Chapter 15.16 — FIRE PREVENTION CODE

For statutory provisions on city fire protection generally, see Gov. Code §38600 et seq.; for provisions on explosives, see Health and Saf. Code §12000 et seq.; for provisions on fire protection generally, see Health and Saf. Code §13000 et seq.

There is adopted by the city 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 National Board of Fire Under-writers, being particularly the 1960 Edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended, of which code not less than three copies have been and are now filed in the office of the city clerk, and the same are adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length in this chapter, and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter, shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the city.

(Ord. 172 §1, 1961).

Wherever "municipality" is used in the code adopted by this chapter, it shall be held to mean the city of Corning.

(Ord. 172 §3, 1961).

The limits referred to In Section 73 of the code adopted by this chapter, in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited; the limits referred to in Section 103 of the code, in which bulk storage of liquified petroleum gas is restricted; and the limits referred to in Section 53 B of the code adopted by this chapter, in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, are established as follows: Fire zone one as described in Ordinance 137, codified in this chapter.

(Ord. 172 §4, 1961).

There is adopted by the city, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing the storage underground or in buildings of in— flammable liquids, those certain Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Storage, Handling and Use of Flammable Liquids, as set forth in Sections 209 to 215, inclusive, of the 1954 Edition of such standards, of which standards not less than three copies have been and now are filed in the office of the city clerk, and the same are adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length in this chapter, and from the date on which the ordinance codified in this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the city.

(Ord. 172 §5, 1961).

The chief of the fire department shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the code adopted by this chapter 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 are the decision of the chief of the fire department, and shall be entered upon the records of the department, and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.

(Ord. 172 §6, 1961).

Whenever the chief of the fire department disapproves an application or refuses to grant a permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the pro-visions of the code do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of the code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal from the decision of the chief of the fire department to the city council within thirty days from the date of the decision appealed.

(Ord. 172 §7, 1961).

The code adopted by this chapter shall be enforced by the chief of the fire department.

(Ord. 172 §2, 1961).