§ 24.24. Additions to NFPA 1, Chapter 10 General Fire Safety.

NFPA 1, Chapter 10 is adopted in its entirety with the following additions:

(a)

Add to Section 10.1.

(1)

Spread of Fire. No person shall permit any fire to spread so as to endanger life or property or use or operate any device which may be a source of ignition unless proper removal of flammable or combustible material surrounding the operation is accomplished or such other reasonable precautions are taken to ensure against the starting and spreading of unwanted fires.

(2)

Maintaining a Fire Hazard. No person shall maintain a fire hazard.

(b)

Add to Section 10.2.

Responsibility to Prevent Overcrowding. The owner, operator, or person in charge of the premises shall be responsible for preventing overcrowding.

(1)

Signs approved by the AHJ stating the maximum occupant content shall be conspicuously posted and maintained by the owner of the building in each assembly room, auditorium, or room used for a similar purpose where fixed seats are not installed. It shall be unlawful to remove or deface such notice.

(2)

No person shall fail to leave any premises which are overcrowded when told to do so by the management of the premises, the AHJ, or any authorized enforcement officer.

(3)

The official maximum occupant content shall be established by the AHJ.

(4)

Crowd Managers Assembly occupancies with at least 50 people shall provide a minimum of one trained crowd manager or when the occupant load exceeds 250 people, the establishment must provide additional trained crowd managers or crowd supervisors at a ratio of one for every 250 occupants.

(5)

Obstruction of Aisles and Passageways. No person shall block, impede, or obstruct any aisle, passageway, hallway, lobby, foyer, or stairway leading to or from any entrance or exit which is required by law in any manner so as to prevent, delay, hinder, or interfere with the free use of such passageway by any person. Special security or security devices which affect the exiting shall be subject to the approval of the AHJ.

(6)

The AHJ, upon finding any overcrowded conditions or obstructions in aisles, passageways or other means of egress, or upon finding any condition which constitutes a serious menace to life, shall cause the performance, presentation, spectacle, entertainment or other activity to be stopped until such condition or obstruction is corrected.

(c)

Add to Section 10.7.

Reporting Hazardous Condition. Any person, upon discovering evidence of spontaneous heating or other abnormal heating of any merchandise, commodity, cargo, shipment, or other material of any kind in any building, appliance, apparatus, tank, or open stack or pile, or any person upon discovering or being apprised of any uncontrolled hazardous gas leak or hazardous material or combustible or flammable liquid spill, shall immediately notify the Fire Department.

(1)

Whenever an unwanted fire occurs in any building or on any premises of any kind, the owner, manager, occupant, or any person in control of such building or premises, upon discovery of the fire, or evidence of their having been an unwanted fire, even though it has apparently been extinguished, immediately shall cause notice of existence of such fire, circumstances of same, and the location thereof to be given to the Fire Department. This requirement shall not be construed to forbid the owner, manager, or other person in control of the aforementioned building or premises from using all diligence necessary to extinguish such fire prior to the arrival of the Fire Department.

(2)

Carelessness with Fire. No person shall deliberately, or through carelessness or negligence, set fire to or cause the burning of any material in such manner as to endanger the safety of any person or property.

(d)

Add to Section 10.8.

(1)

Notification of Fire Department of Inoperative Fire Safety Equipment. Persons owning, controlling, or otherwise having charge of any fixed fire extinguishing or fire warning system or standpipe system shall notify the Fire Department at any time such system or systems are inoperable or taken out of service. The Fire Department shall also be notified when service is restored.

Exception: This Section shall not apply to firms which have established on-premises fire fighting organizations and have coordinated and arranged procedures approved by the AHJ.

(2)

Attachments to Fire Escapes and Fire Protection Equipment. No person shall attach or fasten any rope, wire, cable, or similar device, except approved standard equipment, to any part of any fire escape, standpipe, auxiliary fire fighting equipment, appliance, or other apparatus.

(e)

Add to Section 10.11.2.

Disposal of Hot and Glowing Materials. Hot ashes, cinders, or smoldering coals shall be placed in non-combustible receptacles. Such receptacles, unless resting on a non-combustible floor or on the ground outside the building, shall be placed on non-combustible stands, and in every case shall be kept a distance of at least 2 ft. (0.61 m) laterally away from any combustible material, structure, or any exterior window opening.

(f)

Add to Section 10.12.1.

Access to Buildings. The owner of every property protected by a water flow, heat detector, smoke detector, manual fire alarm or any other device or system which will initiate a signal indicating an emergency, requiring immediate action by the Fire Department, will insure access to the entire property protected by the following means:

(1)

At least one person who will respond to the property within one (1) hour from alarm initiation and be capable of being contacted by the Supervising Station at all times, and

(2)

Keys to all areas shall be made available to the Fire Department in a lock box at the protected property at a location and of a type specified by the Fire Department; the key to which box will be carried only by Fire Department vehicles.

(g)

Add to Section 10.12.2.

(1)

All gated properties without 24-hour staffed guardhouses and with automatic opening devices, including, but not limited to, multi-family, one- and two-family dwellings, residential board and care, and health care, shall be provided with an automatic optical detector emergency access device approved by the Fire Marshal.

(2)

All new gates installed at 24-hour occupancy properties, such as multi-family, one-and two-family dwellings, residential board and care, and health care, shall be automatic gates and be provided with an automatic optical detector emergency access device approved by the Fire Marshal. Existing automatic opening devices may be continued in use subject to the approval of the Fire Marshal.

(3)

Manual gates at gated properties which are not required to have automatic opening devices by other sections of this Code shall be provided with a lock box or lock at the protected property at a location and of a type specified by the Fire Marshal, the key to which box will be carried only by Fire Department vehicles.

(Ord. No. 2017-23, § 2, 5-15-2017, Doc. #1705151205)