Ordinance 321ORDINANCE N0, y~.,~
AN O F THE CITY O LONGWOOD, FL ,
ADOPTING A FIRE P NT IONPCO PRESCRIBINGDA
REGULATIONS GOVERNING C TIONS HAZARDOUS
LIFE AND PROPERTY F FIRE OR EX EION,
RECOMMENDED BY RICAN INEUAANCE
ASSOCIATION, FIRE P VENISON C
0£ 19]0, A FIRE P NTIONDCODL FOR
TFIE CITY OF LONGWOOD, FLORIDA.
EE IT ORDAINED BY TF~ CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LONGWOOD, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: Pursuant to Section 165.191, Florida
Statntes, 1969, there is hereby adopted by the City of
Longwood, Plorida, for the purpose o£ prescribing regulations
governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire
or explosion, that certa.vn code known as the "Frre Preventron
code" recommended by the American Insurance Association, being
particularly the 19]0 edition thereof, and save and except such
portions as are here ina£ter deleted, modified, Or amended, of
which code not less than {hree (31 copies axe filed in the
office of the City Clerk, and have been so filed for a period
of more than ten (10) days prior to the date of passage of this
Ordinance, 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 City of Longwood,
Florida.
SECTION 2 Vfierever the word "Municipality" as used
rn the Frre Prevention Code, rt shall mean the City of
Longwood, Florida.
N 3: 4fierever the term C p ation counsel"
>s used in the Frre Prevention Code, it shall be held to mean
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the City of Longwood, Florida.
SECLION 4: The limits referred to vn the Fire
Preventvon Code aze hereby established as all o£ the City of
Lonywooa, eloriaa.
mxoN s: Articla I, General Pro~rsrona, sentiona
1.1, 1.4 (a), 1.4(c), 1.4 (df, 1.5 (e) and 1.5 (f), are amended
and/or added so that they shall read as follows:
Sect von 1.1 Sntent of Code. It is the
intent of this code to prescribe regulations cons vs tent with
natvonal ly recognized good practice for the safeguarding to a "'`
reasonable degree of life and property from the hazards of fire
and explosion arvs ing from storage, handling and use of
hazardous substances, materials and devices, and from conditions
hazardous to 11fe or property in the use or occupancy of
buildings or premises. Compliance with the most restrictive
requirement of this Ordinance, the Life Safety Code - NFPA
No. 101, and the Southern Standard Building Code shall be
deemed to be prima facie evidence of compliance with this
vntent. Foz any condition or svtuatvon not specifically
covered in these publications, the requirements of the current
set o£ National Fixe Codes shall be used.
Sectron 1.4 Inspection of Buildings
ana Premrses.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Chief
of the Fixe Department to inspect, or cause to be inspected by
the Bureau of Fvre Preventvon, oz by the Fire Department Offices
or members, all buildings and premises except the interior of
dwellings, as often as may be necessary for the purpose of
ascertaining and causing to be corrected any condition Liable
to cause fire, endanger life from tire, or any violations o£
the provisions or intent of this code, the Life Safety Code,
and any other Ordinance affecting the fire hazard.
(c) with the exception of one and two
zmily residences, all plans for new construction, remodeling
or renovation shall be approved by the Chief of the F.vxe
Department, the Frre Marshal or his designated representative
prior to the issuance o£ City permits.
(d) Pr.vor to the issuance or transfer of
an Occupational License or moving of an Occupational L.vicense
holder's business to a new or additional location, the premises
or site to be occupied shall be inspected and approved by the
Chief o£ the fire Department, Fire Marshal, or his designated
representative for compliance with the applicable Codes and
Standards.
Section 1.5 Orders to Eliminate
Dangerous or Hazardous Conditions.
(e) Obstructions to designated fue
lanes and entrances to buildings whether on private or City
property, to or on fire escapes, designated access openings in
exterior walls for Fire Department use, stairs, passageways,
doors or windows, liable to interfere with the operations of
the Fire Department or egress of occupants in case of fire.
(f) My building ox other structure
which, for want o£ repairs, lack of adequate exit facilities,
avtomatrc or other fire alarm apparatus or fire extinguishing
equipment, fire hydrants, water mains, lack o£ adequate access
for Fire Department vehicles ox by reason of age or dilapidated
condition, or £rom any other cause, creates a hazardous
condition.
SECTION 6: Article 16, Flammable and Combustible
Liquids, Davas ron SX, Section 16.994 (i) as added so that it
shall read as follows:
(i) No Class I liquid shall be dispensed
or delivered into the fuel tank o£ a motor vehicle or marine
vehicle from a tank vehicle used £or the transporting of
flaam,able os combustible liquids within the City of Longwood,
Florida.
