Chapter 15.80

PERSONAL SAFETY BUILDING CODE

Sections:

15.80.010 Application. 15.80.020 Personal safety. 15.80.030 Exception for dwellings related to commercial developments. 15.80.040 Exception for single-family residences. 15.80.050 Effective date. 15.80.060 Retroactive applications.

• Provisions of this chapter shall apply to the following uses: A. Apartment houses; B. Boarding houses; C. Fraternity or sorority houses, dormitories; D. Group care facilities; E. Child care centers with less than thirty-six (36) children; F. Child day care facilities with less than thirty-six (36) children; G. Townhouses; H. Row houses; I. Cluster developments; J. Condominiums and stock cooperatives; K. Duplexes;

L. Single-family residences. (Prior code § 9.23.910)

All projects shall be reviewed to determine the levels of public and personal safety provided. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 15.80.030 and 15.80.040 of this chapter, each individual living unit shall meet the following minimum requirements: A. All open parking lots and carports shall be provided with a minimum maintained one footcandle of light as measured at the parking surface, from one half-hour before sunset until one halfhour after sunrise. All lighting devices shall be equipped with weather and vandal resistant covers. Lighting shall be engineered so as not to produce direct glare or "stray light" on adjacent properties. B. Aisles, passageways and recesses related to and within the building complex shall be illuminated with an intensity of at least twenty-five one-hundredths minimum maintained footcandle of light as measured at ground level during the hours of darkness. These lighting devices shall be protected by weather and vandal resistant covers. C. All building numbers and street addresses shall be clearly visible from all public or private access streets. The street and building numbers shall be no less than four inches in height and of a contrasting color to their background. D. Where multiple dwellings are serviced by vehicular access to the rear by any private street, driveway, alleyway, parking lot, or court yard, the address and building number shall be posted on the rear of the building. E. At all complexes containing two or more buildings, there shall be posted at each entrance to the complex a diagrammatic representation of the complex, showing the location of the viewer and the unit designations within the complex.

• F. Parking spaces shall be numbered in such a manner that the space numbers do not correspond to the individual address or unit numbers of residences.

• G. All entry doors shall be of the solid core type and be equipped with a single cylinder deadbolt lock meeting the following minimum standards:

1. The bolt shall have a throw of at least one inch and be constructed so as to repel cutting tool attack.

2. The cylinder of the deadbolt shall be equipped with a guard designed to repel attack by prying or wrenching.

3. The deadbolt shall be of the pin tumbler type with a minimum of five pins for a maximum of two entry doors only. Additional entry doors may be fitted with keyless dead bolts.

4. Double cylinders deadbolt locks may be used only in accordance with the Uniform Fire Code.

H. Each exterior door hinge shall be secured with a minimum of two number eight screws which must penetrate at least two inches into solid backing beyond the frame to which the hinge is attached.

I. The strike plates designated to receive the deadbolt locks shall be constructed of a minimum sixteen (16) U.A. Gauge steel, bronze or brass, and shall be secured to a wood jamb with not less than two number eight screws which must penetrate at least two inches into solid backing beyond the surface to which the strike is attached. Strike plates attached to metal jambs shall be secured with a minimum of four number eight machine screws.

the deadbolt locks shall be constructed of a minimum sixteen (16) U.A. Gauge steel, bronze or brass, and shall be secured to a wood jamb with not less than two number eight screws which must penetrate at least two inches into solid backing beyond the surface to which the strike is attached. Strike plates attached to metal jambs shall be secured with a minimum of four number eight machine screws.

• J. Sliding door and window assemblies shall be so designed that the door or window cannot be lifted from the track when the door or window is in the closed position.

• K. Sliding door assemblies shall have an auxiliary locking device permanently mounted on the interior and which is not accessible from the exterior.

• L. All primary egress doors shall be so equipped as to provide the occupant with a clear view of that area immediately outside the door. This view may be provided by a one-way door viewer designed to provide a one hundred eighty (180) degree field of view. Such viewer shall not be mounted in excess of fifty-four (54) inches from the interior floor.

• M. The declaration of conditions, covenants and restrictions, if they exist, shall give the officers of the home owners' association strong and specific powers to have towed away all unauthorized parked vehicles from nondedicated streets, alleys and parking areas.

N. Nothing in the declaration of conditions, covenants and restrictions, if they exist, shall prohibit a resident from placing Home Alert (Neighborhood Watch) decals, Operation Identification decals and intrusion alarm warning decals in their windows in a reasonable manner. (Prior code § 9.23.920)

The requirements set forth in this chapter shall not apply to dwellings erected above or as part of commercial buildings. (Prior code § 9.23.925)

The requirements found in Section 15.80.020(A), (B), (D), (E) and (F) of this chapter, shall not apply to single-family residences or duplexes. (Prior code § 9.23.930)

Except as otherwise provided in Section 15.80.060 of this chapter, the requirements as set forth in this chapter shall apply to all buildings which are subject to the regulations of this chapter and for which permits for new construction are issued on or after ninety (90) days following the effective date of this chapter. (Prior code § 9.23.935)

Notwithstanding Section 15.80.050 of this chapter, the requirements of this chapter specified by Section 15.80.020(C), (D), (E), (F), (H), (I), (J), (K), (L), shall apply retroactively to all nonowner occupied units existing on the effective date of this chapter listed in Section 15.80.010(G), (H), (I) and (J) and to all units listed in Section 15.80.010(A), (B) and (C). All entry doors of units subject to retroactive applications shall be equipped with single cylinder deadbolts as specified in Section 15.80.020(G). The requirements set forth in this section shall be complied with by June 1, 1985. (Prior code § 9.23.940)