Ridgecrest Municipal Code § 6-3 Burning rubbish

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State Law reference— Fire safety standards, Health and Safety Code §§ 18938, 13133.

Any person violating any provision of sections 6-2 through 6-4 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1980, § 17-1.5; Ord. No. 9, § 5)

No person shall deposit or keep, accumulate or permit, cause or suffer, any combustible rubbish or waste matter to be deposited, kept or accumulated in the city in such a manner as to constitute a fire hazard. Provided, further, that no person shall keep, accumulate or permit to be kept or accumulated any oily rags or oily waste, in any building or enclosure in the city unless the same is kept in a metal receptacle or can be fitted with a self-closing lid or cover, said receptacle being of durable material, having riveted joints, standing on metal legs which raise the bottom of the receptacle or container at least five inches from the floor.

(Code 1980, § 17-1.2; Ord. No. 9, § 2)

No person shall set fire to or burn any brush, grass, lumber, trash, rubbish, leaves or other combustible material, unless such burning is done between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon and in an incinerator, without first obtaining a written permit from the city fire department and then only in strict accordance with the terms of such permit. All incinerators shall have a one-quarter-inch mesh screen lid or cover over the smoke stack, or equivalent thereof and shall be permitted only when it is placed at least ten feet from any building, fence, property line, dry grass, or other combustible material. Written permission shall not be necessary when such flammable material is burned in small heaps or piles in plowed fields or not nearer than 100 feet to any house, corral, fence, structure, dry grass, brush, forest covered land, grain or stubble field, wood pile or hay stack or any other combustible material.

(Code 1980, § 17-1.3; Ord. No. 9, § 3)

No rubber scrap or any other material which produces or expels therefrom repugnant odors or other substances likely to cause an explosion shall be burned in an incinerator or within 50 feet of the property of another person unless within an incinerator which is designed and constructed to affect sufficient combustion of the material to prohibit the liberation to outside air of any substance, gases or odors which may be dangerous or harmful to health, safety or property.

(Code 1980, §§ 17-1.4, 17-1.5; Ord. No. 9, §§ 4, 5)

(a) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or the code adopted herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) The International Fire Code, 2015 edition is hereby adopted by reference.

(1) The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications by the city building department shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of any of the provisions of this code. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of this code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorizes is lawful.

(2) The issuance of a permit upon plans and specifications shall not prevent the building inspector from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from preventing construction operations being carried on thereunder when in violation of this code or of any other ordinances or from revoking any certificate of approval when issued in error.

(3) Every permit issued by the building inspector under the provisions of this code or other codes of the city shall expire by limitation and become null and void, if the work authorized by such permit is not commenced within 60 days from the date of such permit, or if work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is commenced for a period of 120 days. Before such work can be recommended a new permit shall first be obtained to do so.

(4) This section shall not be construed as imposing on the city or its officers or employees any liability for damage resulting from defective work; nor shall the city or any of its officers or employees be held to assume any such liability by reason of the inspections authorized hereunder.

(5) No person, whether as owner, lessee, sublessee, or occupant, shall erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, improve, remove, demolish, equip, use, occupy, or maintain any building or premises, or cause or permit the same to be done, contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this section or the code adopted herein or any order issued by the building official hereunder.

(Code 1980, §§ 17-2.1—17-2.5; Ord. No. 77-15, §§ 1—5; Ord. No. 85-03, § 11; Ord. No. 85-06, § 1; Ord. No. 87-10, § 11; Ord. No. 91-04, § 2; Ord. No. 02-04, § 2, 10-16-2002)