SECTION ]: Article 28, Precasstrons Against Fare,
General, Section 28.1 ~, as added so that it shall read as
follows:
Section 28.17 Group Day Care of Children.
(a) Group day care of children shall be
defined as a program which provides Fos the care and develop-
ment of sax (6) or more children, two through six years of age,
way from their own homes, £or a period of one to twelve hours,
regularly during the day time. A gxossp day care program may
also enroll children after school hours who are seven years of
aqe ana older.
(b) The buildings of a group day care
program shall be so located and equipped as not to be a £ixe
hazard. Approval of gas, oil, and electrical appliances, fire-
places, £uel lines and wiring shall be conditioned upon com-
pliance with the standards descrabed in Sectaon 1.1 of the Fir
Prevention Code, and shall be properly installed and maintained _
vn compliance with all provisions of said Fire Preventvon Code
vn compliance with the building, electrical, and all other
applicable codes o£ the City of Longwood, Florida.
1. All heating appliances, cooking
appliances and exhassst hoods shall be approved by the Chie£ of
the Fvxe Department of his designee.
2. Casst von shall be exerc used in the
use of stoves of all types, electrical appliances and fixtures,
fireplaces, and in the storage of combustible and flammable
materials.
3. Safety plugs shall be installed
vn all electrical outlets which are in the reach of children.
4. There shall be accessible fire
exvts kept clear at all tunes.
a. Latches, bolts, locks, or any
device on any door that may interfere with the egress of
children in case of £ixe are prohibited, panic hardware shall
be provided on all mavn ex.vts.
b. A11 exit doors shall open in
the line o£ exit travel and shall, from the inside, be egssipped
with knobs that when locked can be opened by the turning of the
knob. Regulations differ in large day care centers which are
categorized as "places o£ assembly".
5. Fire extinguishers shall be
su££icient in number and type and kept ready fox instant use.
6. The accumulation of trash and
other materials which might start or £eed a £ixe shall not be
permitted.
], The children in a group day car
program shall be protected From fire by fire prevention measur
and by a preazranged evacuatron plan to be followed in the eve
of afire. Such measures and plans axe to be approved by the
Chief of the Fire Department.
8. Each room which children o copy
shall have at least two (2) separate means of egress.
9. The personel of a group day car
program shall be instructed in how to extinguish a fire: how
to report a fire; and how to evacssate children in event of a £i'
10. The buildings and grounds of a
group day care program shall be free of hazards to safety, such
as unfenced play areas and pools, dangerous stairways and
unscreened stoves or fireplaces.
11. There shall be installed and well
maintained protective gates or barriers at the kitchen door to
prevent children from entering the kitchen.
SECTION 8: Article 14, Frxe Protection Equipment,
Eection 14.4(£) as added as follows:
Section 14.4 Automatic Sprinkler Systems.
(f) Automatic Sprinkler Systems shall be
required as follows:
1. Throughout every building sssed
for the manufacture, storage or sale of combustible goods ox
merchandise if:
a. O£ Type 1 construct.von as
defined by Southern Standard Building Code and (a) total area of
all floors exceeds 12,000 square feet: or (b) more than two
stories in height and total area of all floors exceeds 10,000
square feet; or (c) more than three stones vn height, regard-
less of floor area.
b. Of less than Type 1 con-
struction and (a) total area of ail floors exceeds 8,000 square
feet: or (b) more than one story in height and total area o£ all
floors exceeds 5,000 square feet; or (c) more than three stories.
in height, regardless of floor area.
2. Throughout every ovblic garage,
excluding parking ramps, if:
a. Of Type 1 construction and
total floor area exceeds 10,000 square feet.
b. Of less than Type 1 con-
struction and total floor area exceeds 6,000 square feet.
3. Throughout every hotel, motel,
apartment house and dormitory, if:
a. Of Type 1 construction as
defined by Southern Standard Building Code and more than four
starves in height.
b. Of less than Type 1 con-
struction as defined by Southern Standazd Bssilding Code and
more than three stones in height.
c. Total floor area exceeds
15,000 square feet, regardless of type of construction.
4. Throughout bowling alleys and
restaurants i£ total floor area exceeds 6,000 square feet.
S. Throughout all. buildings occupied
or used as places of public assembly having a stage arranged Eor
theatrical, operatic or similar performances, excepting only
the auditorium foyers, lobbies and the immediate vrcanity of
automatic stage ventilators, if the building is of less than
Type 22 construction as defined by Southern standazd Bssilding
Code, and regazdless of the type o£ construction and whether
there is a stage if the place of public assembly is located
above the first floor.
and other spaces, where combustible materials aze stored or
handled, of schools, public buildings, hospitals, and institu-
tional buildings hen such buildings are over two stories in
height or the total floor area exceeds 10,000 squaze feet.
