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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1055 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1968/12/23Original ORDINANCE NO. 1055 DECEMBER 9, 1968 8G AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERN- ING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION AND ADOPTED BY REFERENCE PORTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSURANCE ASSOCIATION CODE, ENTITLED "FIRE PREVENTION CODE, 1965 EDITION" AND ESTABLISHING A FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU AND PROVIDING INSPECTORS THEREFOR AND DEFINING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. That conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or ex- plosions are hereby regulated as follows: Section 5:1100. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code by Reference. There is hereby adopted by the City of St. Louis Park for the purpose of prescrib- ing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code entitled the "Fire Prevention Code, 1965 Edition, " except that portion of Article 16 thereof entitled "Flammable and Combustible Liquids, " as set forth in Division VI thereof entitled "Service ' Stations" containing Sections 16. 61, 16. 62, 16. 63, 16. 64, 16. 65, 16. 66, 16. 67, 16. 68 and 16. 69 and also adopting that certain code entitled "October 1966 Revision of the Fire Prevention Code, 1965 Edition" relating to Service Stations, both of which codes have been prepared by the American Insurance Association, being particularly the 1965 edition with the 1966 revisions thereof, ancT the whole thereof consisting of Articles 1 through 30 inclusive, not less than (3) copies of both of said codes have been, and now are, filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of St. Louis Park for use and examination by the public and marked "Official Copies" and a substantial supply thereof available for distri- bution 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 St. Louis Park. Section 5:1101. Establishment of Bureau of Fire Prevention. The Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the City of St. Louis Park which is hereby established and which shall be operated under the supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department. Section 5:1102. Duties of Bureau of Fire Prevention. The Fire Marshal in charge of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be the Fire Chief as set forth in Section 1:107 (2) C of the St. Louis Park Ordinance Code. The Chief of the Fire Department may detail such members of the Fire Department as Inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary. 0 Section 5:1103. Definitions. • Subdivision A. Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the Fire Prevention Code, it shall mean the City of St. Louis Park. Subdivision B. Wherever the words "Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention" are used in the Fire Prevention Code they shall mean the Fire Chief of the City of St. Louis Park. Subdivision C. Wherever Section Numbers 16.61, 16. 62, 16. 63, 16. 64, 16. 65, 16. 66, 16. 67, 16.63 or 16.69 or the subject matter therein contained, shall be mentioned or referred to in the Fire Pre- vention Code, 1965 Edition heretofore mentioned in Section 5:1100 of this ordinance, such section numbers and references to subject matter shall refer to the corresponding numbers and materials as set forth in the "October 1966, Revision of the Fire Prevention Code, 1965 Edition" as heretofore also mentioned in said Section 5:1100 of this Ordinance. Section 5:1104. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside Above -ground Tanks is to be Prohibited. Subdivision A. Zones comprising areas described as the limits referred to in Section 16. 22 of the Fire Prevention Code in which storage of flammable liquids in outside above -ground tanks is prohi- bited, are hereby established as follows: Zones comprising areas described as Use Districts R1, R2, R3, R4, and RB, as bounded and established pursuant to Ordinance No. 730, passed December 28, 1959, known as "St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance." Subdivision B. The limits referred to in Section 16.51 of the Fire Prevention Code, in which new bulk plants for flammable liquids are prohibited, are hereby established as follows: Zones comprising areas described as R1, R2, R3, R4, and RB, as bounded and established pursuant to Ordinance No. 730, passed December 28, 1959 known as "St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance." Section 5:1105. Establishment of Limits in which Bulk Storage of Liquified Petroleum Gases is to be Restricted. The limits referred to in Section 21. 6a of the Fire Prevention Code, in which bulk storage of liquified petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby established as follows: Zones comprising areas described as R1, R2, R3, R4, and RB, as bounded and established pursuant to Ordinance No. 730, passed December 28, 1959, known as "St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance." -2- 0 Section 5:1106. Establishment of Limits of Districts in Which Storage of Explosives and Blasting Agents is Prohibited. The limits referred to in Section 21. 6a of the Fire Prevention Code, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited are hereby established as follows: Zones comprising areas described as R1, R2, R3, R4, RB, B1, B2, and 13, as bounded and established in Crdinance No. 730, passed December 28, 1959, known as "St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance." Section 5:1107. 