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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 2192
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
AMENDING CHAPTER 14 OF THE SANTA ANA
MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE 1991 EDITION
OF THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 14-1 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-1. Adoption of the Uniform Fire Code, 1991 Edition.
There is hereby adopted by the city of Santa Aha that certain
code known as the "Uniform Fire Code, 1991 Edition," and the whole
thereof including the Appendices therein, and the accompanying
Uniform Fire Code Standards, save and except such portions as are
hereinafter deleted or amended, of which code not less than one (1)
copy has been and is now on file in the office of the clerk of the
council of the city of Santa Aha. The said code is adopted and
incorporated as fully as if set forth at length herein and, subject
to all amendments set forth in this article, shall be in effect
within the City of Santa Aha from the effective date of this
article. Any provision of this article amending the Uniform Fire
Code shall be construed as amending the 1991 Edition thereof
including such provisions enacted prior to this adoption of the
said 1991 Edition and not thereafter repealed. The said Uniform
Fire Code, 1991 Edition, as thus amended, together with all other
provisions of this article, shall be known as the "Fire Code of the
city of Santa Ana."
SECTION 2: That Section 14-17 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: That Section 14-25 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-25. Access roadways for apparatus (Section 10.204).
Section 10.204 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended to read as
follows:
(a) Required construction. Every building or portions of
buildings hereafter constructed shall have fire apparatus
access roadways. Such access roadways shall provide two (2)
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separate but interconnected means of ingress and egress.
Access shall be at least twenty (20) feet in clear width. A
forty-foot outside and twenty-foot inside radius shall be
provided wherever they make a turn. The total width shall be
continuously paved to accommodate forty thousand (40,000)
pounds and shall not exceed the angle of departure (eight (8)
degrees or fourteen (14) per cent) for fire apparatus on any
slope. Access roadways shall have a vertical clearance of not
less than thirteen (13) feet six (6) inches above the finished
driveway surface.
EXCEPTIONS:
When buildings are completely protected with an approved
automatic fire sprink'ler system, the provisions of this
section may be modified.
When access roadways cannot be installed due to
topography, waterways, nonnegotiable grades or other
similar conditions, the chief may require additional fire
protection as specified in Section lO.301(b).
When there are not more than two (2) Group R, Division 3
or Group M Occupancies, the requirements of this section
may be modified, provided, in the opinion of the chief,
firefighting or rescue operations would not be impaired.
(b) Required markings. Any owner or occupant of a private
parking area, including, but not limited to, private streets
or roadways, driveways, off-street parking facilities, alleys,
parking lots and any other nonpublic place where vehicles of
any type or kind are intended to be or are often found, must:
(1)
Post emergency fire lane signs as directed in subsection
(C), or
(2)
Paint appropriate curbs or pavement in red paint pursuant
to subsection (d) and as directed by the fire chief or
his designated representative.
(c) Signs. The fire chief or his designated
representative may direct the owner or occupant of the area
described in subsection (b) as to the location that said signs
must be posted by said owner or occupant. If not so directed,
the said owner or occupant must post signs in an obvious,
conspicuous location immediately adjacent to, and visible
from, the designated fire lane clearly stating in letters not
less than one (1) inch in height that the area is a fire lane.
(d) Paint. Ail painting to be performed as described in
subsection (b) shall consist of outlining or painting the
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designated fire lane in red and, in contrasting color, marking
the place with the words "FIRE LANE" which are clearly visible
from a vehicle, or by painting a red curb or red paint on the
edge of the roadway upon which is clearly marked the words
"FIRE LANE."
(e)
(1)
Obstructing emergency access lane.
The required width of any fire apparatus access
road shall not be obstructed in any manner. Minimum
required widths and clearances established under
this section shall be maintained at all times.
(2)
(3)
No person shall cause or permit any vehicle,
including, but not limited to, automobile,
motorcycle, truck, bicycle or any other vehicle in
his control or ownership, to be stopped in an area
designated for emergency vehicles.
This section applies to all nonemergency vehicles
whatsoever, attended or unattended, stopped for any
length of time except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with
directions of a police officer or fireman.
(4) Any vehicle found in violation of this section may
be towed at the owner's or operator's expense at
the request of any Santa Ana police officer,
parking control officer, California Highway Patrol
officer, Orange County deputy sheriff or any fire
department personnel described in section 1-18 of
this Code.
(f) Extent. The access roadway shall be extended to
within one hundred fifty (150) feet of all portions of the
exterior walls of the first story of any building. Where the
access roadway cannot be provided, approved fire protection
system or systems shall be provided as requiredand approved by
the fire marshal.
(g) Fire protection alternate. Where fire protection
systems approved by the fire marshal are provided, the above
required clearance may be modified.
