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HomeMy WebLinkAboutD-35A Fire Prevention Code (2) D -35 4 6-afe,a4 4 3 7 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE AND PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROP.FRTY FROM FIREE OR EXPLOSION Be It Ordained by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carmel, Indiana: Section 1. There is hereby adopted by the Town of Carmel, Indiana, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life or property from fire or explosion, that a certain Code known as the Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, being particularly the 1960 edition thereof, and the whole thereof, copies of which code are now on file in the office of the Clerk- Treasurer of the Town of Carmel, Indiana, 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 Town of Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana, Excepting therefrom the following provisions of said Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated Edition, to -wit: Article 4, Section 42, (a), (b) and (c), the same being omitted and deleted. Section 2, The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire Department. Section 3. Whenever the word "Municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the Town of Carmel, Indiana, Section 4. The limits referred to in section 73 of the code hereby adopted in which storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, the limits referred to in section 103 of the code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restricted, and the limits referred to in section 53b of the code hereby adopted, in which storage of explosives and blast- ing agents is prohibited, are hereby established as follows: Within the limits of the Town of Carmel, Indiana. Section 5. The Chief of the Fire Department shall have power to modify any of the provisions of the code hereby adopted 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 NOW Page 2. of the code shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done. The particulars of such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant. Section 6, Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant a 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 may appeal from the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department to the Board of Trustees within 30 days from the date of the decision appealed. Section 7, The Board of Trustees, any designated enforcement official, or any Person jointly or severally aggrieved, may institute a suit for an injunction or a mandatory injunction. Any Building, erected, raised, or converted, or land or premises used in violation of any provision of this Ordinance or the requirements thereof, is hereby declared to be a common nuisance and as such may be abated in such manner as nuisances are now or may hereafter be abated under existing law Section 8. All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this' ordinance or of the code hereby adopted are hereby repealed. Section 9, The Town of Carmel hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Town of Carmel that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elmin- ation herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. Section 10. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval as required by lacy, A i A �L 4 it lehr:Ml Attest: AlMirguer Clerk- Treasurer Board of Trustees Dated this 7th day of June, 1962.