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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-238Oi~DINANCE NO. NS-238 .~NDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF TME UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1955 EDITION THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That those sections of the Uniform ~uilding Code, 1955 Edition, adopted by Ordinance No. NS-147al~$ hereby amended in those particulars only as next heretnbelow set out. (a) The first paragraph of subdivision (c) of Section 301 is here- by amended Ko read as follows: .(c) Plans and SDecifications. With each application for a building permit, and when required by the Building Official for enforcement of any pro- visions of this Code, two sets of plans and specifications shall be submitted. The Building Official may require Plans and Specifications to be prepared and designed by an engineer or architect licensed by the State to practice as such." (b) Paragraph 9 of Section 402 is hereby amended to read as follows: (c) "ASSEMBLY BUILDING is a building used, in whole or in part, for the gaShering together of ~rsons for such purposes as deliberation, worship, entertair~ment, amusement, or awaiting transportation and restaurants with an occupant load over 200." Exception~l of SectiOn 507 is hereby amended to read as follows: EXCEPTIONS: 1. ~Towers, spires and steeples, erected or a part of a building and not used for habitation or storage, are limited as to height only by structural design if completely of'uncombusti~le materials, or may extend not to exceed twenty feet (20') above the height limit in Table No. 5D if of combustible materials. ~ (d) Division 2 of Section ll01 is hereby amended to read as follows: "DIVISION 2. Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, restaurants, undertaking parlors, printing plants, municipal police and fire stations, factories and workshops using materials not highly flammable or combustible, storage and sales rooms for combustible goods, paint stores without bulk handling. (See Section 402 under assembly buildin~s for a definition of restaurants with an occupant load over 200). (e) That the second paragraph, subdivision (a) of Section 1405 is hereby amended to read as follows: "The window area in bathrooms, water-closet compartments, and other similar rooms shall be not less than three square feet (3 sq. ft.), and may open on a vent shaft which has a least dimension open and unobstructed to the sky of not less than three feet (3'). In lieu of the foregoing requirement a mechanical ventilation system capable of producing a change of air every five 1. minutes and connected directly to the outside may be installed." (f) That subdivision (b) of Section 3302 is hereby amended to read as follows: (b) Number of Exits. Buildings, or portions thereof, h~ving an occupant load of more than l0 shall have not less than two exes. Buildings, or portions thereo~ having an occupant load of 500 to 999 shall have not less than three exits. Building~ or portions thereof, having an occupant load of 1000 or more shall have not less than four exits. Basements or cellars used for other than service of the building, shall have not less than two exits." (g) Th~subdivision (h) of Section 3305 is hereby amended to read as follows: (h~ Exterior Stairways. Every opening in the exterior wall of a building served by an exterior stai~vay used as a required exit shall be protected by an automatically closing Class "E" or "F" fire door or window if the opsning is within !~ tex~y feet (fO') of the stairway. ~CEPT!ON: Openings above or level with the highest portion of the stairway may be un- protected if not nearer than ten feet (10') to the stairway. Group H and I Occupancies not more than two (2) stor~s in height need not have protected openings. (h) That subsection i of Section 3801 is hereby amended to read as follows: "1. In every story, basement or cellar of a building when the floor area exceeds fifteen hundred square feet (1500 sq. ft.) and there is not provided at least twenty square feet (20 sq. ft.) of opening in each fifty lineal feet (50 lin. Ft.) or fraction thereof of exterior wall in the story, basoment or cellar on at leas$ one side of the.building~ ~enings shall have a minimum dimension of ~ot less than thirty inches (30")." SECTION 2. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the pass,age of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published with- in 15 days after its adop~ion~ This Ordinance shall take effect 30 days from and after the date of its adoption. ATTEST: STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY O~~ ORANC, E ) SS. CITY O~ SA~Ci TA ANA ) I, ERS{A HUNTER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced at the regular meeting of said Council held on the 18th day of Narch , 19~?, and was again considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 1st .day of April , 1957 and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to - wit; Dale H. Heinly, J. Ogden Narkel, William Jerome, Nilford W o Dahl COUNC II~[EN: C 0UNC II~/~N: COUNCILMEN: None None AYES, NOES, ABSENT,