(h) Oversizing. The fire marshal shall have the authority
to require an increase in the minimum access width where such
width is not adequate for fire or rescue operations.
(i) Bridges. Where a bridge is required to be used as
access under this section, it shall be constructed and
maintained in accordance with the applicable sections of the
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building code and using design live loading sufficient to
carry the imposed loads of the fire apparatus.
(j) Misdemeanor violations. Any violation of subsections
(b), (c) or (d) of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
(k) Infraction violations. Any violation of subsection
(e) of this section shall be deemed an infraction.
SECTION 4: That Section 14-27 of the Santa Aha Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-27. Building height regulation (Section 10.207).
Section 10.207 is added to the U~iform Fire Code, to read as
follows:
Section 10.207. No building shall hereafter be
constructed which exceeds fifty-five (55) feet in height,
measured from the pavement surface of fire department
vehicular access to the top of the floor surface of the
for human occupancy, unless either:
(b)
highest story designed
(a) The building complies with all the standards and
regulations adopted pursuant to Chapter 3 of Part 2
of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code of the
State of California for a new highrise structure,
as defined in Section 13210 of the said Health and
Safety Code; or
The building is accessible to fire department
laddering equipment and overhead hose streams on at
least two (2) sides, the height of which do not
exceed the laddering capability of the fire
department.
SECTION 5: That Section 14-30 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Bec. 14-30. Installations of automatic sprinkler
(Section 10.501(b)).
systems
Section 10.501, subsection (b), of the Unifor~ Fire Code is
amended by adding to said subsection the following paragraphs:
An automatic sprinkler system must be installed in
buildings hereafter constructed, or when additions,
alterations, or repairs are such as to require the building to
comply with all the requirements of the building code of the
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city of Santa Ana for new buildings, in either of the
following circumstances:
(a)
(b)
The building would require a fire flow of more than
three thousand five hundred (3,500) gallons per
minute if such system were not installed;
The building exceeds two (2) stories in height,
unless the building is designed for Group R
occupancies, as defined in the building code of the
city of Santa Ana, or is a building or structure
accessory thereto.
EXCEPTION: Open, freestanding parking structures, whether
or not such structures exceed two (2) stories in height,
constructed of noncombustible materials above grade, and
meeting all of the provisions of the building code of the city
of Santa Ana and National Fire Protection Association Standard
88A, need not be provided with automatic fire sprinklers
unless such sprinklers would be required due to the area and
height limitations of the building code of the city of Santa
Ana, Table No. 7A, Chapter 38, or the estimated fire flow
exceeds five thousand five hundred (5,500) gallons per minute.
Where a conflict exists between the building code of the City
of Santa Ana and National Fire Protection Association Standard
No. 88A, the more restrictive requirements shall apply.
An automatic sprinkler system must be installed in any
portion of a building, whether newly constructed or
preexisting, in or into which either of the following uses is
initiated or expanded:
(a)
A place of public assemblage which provides for the
gathering together of one hundred (100) or more
persons, for such purposes as deliberation,
education, instruction, worship activities,
entertainment, amusement, or the awaiting of
transportation, or in a dining or drinking
establishment;
(b) A Group H Occupancy, as defined in the building
code of the City of Santa Ana.
All sprinkler systems shall have the Fire Department
pumper connection located at the property line, on the address
side of the building as close as practical to the public
hydrant.
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SECTION 6: That Section 14-31 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-31. Fire flow requirements (Section 10-401).
Section 10.401 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended to read as
follows:
No building shall hereafter be constructed which would
require a fire flow of more than five thousand five hundred
(5,500) gallons per minute. No existing building shall be
added to, altered, or changed in the character of its
occupancy so as to increase its required fire flow above five
thousand five hundred (5,500) gallons per minute. No existing
building which currently requires a fire flow of more than
five thousand five hundred (5,500) gallons per minute shall be
added to, altered, or changed in the character of its
occupancy if such addition, alteration, or change would
increase the fire flow required for such building.
No building shall hereafter be ~onstructed, and no
additions, alterations, or repairs shall be made to an
existing building within any twelve-month period which exceed
twenty-five (25) per cent of its value, and no existing
building shall be changed in the character of its occupancy so
as to increase the fire flow required for such building,
unless fire hydrants and appurtenant water supply capable of
delivering the fire flow that will be required for such
building, with a residual pressure measured at the hydrant
outlet of not less than twenty (20) pounds per square inch
during times of average daily consumption, are located in
accordance with the following distance limitations:
In any case where this requirement applies solely by
reason of additions, alterations, or repairs to an
existing building; and in the case of new construction of
a building designed for Group R, Division 3 occupancy, as
defined in the building code of the city of Santa Ana, or
building or structure accessory thereto: the required
hydrant or hydrants must be located within five hundred
(500) feet of all portions of the exterior walls of the
building or be protected. Such required hydrant or
hydrants may be located either on a public street or on
the site of the premises to be protected.
