the Uniform Fire Code, in which bulk storage of
liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby estab-
lished as follows: In all land use zones within the
City as described in Title 20 (The Comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance) of the "El Segundo Municipal Code" except
M -2 zoned areas.
Sec. 38.103. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS OF DISTRICTS
IN WHICH STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING AGENTS IS
TO BE PROHIBITED. The limits referred to in Section
11.106 (b) of the Uniform Fire Code, in which storage
of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, are
hereby established as follows: In all land use zones
within the City as described in Title 20 (The Comprehen-
sive Zoning Ordinance) of the "El Segundo Municipal Code"
except by special permit granted by the Fire Chief."
SECTION 3. PENALTIES. (a) Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of this 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 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 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 for each and every such viola-
tion and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or impri-
sonment for a term not exceeding six months, or 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
otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited 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.
SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall
become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after
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the date of the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered
in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a
minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the
meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall within
fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the
same to be published once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated within
said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby designated for that
purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 21st day of
November , 1978.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
I
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, J
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, )
CiTY OF EL SEGUNDO
VALERIE A. BURROWES _ o a e City Clerk of tae City of El Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that the whole rumbe- of membe,s of the C :ty Ccurcif
of the said Ctty is five; that tihe foregoing ordinance, being O,dinance No,, 0964, o o 0
is a find, free and co -erect orlgira' of O +diaonce No,. 964 ..... of the soad City of El
Segundo, Caltfcrn'o, entitled-
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE "UNIFORM FIRE
CODE, 1976 EDITION, INCLUDING APPENDIXES
A, B, C, D, E, FAND G; REPEALING IN ITS
ENTIRETY CHAPTER 17.04 OF, AND ADDING
CHAPTER 17.04 TO, THE "EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL
CODE," WHICH CHAPTER RELATES TO THE FIRE CODE
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Ccurcul, opp -owed and signed
by the Mayor of sod C••:ty, and attested by the City Clerk of sold City, al; at a •egulw
meeting of the sold Courcil held on the .. ?Ilst „o „day ofNPYMm err.. ao Igo7Bepp
and that the same was so passed and adopted by ibe following Wore-
AYES- Councilmen, Benson, Bue, Nagel, Van Vranken and Mayor 9alme,,
NOES; Councilmen,,,None
ABSENT- Councilmen None
I do hereby f,, -+ea certify that punsuart to the provisions of Section 369.33 of the
Government Code of the State of Califor &io, That the foregoing Ordinance No,.964a o o.
was duly a,d regularly published according to low and the o -der of the City Ccunail
of said City' the El Segundo Herald, a weekly •,.e,spaper of gecerai ci- culatlon,
printed, published and circulated within the sold City and that the same was so pub-
fished therein . or the following date, to wig-
City Cletk•of 'he'
City cf 'El'
Segundo, California,
(SEAL)
Deputy