Ordinance No. 57-65-6 v .t'
ORDINANCE NO. 57-65-6
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION
CODE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING
CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY
FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH,
FLORIDA. as follows:
SECTION I. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code.
There is hereby adopted by the City of Atlantic
Beach for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing
conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or ex-
plosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code,
Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the American Insurance
Association, being particularly the 1965 edition thereof
and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are
hereinafter deleted, modified or amended (by section 4 of
this ordinance) , of which code not less than three (3)
copies have been and now are filed in the office of the
Clerk of the City of Atlantic Beach and the same are hereby
adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length
herein, and from the date of which this ordinance shall take
effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling within
the limits of the City of Atlantic Beach.
SECTION II. Enforcement.
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the
Chief of the Fire Department.
SECTION III. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which
Storage of Explosives and Blasting Agents,
Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside
Aboveground Tanks, and Bulk Storage of
Liquefied Petroleum Gases is to be Restricted.
The limits referred to in section 53b of the code
hereby adopted in which storage of explosives and blasting
agents is prohibited, the limits referred to in Section 74a
of the code hereby adopted in which storage of Class I
liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, and the
limits referred to in section 114 of the code hereby adopted,
in which bulk storage of liquefied petroleum gas is restrict-
ed are hereby established as follows: All areas of the City
of Atlantic Beach except those completely or hereafter zoned
as Business "B" or the area designated as "Industrial Zone"
in the City of Atlantic Beach, Florida.
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SECTION IV. Modifications.
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 pro-
vided that the spirit 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 signed copy shall be
furnished the applicant.
SECTION V. Appeals.
Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall dis-
approve 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 City Commission within 30 days from the
date of the decision appealed.
SECTION VI. Penalties.
(a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of the code hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who
shall violate or fail to comply with any order made there-
under, or who shall build in violation of any detailed
statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved
thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder,
and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail
to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the
City Commission or by a court of competent jurisdiction,
within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and
every such violation and noncompliance respectively, be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less
than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 or by imprisonment for not
less than 10 days nor more than 90 days or by both such fine
and imprisonment. The imposition of one penalty for any
violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to
continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct
or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable
time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that
prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a
separate offense.
(b) The application of the above penalty shall not be
held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
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SECTION VII. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances.
Ordinances No. 164 and No. 202 and any other former
ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with
the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby
adopted are hereby repealed.
SECTION VIII. Date of Effect.
This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its passage on final reading.
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Passed by the City Commission on first reading on August
23rd, 1965.
Passed by the City Commission on second and final reading
on September 13th, 1965.
Attest:
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Adele S. Grage, City Clerk
(SEAL)
This is to certify that the abovehe ,ordinllcfollo:airg its final
was posted I `f-,G
passage on /
Adele S. Grage, City Clerk