In all other cases: The required hydrant or hydrants
shall be located on the site of the premises to be
protected, except that any required hydrant may be
located on a public street if such location is within one
hundred fifty (150) feet of all portions of the exterior
walls of the building to be protected.
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Where more than one fire hydrant is located on the site
of the premises to be protected, or where a combination of
hydrants located on such site and a public street are used to
meet the distance requirements, the required fire flow in
gallons per minute may be divided between such hydrants
provided:
1. That the combination of hydrants will deliver the
required flow, and
2. That no single hydrant has a flow of less than one
thousand five hundred (1,500) gallons per minute
with a residual pressure measured at the hydrant
outlet of not less than twenty (20) pounds per
square inch during times of average daily
consumption.
Water supply may consist of reservoirs, pressure tanks,
elevated tanks, water mains, or other fixed system capable of
supplying the required fire flow, subject to the approval of
the fire marshal. The precise location, number and type of
fire hydrants connected to a water supply to be provided in
accordance with this subsection shall be subject to the
approval of the fire marshal. All hydrants shall be accessible
to the fire department apparatus by roadways meeting the
requirements of Section 10.204.
No use of an existing building, or any portion thereof,
for either a place of assemblage or a Group H occupancy, as
defined in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, shall be
initiated or expanded unless the building as a whole will
comply with the requirements of this subsection (c) such as
would apply to the new construction of such building for the
same uses.
SECTION 7: That Section 14-32 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
sec. 14-32. Valuation of existing buildings (Section 10.207).
Section 10.207 is added to the Uniform Fire Code to read as
follows:
For purposes of this section, an existing building or
structure shall be deemed to have a value equal to the current
cost of construction of a building or structure of the same
size and type of construction. In determining such value, the
fire marshal shall be guided by the most recent building
valuation data published by the International Conference of
Building officials.
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SECTION 8: That Section 14-33 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-33. Determination of require4 fire flow (Section
10.401(b)).
The text of Section 10.401 as it appears in the Uniform Fire
Code is designated as Subsection (a) of Section 10.401 and
Subsection (b) is added to Section 10.401 of the Uniform Fire Code
to read as follows:
(b) In determining the fire flow requirements for any
building, structure, or fire area, the fire marshal shall
proceed in accordance with the standards set forth in that
certain "Santa Ana Fire Department Guide for Determination of
Fire Flows," of which not less than one (1) copy is on file in
the office of the clerk of the council of the City of Santa
Aha.
SECTION 9: That Section 14-34 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-34. Historical property (Section 10.401(c)).
Subsection (c) is added to Section 10.401 of the Uniform Fire
Code to read as follows:
(c) (~)
(2)
(3)
This subsection applies only to buildings, or
portions thereof, which have been designated as
historical property pursuant to section 30-1 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code, and which would require
either the installation of an automatic sprinkler
system, or the installation of one or more fire
hydrants with appurtenant water supply, or both, in
order to comply with this section, by reason of the
additions, alterations or repairs or changes of
occupancy proposed for such building.
An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed in
any portion of such building which is to be used as
a place of public assemblage or a Group H
occupancy, as defined in the building code of the
City of Santa Ana.
Subject to the overriding requirement of paragraph
(2) of this subsection, changes to buildings within
the scope of this section shall be subject to
approval on the following standard: Installations
of automatic sprinkler systems or fire hydrants
shall be required only to the extent necessary to
avoid an increase in the risk of fire occurring,
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(4)
the danger to life in the event of fire, or the
difficulty of fire suppression or to avoid a
prolongation of any especially hazardous situation.
The need of such installations or alternative fire
protection requirements shall be evaluated in view
of any modifications in building safety standards
due to application of the state historical
buildings code, and the fire marshal shall
coordinate his review with that of the building
official in this regard. The fire marshal may
impose alternative fire protection requirements on
building changes within the scope of this section
as appropriate to maintain this standard and shall
waive any requirement of this section which is
inconsistent therewith.
The fire marshal shall give priority to building
changes within the scope of this section which are
submitted for his review by the community
redevelopment agency.
SECTION 10: That Section 14-38 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
sec. 14-38. Accidental alarms (Section 13.204).
Section 13.204 is added to the Uniform Fire Code, to read as
follows:
Section 13.204.
(a) As used herein, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
"accidental alarm" means an alarm, message, signal, or notice
received by the fire department as a result of the failure of
a fire alarm system to function properly.
"manually activated alarm system" means a non-residential
alarm system which is activated while the business is open
and/or occupied and activated by the deliberate acts of an
employee, or a residential alarm system designed to be
activated by a tenant from within a residential unit. It does
not include manual pull stations activated from areas
accessible to the public.
