HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 2010-3175ORDINANCE NO. 3175
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING
CHAPTER 15.36 OF THE CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE
ADOPTING THE CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE, 2010 EDITION
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does ordain as follows:
SECTION I. That Chapter 15.36 of the Chula Vista Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Chapter 15.36
FIRE CODE
Sections:
15.36.010 California Fire Code, 2010 Edition, adopted by reference.
15.36.015 Definitions.
15.36.020 Solar Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines.
15.36.025 Operational permit for Christmas tree lots.
15.36.030 Operational permit for waste handling.
15.36.035 Violation penalties.
15.36.040 Failure to comply.
15.36.050 Fire hydrant systems -- Where required.
15.36.055 Fire hydrant spacing.
15.36.010 California Fire Code, 2010 Edition, adopted by reference.
There is hereby adopted and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein, the
California Fire Code, 2010 Edition, known as the Califomia Code of Regulations, Title 24 part 9,
including Appendix Chapter 4 and Appendix A through J as copyrighted by the International Code
Council, and the Califomia Building Standazds Commission, which code and associated
appendices prescribe the regulations governing conditions hazazdous to life and property from fire
or explosion, as the Fire Code of the City of Chula Vista, ,excepting such portions as aze
hereinafter deleted, modified or amended as set forth in this chapter for the purpose of regulation
and enforcement within the City of Chula Vista.
15.36.015 Definitions.
Chapter 2 Definitions -Section 202 of the Fire Code Portion of the California Building
Standards Code is hereby revised to include the following definitions:
"Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention" means Fire Marshal.
"Fire Department" means any regularly organized fire department, fire protection district, a legally
formed volunteer fire department recorded with the County of San Diego, or Fire Company
regularly charged with the responsibility of providing fire protection to the jurisdiction.
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"Fire Authority Having Jurisdiction (FAHJ)" means the designated entity providing enforcement
of fire regulations as they relate to planning, construction and development. This entity may also
provide fire suppression and other emergency services.
"Fire Hazazd" means anything that increases or could cause an increase of the hazard or menace of
fire to a greater degree than customarily recognized as normal by persons m the public service
regulazly engaged in preventing, suppressing or extinguishing fire or any thing or act which could
obstruct, delay, hinder or interfere with the operations of the fire department or egress of
occupants in the event of fire.
"Fire Service Features" is a general term inclusive of all other terms such as driveway, fire lane,
public street, private street, parking lot, lane and access roadway.
This Section 15.36.015 amends Section 202 of the Fire Code Portion of the
California Building Standards Code only by adding those definitions specifically
identified in herein. No other changes to Section 202 of the Fire Code Portion of the
California Building Standazds Code aze contemplated or intended, and the balance of the
definitions therein shall remain unchanged and continue in full force and effect.
15.36.020 Solar Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines.
Chapter 1 Scope and Administration -Subsection 1.1.5.1 Solar Photovoltaic Installation
Guidelines is hereby added to the Fire Code portion of the California Building Standazds Code to
read as follows:
Subsection 1.1.5.1 Solar Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines. With respect to Solaz Photovoltaic
installations, the provisions contained in the California Departrnent of Forestry and Fire
Protection-Office of the State Fire Marshal's Solar Photovoltaic Installation Guidelines, as dated
April 22, 2008, are hereby adopted m accordance with and pursuant to Subsection 1.1.5, and shall
be used for the design and installation of solar photovoltaic systems.
15.36.025 Operational permit for Christmas tree lots.
Chapter 1 Scope and Administration -Subsection 105.6.48 Christmas tree lots is hereby
added to the Fire Code portion of the California Building Standazds Code to read as follows:
Subsection 105.6.48 Christmas tree lots. An operational permit is required to operate a Christmas
tree lot with or without flame-proofing services.
15.36.030 Operational permit for waste handling.
Chapter 1 Scope and Administration -Subsection 105.6.46 Waste handling of the Fire
Code portion of the California Building Standards Code is hereby revised to read as follows:
Subsection 105.6.46 Waste handling. An operational permit is required for the operation of wrecking
yards, junk yards and waste material-handling facilities (green waste recycling, mulching, composting
operations and storage).
