ORD NO 24-1996 CITY OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
ORDINANCE NO. a 9 -1996
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 1992 ARKANSAS STATE FIRE PREVENTION
CODE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VAN BUREN,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1: That Section 11.20.01 of the Van Buren City Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"There is hereby adopted by the City for the
purpose of prescribing regulations governing
conditions hazardous to life and property from fire
or explosion, that certain code known as the
Arkansas State Fire Prevention Code, 1992 Edition,
and the whole thereof, save and except such
portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or
amended, of which code not less than three (3)
copies have been and now are filed in the office of
the City Clerk /Treasurer 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 corporate limits of
Van Buren, Arkansas."
SECTION 2: All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: The City Council 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 City Council that it would
have passed all other portions of this ordinance
independent of the elimination herefrom of any such
portion as may be declared invalid.
SECTION 4: Whereas it is of the utmost urgency that the City of Van
Buren, Arkansas have an up -to -date Fire Prevention Code
to protect the property and lives of the citizens of our
city, therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist
and this ordinance being necessary for the immediate
protection of the public peace, health and safety shall
take effect immediately on its passage and approval.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 15TH DAY OF JULY 1996.
MAYOR Yrr‘ 'r"` ATTESTED:
CITY LERK/ EASURER
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