ORD NO 25-1996 CITY OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
ORDINANCE NO. 2.. —1996
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 1994 NFPA 101 LIFE SAFETY CODE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VAN BUREN,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1: There is hereby adopted by the City that certain code
known as the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 1994 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: The Code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief
of the Van Buren Fire Department.
SECTION 3: 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 of the code shall be
observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice
done. The particulars of such modifications when granted
or allowed and the decisions of the Fire Chief thereon
shall be entered upon the records of the Fire Department
and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant.
SECTION 4: Whenever the Fire Chief 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 Fire Chief to the Van Buren
City Council within thirty (30) days from the date of the
decision appealed.
0
SECTION 5: (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
thereunder, 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 Van Buren City Council 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 Twenty -five ($25.00)
Dollars nor more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars. The
imposition of one (1) 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 (10) 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.
SECTION 6: All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 7: 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 8: Whereas it is of the utmost urgency that the City of Van
Buren, Arkansas have an up -to -date Life Safety 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.
0
MAYOR
ATTESTED:
CIT B'' /TREASURER
8