]. All buil.d.i.ngs over sev my-five
(]5) feet in height regardless of location, throughout the
entire building.
8. A11 buildings in excess of twenty
thousand square feet (20,000 sq. £t.), regazdless of location o
construction, when used (a) foz the manufacture, storage or
sale o£ combustible products or (b) as an office building ox
(c) for a Group [i Occupancy - through the entire building,
(hotels, apartment houses, dormitories, etc.)
SECTION 9: Establishment of Motor Vehicle Routes for
Vehicles Transporting Explosives and/or Blasting Agents. The
routes referred to in Section 12.](m) of the erre Preventvon
Code for vehicles tranaporting explosives and blasting agents
axe hereby established as follows:
(a) To include the easterly and westerly
directions of State Road 434 only. Vehicles transporting
explosives and blasting agents shall notify the Chief of the
F.vre Department, rn wr.vting, of such intent to enter r pass
through the City of Longwood, Flox ida. Such vehicle or vehicle
shall be escorted through the City by the chief of the Bureau
of Frre Prevention, the Police Department, or such person or
persons as the Chief of the Fire Department may designate.
(b) Should a vehicle or vehicles trans-
porting explosives and blasting agents become disabled while
passing through the City o£ Longwood, said vehicle ox vehicles
shall be repaired or towed from the City within four (4) hours
from the time the vehicle stops moving.
(e) The Chief o£ the Frre Department or
the Chief of the Bureau of Fue Prevention may authorize
alternate rosstes for the transporting of explosives and/or
blasting agents in extreme or unusual circumstances.
N 10: Establishment o£ Motor Vehicle Routes
fos Vehicles Transporting Hazardous Chemicals and/or Other
Dangerous Articles. The routes referred to in Section 20.14
of the Fire Prevention Code for vehicles transporting hazazdous
chemicals and other dangerous articles are hereby established
as follows:
(a) To include the easterly and westerly
directions of State Road 434 only. Vehicles transporting
hazardous chemicals and dangerous articles shall notify the
Chief of the Fire Department, in writing, of such intent to
enter ox pass throssgh the City of Longwood. Such vehicle or
vehicles shall be escorted through the City by the Chief of
the Bureau o£ Fixe Prevention, the Police Department, or such
person or persons as the Chief of the Frre Department may des-
ignate.
(b) Should a vehicle or vehicles trans-
porting hazardous chemicals and dangerous articles become
disabled while passing through the city of Longwood, said
vehicle or vehicles shall be repaired or towed from the
municipality within four (4) hours from the time the vehicle
stops moving.
(e) The Chief of the Fire Department oz
the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may authorize
alternate routes for the transporting of hazardous chemicals
and/or dangerous articles in extreme or vnnsual circumstances.
SECTION 11: (a) The Chie£ of the Fire Department
shall have power to modi £y any o£ the provisions of the Fire
Prevention Code upon application in writing by the owner or
Ses see or his duly authorized agent when there axe 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 sssch modification, when granted ox allowed,
and the decision of the Gief of the Fire Department thereon,
shall be entered upon the records of the department and a
signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
(b) Whenever the Chie£ of the F1re
Department shall disapprove an application or refuse to grant
a permit applied for, or when it is claimed that the provision
of the code does 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 Cnie£ of the Fir
-epartment to the City Council within thirty (30) days from
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the decision appealed.
SECTION 12: Any person who shall violate any of the
provisions of the code hereby adopted, or fail to comply
therewith, or who shall build in violation o£ any detailed
statement of specifications or plans submitted or approved
thereunder or any certificate or permit issued thereunder,
shall severally for each and every such violation and non-
compliance, respectively, be punishable by a fine of not more
than Three Hundred Dollars (5300.00) or by imprisoeunent for not
more than sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and impx isonnertt
N 13: All ordinances of pazts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 14: Should any section, sentenc paragraph,
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
ity Council that it would have passed all other portions o£
this Ordinance and of the code hereby adopted independent of
the elimination here from of any such portion as may be declared
invalid.
SECTION 15: This Ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its final passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of March
ei asm RF,ADxNC: Februarv 23. 19]3
SECOxD REAniNG: March 15, 19]3
CHHIRMAN of Ua:e city ouncil of
AATE n/J / he City of ongwrood, lorida
CITY CGEAK
MAYOR a the City Lo gwood,
Flori
2, ONNLE K. SHOMATE, as City Clerk of the city of
Longwood, Florida, do hereby testify that I did, on the l6th_
day of A.D. 19]3, past three (3) true and
correct copies of the foregoing Ordinance No. 321
three (3) public places in the City of Longwood, Florida,
namely:
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Ifni ted States Past-Office
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ONNIE A. sHOMATE, C1TY CLERK ~_