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 provisions of the code do not apply, or that the true intent and meaning of the code have been misconstrued or wrong- ly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to the City l,'_anager within thirty (30) days from the date of such decision of the Fire Chief. Section 5:1108. Separability. Should any section, subdivision, clause, paragraph, sentence, or word of this ordinance, or of the code hereby adopted, be declared by a Court of Competent Jurisdiction for any reason to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole nor any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid, 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 2. Repealer. Ordinance No. 782, Entitled "An Ordinance Prescribing Regulations Governing Conditions Hazardous to Life and Property from Fire or Explosion and Adopting by Reference Portions of the National Board of Fire Underwriters Code, Entitled"Fire Prevention Code, 1960 Edition, "and Estab- lishing a Fire Prevention Bureau and Providing Inspectors Therefor and De- fining their Powers and Duties" adopted April 24, 1961 is hereby repealed, such repeal shall be effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. Section 3. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100. 00) or by imprisonment for not to exceed ninety (90) days. -3- Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after its publication. �/ Adopted by the City Council December 23, 1968. 'Mayor / Atte t: Lijgz J ity Clerk Reviewed for administration: Approved as to form and legality: -11-t-AA-7 City Manager City Attorney -4- SUN I\EWSPAPERS AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION St. Louis Park Sun 12 Suburban Square Hopkins, Minnesota State of Minnesota County of Hennepin SS. W. JOHN BERTRAM, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The St. Louis Park Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second-class matter in its local post -office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of St. Louis Park in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Hopkins in said county, established and open during its regular business rs for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and main - by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and con- trol during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto. (6) Said news- paper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said news- paper has complied with all the foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. He further states on oath that the printedR'NE: N 1055 C hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, for tha successive weeks; it was first so published on . htir a the , . . ; day of .. 4 4, 19 and was thereafter printed and published T published on every the . day ofjan. 69 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to wit: ab cdefghi j klmnopgrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz to and including Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of Barbara Samuelson, Notary Public, Ramsey County, Minn. My Commission Expires November 8, 1971 )Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO. 1055 AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING REGULA- TIONS GOVERNING EGULATIONS.GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZ- ARDOUS TO AZ-ARDOCS"TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR :EXPLOSION AND ADOPTED BY REFERENCE<: PORTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSURANCE ASSO- CIATION CODE, SSO-CIATION.CODE, E\TITLED.-FIRE.PRE- VENTION CODE, ':'1965"EDITION" AND ESTABLISHLNG AFIRE PREVENTION. BUREAL' AND' PROVIDING. INSPECTORS THEREFOR ` AND ' DEFINING THEIR POSERS AND DUTIES THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. That conditions hazardousto life and property from fire- or explosions are hereby regulated as foliows Section5:1100. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code by Reference. Thereisherebyadopted -:� be the City of St Louis Park for the pur- pose of - prescribing regulations governing;. conditions hazardous to life and property. from fire orexplosion. that certain code entitled. the '."Fire Prevention Code. 1965 Edition," except that portion of''Article -"16 thereof entitled "Flammable. and Com- bustible Liquids." as set forth in Division VI thereof entitled "Service Stations" con- taining Sections 16.61.. 16.62. 16.63. 16.64. 16:65. 16:66.'.16.67. 16.68 and 16.69 and also - adopting that certaincode entitled `'October 1966 Revision of the Fire Prevention Code,. 1965 Edition" relating. to Service Stations." both of which codes have been prepared' by the American Insurance Association. being .particularly- the 1965 edition - with the 1966 revisions thereof, and the whole thereof consisting of Articles 1 through 30 inclusive. not less than (3) copies of bothof said codes have been. and now are. filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of St- Louise: Park foruse and examination by thepublic and marked "Official Copies" and a substantial supply thereof available for. distribution and the same are herebyadopted and incor- porated as fully as 16 set out at length herein. and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions: :thereof shall be controlling within the limitsl. of the City of St. Louis Park Section 5:1101. Establishment of `.Bureau of Fire Prevention. The Fire .Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Bureau. of Fire Prevention in the. Fire Department 'of the City of St>. Louis Park which is hereby established and which shall be operated un- der the supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department. Section 5:1102. Duties of Bureau of Fire Prevention. The Fire Marshal in charge of ;the Bureau of Fire Prevention shalt be the Fire Chief as set forth in Section .1:107 (2)' C of the St. Louis Park Ordinance Code. The Chief of, the Fire Department may detail such members of the Fire department as Inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary. Section 5:1103. Definitions. Subdivision A. Vsherever the word "Mu- nicipality" is used in the Fire Prevention Code it shall mean the City of St. Louis Subdivision B. Wherever the words "Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention pare usedin the Fire Prevention Code they shall mean the Fire Chief of the City of St Louis Park. Subdivision C. Wherever Section Num- bers 16.61.-16.62, 10:63, 16.64,'16.65, 16.60,; 16 67, 16:68 or 16:69 or the subject matter therein contained, shall be mentioned or referred to in the Fire Prevention Code,u 1965 Edition ' heretofore mentioned in Section "5:1100 of this ordinance, such1,' section numbers and references to subject •� matter shall refer to the corresponding numbers and materials as set forth in the "October 1966, Revision of the Fire' J'revention Code. 1965 Edition ' as hereto fore alsomentioned in said Section 5:1100 of this Ordinance Section 5:1104. , Establishment of Limits of:: Districts:' in which Storage of: Flammable-:;' liquids in.,Outside Above -ground Tanks is to be Prohibited. Subdivision A. Zones comprising areas • described as the limits referred to inr Section .1622 of the Fire Prevention Code in which storage of flammable liquids in v- outside above -ground tanks is prohibited. are hereby established as follows Zones comprising' areas described asUse Dis- tricts 111. 112. it3. 14.: and RB. asbounded and established pursuant to Ordinance No. 730, passed. December 23, 1959, known as "St Louis Park Zoning Ordinance. Subdivision B. The limits referred to „` in Section :16.51 of.the Fire Prevention Code, in which new bulk plants for flam- n. enable liquids are prohibited. are hereby established as follows: Zones comprising areas described as 111; J t2.: 113, 1;4, and' 118. as bounded and established pursuant to Ordinance No. 730. passed December 28, 1959, known as "SC Louis Park Zoning: Ordinance." Section 5:1105. Establishment of Limits in which Bulk Storage of Liquified Pet-.., roleum Gases is to be Restricted. The limits --referred to=. in Section- 21.6a- of the F'ire Prevention Code, in which bulk storage` of liquified petroleum gas is restricted, are hereby established as follows; Zones tom prising areas described as 1t1. 112. 113,. 1:4. and HB, as bounded and, established pur- suant to Ordinance No.. 730. passed Decem- ber 28, 1959. known', as "St. Louis Park Zoning Ordinance." , Section 5:1106: Establishment of Limits of Districts in Wbich Storage, of Explosives and Blasting Agents is Prohibited. The limits referred to in Section 21.6a of the Fire Prevention Code.: in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited arehereby established as follows:'_Zones comprising areas described as 111:,: 1t2, It3. Ii4, : RB. B1, B2, and. 13 as bounded and established in. Ordinance No. 730, passed December 28; 1959, known as SI Louis Park Zoning Ordinance Section 5:1107. - Appeals. Whenever the Chief of thee'. Fire Department `shall : dis- approve an application or is-approveanapplicationor refuse to granta license or 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 .wrongly interpreted; the applicant mal, appeal from the decision of the Chief of 'the Fire Department to the City Managerwithin thirty .130 i': days from the date of . such decision of the Fire Chief: Section 5:1106, Separability. Should any section. : subdivision, clause. paragraph. sen- tence, or word of this ordinance. or of the,, code hereby adopted. be declared` by a': Court of Competent Jurisdiction for any reason to be invalid, .such . decision shall:', notaffect thevalidity of 160 ordinance as o whole nor any part thereof other than the part, so declared to be invalid. it would have passed alt other portions of this ordinance independent of the elminatIon herefrom ofany such portion as may be -. declared invalid. Section 2. Repealer. Ordinance Yo. 782. Entitled "An Ordinance Prescribing Regula- tions Governing Conditions :'Hazardous to Life and Property from Fire or Explosion and Adopting by Reference 'Portions :of' the National Board of Fire Underwriters Code. Entitled -Fire : Prevention Code. 1960 Edition," and hestahlishing-a Fire Prevention Bureau _ and Providing Inspectors Therefor and Defining their ' Powers and `-Duties adopted April 24. 1961 is -hereby'. repealed. such .repeal shallr. be effective upon the effective date of this ordinance. Section 3. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions: of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and ;upon con viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one :- hundred dollars 1$100.00) or by imprisonment for not to exceed ninety 1901 days.. Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect ,: fifteen days after its publication Adopted by the City' Council - December 23. 1968. Attest: 1s) EARL E. HANSON. City Clerk. Approved as to form and legality; H_61 BURRY. City Attorney Reviewed for administration:.: CHRIS CHERCHES. City Manager Jan. 2. 19691-D:, is.I LEONARD THIEL. Mayor ORDINANCE NO. 1055 Entitled:' AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOMMNG CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROn FIRE OR EXPLOSION AND ADOPTED BY REFERENCE PORTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSURANCE ASSOCIATION CODE, ENTITLED "FIRE PREVENTION CODE, 1965 EDITION" AND ESTABLISHING A FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU AND PROVIDING INSPECTORS THEREFOR AND DEFINING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES Introduced by Oat, Reading -Date 12/9/68 Waived 3ccnd R�cdia ;-.ate 12/23/68a ved Aye " y Puh1ishe:' Date 1/2/69 Effective Date 1/17/69 Cede Reference