15.36.035 Violation penalties.
Chapter 1 Scope and Administration -Subsection 109.3 Violation penalties of the Fire
Code portion of the California Building Standazds Code is hereby revised to read as follows:
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Subsection 109.3 Violation penalties. Persons who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail
to comply with any of the requvements thereof or who shall erect, install, alter, repair or do work in
violation of the approved construction documents or directive of the fve code official, or of a permit
or certificate used under provisions of this code, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine of not more than the greater of $1,000 dollars or as established by the City of Chula Vista Policy
and Procedures Manual for Civil Penalties or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both
such fine and imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served
shall be deemed a separate offense.
15.36.040 Failure to comply.
Chapter 1 Scope and Administration -Subsection 111.4 Failure to comply of the Fire Code
portion of the California Building Standards Code is hereby revised to read as follows:
111.4 Failure to comply. Any person who shall continue any work after having been served with a
stop work order, except such work as that person is dvected to perform to remove a violation or
unsafe condition, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $250.00 dollars or more than $1,000
dollars.
15.36.050 Fire hydrant systems -- Where required.
Chapter 5 Fire Service Features -Subsection 508.5.1 Fire hydrant systems -- Where
required of the Fire Code portion of the California Building Standards Code is hereby revised to
read as follows:
Subsection 508.5.1 Where required. Where a portion of a facility or building hereafter constructed
or moved into or within [he jurisdiction is more than 150 feet from a hydrant on a fire apparatus
access road, as measured by an approved route azound the exterior of the facility or building, on-
site fire hydrants and mains shall be provided where required by the fire code official.
Exceptions: 1. For Group R-3 and Group U occupancies, the distance requirement shall be 250 feet.
In Group R-3 and Group U occupancies, the distance requirement shall be not more than 600 feet
when equipped throughout with an approved automatic sprinkler system installed in accordance
with this code.
15.36.055 Fire hydrant spacing.
Chapter 5 Fire Service Features -Subsection 507.5.1.1 Fire hydrant spacing is hereby
added to the Fire Code portion of the California Building Standards Code to read as follows:
Subsection 507.5.1.1 Water supplies and fire hydrants. In multi-family zones and in commercial
and industrial zones, fire hydrants shall be installed at intersections, a[ the beginning radius of cul-
de-sacs, and every 300 feet (on-center) of fire access roadways, regardless of parcel size. In single-
family zones, fire hydrants shall be installed every 500 feet (on-center).
15.36.060 Artwork.
Chapter 8 Interior Finish, Decorative Materials, and Furnishing -- Subsection 807.4.3.2
Artwork of the Fire Code portion of the California Building Standards Code is hereby revised to
read as follows:
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Subsection 807.4.3.2. Artwork. Artwork and teaching materials shall be limited on the walls of corridors
and classrooms to not more than 20 percent of the wall area in non-sprinklered buildings and 50 percent in
sprinklered buildings.
SECTION II. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista specifically and expressly finds and declazes that each
of the additions and amendments noted above to the 2010 Edition of the California Fire Code is
necessary due to local climatic, geological and topographical conditions.
SECTION III. EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance will take effect and be in force thirty days after final passage but not before
January 1, 2011.
Presented by
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David Hanneman
Fire Chief
Approved as to form by
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PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 23rd day of November 2010, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Bensoussan, Castaneda, McCann, Ramirez and Cox
NAYS: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
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Cheryl Cox, yor
ATTEST:
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D a R. Norris, C ,City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO
CITY OF CHULA VISTA
I, Donna R. Norris, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 3175 had its first reading at a regular meeting held on the 9th day of November
2010 and its second reading and adoption at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
23rd day of November 2010; and was duly published in summary form in accordance with the
requirements of state law and the City Charter.
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Dated o a R. Norris, CM ,City Clerk