"automatic alarm system" means an alarm system other than a
manually activated alarm system. It does not include manual
pull stations activated from areas accessible to the public.
(b) When accidental alarms are received by the fire
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department, the fire chief is authorized to demand that the
user of the responsible fire alarm system correct, replace, or
disconnect such system.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of
this section, any person having an alarm system which results
in a fire department response in which the alarm proves to be
an accidental alarm shall pay a penalty assessment fee to the
city as follows:
(1) Accidental alarms received by the city fire
department from automatic alarm systems which are
in excess of the maximum allowable number, as set
forth in paragraph (3) of this subsection, shall
result in an automatic alarm penalty assessment in
such amount as shall be set by resolution of the
city council.
(2) Alarms from manually activated alarm systems which
are in excess of the maximum allowable number of
false alarms, as set forth in paragraph (3) of this
subsection, shall result ~n a manually activated
alarm penalty assessment in such amount as shall be
set by resolution of the city council.
(3) Penalty assessments shall be made for accidental
alarms which number more than one (1) in any
thirty-day period; or more than two (2) within any
ninety-day period; or more than three (3) within
any one-year period.
(d) Commencing with the date of a new alarm installation
and continuing until the date six (6) months thereafter, or
until there have been three accidental alarms from such new
alarm installation, whichever first occurs, subsection (c) of
this section shall not apply to accidental alarms from such
new alarm installation.
(e) The fire chief reserves the right to discontinue
response by fire department personnel to any location of a
silent or audible alarm when:
(1) The alarm user has been given written notice and
assessed six (6) penalty assessments within a
one-year period; or
(2) The alarm user has failed to pay any such penalty
assessment.
Reinstatement may occur when the alarm user has taken steps to
eliminate or correct the problem(s) and has documented the
corrective action in writing to the fire chief.
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~: That Section 14-40 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
seo. X4-40.
Building maintenance and housekeeping (Article 11,
Division VII).
Article 11 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended by adding
Division VII, consisting of Sections 11.701 and 11.702, thereto, to
read as follows:
DIVISION VII. BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND HOUSEKEEPING
Building Maintenance.
Section 11.701. All buildings and premises shall be
maintained in good repair, free from any condition that
presents a fire hazard or any condition which would add to or
contribute to the rapid spread of fire.
Housekeeping.
Section 11.702. Ail buildings and premises shall be
maintained in good repair and in a clean and orderly manner.
Provisions shall be made for the proper storage and disposal
of waste materials and rubbish consistent with the following:
(a)
(b)
Ail basements, cellars, floors, closets, attics and
other similar places not open to continuous
observation, shall be kept free from combustible
litter and rubbish at all times.
All combustible waste material and rubbish shall be
stored in approved noncombustible containers or
receptacles, or consistent with approved fire
prevention practice, until such time as such waste
material is removed from the premises or otherwise
properly disposed of. All such waste containers,
other than convenience waste receptacles emptied at
the close of each day, shall be provided with
tightfitting, noncombustible covers.
SECTION 12: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding a section, to be numbered 14-48, which said
section reads as follows:
Bec. 14-48. Fireworks (Beotion 78.202).
Section 78.202 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 78.202. The storage, use and handling of fireworks
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is prohibited.
RXCEPTIONB: 1. Storage and handling of fireworks is
allowed aa aet forth in Article 77.
2. The use of fireworks for display ia allowed as set
forth in Section 78.203.
3. The use of State Fire Marehal approved Safe-and-Sane
Fireworks is allowed as regulated by Article II (commencing
with section 14-51) of Chapter 14 of the Santa Aha Municipal
Code.
SECTION
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Bec. 14-49. Deletions from Uniform Fire Code.
The following parts of the Uniform Fire Code
deleted:
Appendix II-C
Appendix III-A;
Appendix III-B;
Appendix VI-C.
13: That Section 14-49 of the Santa Ana Municipal
are hereby
SECTION 14: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of
the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted
this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions be dec].ared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 15: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the
repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the
prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as
affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the
collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provision
applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of
any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted,
filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and
obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force
and effect.
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ADOPTED this 20th day of
ATTEST:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young Aye
Pulido Aye
Lutz Aye
Mills Aye
Moreno Aye
Norton Aye
Richardson Aye
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April , 1993.
Young~ /
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Edward J.'C~
city Attorney
CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY & PUBLICATION
State of California
County of Orange
I, JANICE C. GUY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby certify the
attached Ordinance NS-~/~-~ to be the original ordinance
adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on
~--ff-~3 ; and that said ordinance was published in
accordance with the Charter of the city of Santa Aha.
~l~of the Council, Dat
city of Santa Ana