186ORDINANCE NO. I- 6
AN ORDINANCE Providing for fire limits, and
regulations governing the construction, alter-
ation, removal, demolition, equipment, use and
occupancy, location and maintenance of buildings
and structures
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Town Council of the
Town of Atlantic Beach, Florida:
Section 1. Adoption of Building Code.
There is hereby adopted (subject to the modifications,
changes and amendments hereinafter set forth in Section 6
hereof) by the Town Council of the Town of Atlantic Beach,
for the purpose of establishing_ rules and regulations for the
construction, alteration, removal, demolition, equipment, use
and occupancy, location and maintenance of buildings and struc-
tures, including permits and penalties, that certain building
code known as "The Southern Standard Building Code, 1953-1954
revision", filed and adopted by the Southern Building Code
Congress, and the whole thereof, save and except such portions
as are hereinafter in Section 6 hereof deleted, modified
or amended, of which not less than three copies have been and
are now filed in the office of the Clerk of the Town of
Atlantic Beach, 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 in the construction of all buildings and
other structures within the corporate limits of the Town of
Atlantic Beach.
Section 2. The Establishment of Office of Building Official.
a) The office of building official is hereby created
and the executive official in charge shall be known as the
Building Official;
b) The Building Official shall be appointed by the
Town Council, and shall serve at the pleasure of said Town
Council.
c) During temporary absence or disability of the
Building Official, the said Town Council shall designate an
acting Building Official.
d) The Building Official, with the approval of the
Town Council, may appoint such inspectors and assistants as
shall be authorized from time to time.
Section 3. Duties of the Building Official.
It shall be the duty of the Building Official to enforce all
laws relating to the construction, alteration, removal and
demolition of buildings and structures.
Section 4. The Building Official, in the discharge
of his official duties and upon proper identification, shall
have authority to enter any building, structure or premises at
any reasonable hour.
Section 5. Definitions.
a) Wherever the word "City" or the word "Municipality"
is used in said Building Code, it shall be held to mean the
Town of Atlantic Beach.
b) Wherever the words"Building Official"are used in
said Building Code, it shall be held to mean the Building
Official appointed pursuant to Section 2 hereof.
Section 6. Amendments made in said Code.
The said Code is amended and changed in the following respects:
1) Sub -paragraph (b) of section 102.1 and the whole
of Section 102.2 and the whole of Section 102.3 of said Code
are hereby stricken and deleted.
2) The following additional sub -paragraph designated
d) is added to Section 107.4 as follows:
2.
107.4 (d). No fees shall be charged for permits and
inspections for construction, repair, or alteration
of any building work done on any property which is
owned and used exclusively for religious, scientific,
municipal, education3 1,literary or charitable purposes,
and which property is exempt from taxes by the Con-
stitution and Laws of the State of Florida".
3) Section 111.1 of said Code is hereby deleted and
stricken and the following is substituted therefor:
There is hereby established in said Town a
board to be called the Board of adjustments
and Appeals, which shall consist of five mem-
bers and who shall be appointed by the Town
Council".
4) Section 114 of said Code is hereby deleted and
stricken.
5) There is hereby added to Section 301.1 of said
Code, and immediately following said section, as it appears in
said Code, the following:
The first fire district shall include all that
certain territory of the Town embraced within
Business "A" Districts as the same are now or
may hereafter be established by zoning, ordinance
of the Town. The second fire district shall
embrace all the remaining territory of the said
Town not included in the first fire district."
6) There is hereby added to Section 706.7 of said
Code, and immediately following the same as it there appears
in said Code, the following:
Roofs shall be installed in accordance with
the manufacturer's specifications. All roofs
shall have a suitable metal eave drip. All
nails and exterior metal shall be galvanized
or otherwise suitably corrosive resistant."
7) There is hereby deleted and stricken from Section
1302.1 of said Gode the following words:
one and two-family dwellings may not be required
to have reinforced concrete footings or grillage
of steel "
8) There is hereby added to Section 1302.3 of said
Code, 4 at the end thereof, the following provision:
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Footings shall be continuous monolithic concrete
under exterior walls, reinforced with two 5/8 inch
deformed reinforcing rods for one-story buildings
and three 5/8 inch deformed reinforcing rods for
two-story buildings. Reinforcing rods shall be
placed in the lower one-third of the footings,
properly placed and fastened on metal saddles with
wire. Footings shall be six inches wider on each
side than the wall above$ shall be at least 8
inches thick and shall rest on firm soil at least
twelve inches below undisturbed soil.sr
9) There is hereby added to Section 1302.5 of said
Code an additional sub -paragraph (e), as follows:
All superstructure above the foundation shall
be protected with approved termite shields."
10) Section 1404.1 of said Code is hereby amended by
striking therefrom the figure (6), where the same appears in
line 2 of the third paragraph of said section, and substituting
in lieu thereof the figure (8), and further by adding at the
end of said section the following:
The uppermost 8 inches of any hollow concrete
masonry wall, and the uppermost 8 inches of the
wall of each story height, shall be a reinforced
concrete spandrel beam. Two 2 inch steel deformed
reinforcing rods shall be used as minimum reinforc-
ing. Reinforcing shall be increased at openings
to provide necessary strength. All masonry shall
be finished to provide a true and even surface
for wooden structural members. Such structural
members except floor joist shall be securely
fastened to the concrete bearing surface with
bolts (galvanized) not less than ? in diameter,
securely embedded in the concrete, and spaced not
more than 4 feet apart."
11) Section 1701.7 of said Code is amended by striking
from the fourth line of the first paragraph thereof the words:
except dwellings".
12) There is hereby added to Section 1704.8 of said
Code, and at the end thereof, the following:
rand' fastened with hurricane clip on each joist
or rafter."
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Section 7. Any person, firm,corporation or agent or
employee thereof who shall violate any provision of said Code
or this Ordinance, or fail to comply therewith, or any of the
requirements thereof, or who shall erect, construct, alter,
demolish or move any structure, or has erected, constructed,
altered, repaired, moved or demolished a building or structure
in violation of a statement or drawing submitted and approved
thereunder, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by fine
not exceeding% Soo or imprisonment for not c_._ceeding -6'
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each and every day
or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the
provisions of said Code or this Ordinance is committed or con-
tinued, shall be deemed a separate offense.
Section 8. Nothing in this ordinance or in said Code
shall be construed to affect any rights acquired or liability
incurred, nor any cause or causes of action accrued or existing
under any act or ordinance hereby repealed. Nor shall any
right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected
by this ordinance.
Section 9. The invalidity of any section or provision
of this ordinance, or of the said Code hereby adopted, shall not
invalidate any other section or provision thereof.
Section 10. Ordinances or parts thereof in force at
the time this ordinance shall take effect, and inconsistent
herewith, are hereby repealed.
Section 11. This ordinance shall take effect
days after its approval as required by law.
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1956.
1956.
Passed by the Town Council on first reading March 13,
Passed by the Town Council on second reading March 13,
gassed by the Town Council on third and final reading,
14lay 10, 1956, and certified to the Mayor.
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Attest: ei,e
Town Clerk
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Approved, day f May, 1956.
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