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PROTECTION DISTRICT OF .TME 'COUNTY OF COVTRA
Or TA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING,
REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO FIRES, AND FIRE
MENACES PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS TO MEANS
OF EGRESS AND ACCUMULATIONSOF RUBBISH
PLACES OF PUBLIC ISSEMBLAGEt PROHIBITING
INTERFERENCE WITH THE DUTIES OF FIREMEN
AND FIRE QITS "EN , REGULATING PARKING AT
FIRES, AND PROVIDING R HAITI ES FOR VIOLA-
TIONS OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF.
AFFIDAVIT OF POST COP I E OR I OO
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
COUNTYOF CONTRA COSTA
GEORGE L. BERRY being duly sworn, says that he is
and at all times herein mentioned was a citizen o the
United States,, aver the age of twenty-one (21) years; that
on the 5th day of Oeteber i` , he posted three (3)
true and correct copies of 6rdinance Na, 374 in three ( 3)
places withinthe bsunAeriee of the ORINDI COUNTY FIRE
PROTECTION DISTRICT:
I. On the bulletin board of the Orinda ilre House
2. On e pole at Morega Highway and 6anborn Road
3• On a pole at lora e Road and Oak Springs Road
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ORDINANCE
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N ORDINANCE OF THE ORS' -COORMA-COUWY FINE PROTECTION
DISTRICT OF THE COUNTYOF CONTRA COSTA, STATE O
CALIFOFa,11A, ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO
NS TO
FIRES AND FIRE MENACES PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIOI
9 OF EGRESS AND ACOMOLA.TIONS OF RMBISH
PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSM11BLAGE. PROHIBITING INTERFER-
ENCE WITH THE DUTIES OF FIEVWN AND FIRE EQUIPMENT,
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ING PARMIG AT FIRES* AND PROVIDING PENALTIES
ICOR VIOLATIONS OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONSTHEREOF.
SECTION i.. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
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copartnership, association, or corporation to throw place, (except
in the course of burning pursuant to permit granted by the Chief o
the Fire Dpartmet of the Qrina-County Fire protection District) or
permit to stand on any land within the said District any rubbish,
true cutting or otter inflamable material,
SECTION IIS It shall be unlawful for any person, firm oo-
partnership, association or corporation to build, light, maintain or
oause or permit to be built, lighted or maintained, any open or out-
door fire without first obtaining a written permit therefor from the
Chief of the Fire Department of the said District, or without comply-
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with the instructions contained in said permit. The said permit
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shall be issued by said Chief of the Fire Department upon request
therefor whenever he determines that open or out-door burning can be
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pp accomplished at the location requested by the person, firm, eo-part-=
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nership, assooiation, or corporation making said request without
creating a fire menace to the eommunity embraced in the said Distriot
and/or adjoining areas. Said permit shall specify the person., firm,
ao-partnership, association, or corporation to whom it is issued, shall
set forth the location at which burn.ing is permitted, shall set forth
the expiration sate of said permit which shall not extend beyond the
next ensuing first day of April following the date of the request,
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shall be revocable by said Chief of the Fire Department whenever he
determines that the person, firm, co-partnership, association or
corporation has failed to comply with the instructions contained in
said
permit, and shall set .forth the following instructions:
'l. Do not build, light or maintain any open or out-door
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fire after 12:00 ovolock noon or before sunrise except in a barbecue
pit approved in writing by the Chief of the Fire Department.
j . Before leaving any tout-door or open fire throughly
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extinguish the same by completely covering t with dirt, saturating it
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with ter or ce ise treating i in such a manner as to prevent
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rekindling of such fire.
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. Do not build, light or maintain an open or cut-door fire
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except in a barbecue pit or an incinerator approved, in writing by the
I� Chief of the Orinda Fire Department, located in an area approved by
said Chief; provided, however, that you may build, light or maintain an
cogen or outdoor fire in other places on the property referred to in your
permit, if you call. the Fire Department each morning that you intend. to
If do so and receiveadvanee approval from a member of the Fire Department.
a Have water immediately available in sufficient qu tity
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to extinguish each fire you build, light, ormaintain."
SECTION . It shall be unlawful ul for any person., firm, co-
partnership, association or corporation to place or maintain, or to
cause or permit to be placed or maintained, any obstruction, whether
permanent or movable,, before or upon any fire escape, exit, foyer, aisle,
passageway, corridor, or any ether means of egress from any theatre,
church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for
public assemblage, while open to the public, in the said Crinda-County
Fire Protection District, of the County of Contra Costa, State of Calif-
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No persons shall be allowed to attend or assemble in the
aisles or passageways, during any time while any of the aforesaid des-
cribed buildings or places are being used for public assemblage.
All exit doors of such buildings or places shall open out
and during the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage,
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A shall not be fastened in any manner except by self-releasing hardware
installed, thereon., which doors and hardware shall be maintained to
open freely.
SECTION 17. It shall be unlawfuly for any person, firm
oo-partnership, association or corporation to accumulate, or to cause
or permit the accumulation of rubbish, rags, paper or other inflamable
refuse in any theatre, churrsh, hospital, auditoriums., meeting hall or
other place used for public assemblage in the said Orinda-County Fire
Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
n such manner as to constitute a fire menace.
CIN V. It shall be unlawful for any person., co-
partner-ships firm, association or corporation to disobey the lawful orders of
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any public officer or fireman in the immediate vicinity of the burning
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of brush, stumps, lags, Fallen timber, fallows, slash, grass, grain,
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brush, or forest covered .:land, or any other inflamable material in the
said Orinda-County Fire protection. District, of the County of Contra
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Costa, State of California, or offer any resistance to or interfere
with the lawful efforts of any public officer, fireman., or company of:.
firemen, to extinguish the same, or engage in any disorderly conduct
calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or forbid, pre-
vent or dissuade others from assisting to extinguish the same.
SECTION VI. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
Qo-partnership, association or corporation to ride, drive or propel
any vehicle or conveyance upon, over or across any fire hose or chemi-
cal hose used by or in charge of any fireman, or company or firemen in
the said. Orinda-County Fire protection District, of the County of Contra
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Costa, Mate of California, as to injure or damage in any manner any such
hese or fire apparatus of any kind.
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SEGEON VII. It shall be unlawful for any person, firms co—
partnership, association or corporation to park any vehicle upon any
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street or highway within three hundred ( 300) feet' of any burning building,
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or other burning structure, in the said Orinda-County Fire Protection
Districts of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; provided,
hover, that this section shall not apply to police officers or firemen
authorized by the Fire Officer in charge to so park vehicles.
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SECTION VIII. THE APPLICATION OF FLAMWLE FINMEMS.
General Requirements-,
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1. Definition. The term finishing shop" shall mean a
building or pert thereof used for the application of flammable finishes
by means of spraying or dipping.
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. Permits. A written permit from the Chief of said Fire
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Department shell be required for the operation of any finishing shop
using more than 1 ,gallon of material on any workingday, or storing in
hconnection with the use thereof, more than 5 gallons of flammable finish.
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3. Lopation, Finishing shops in buildings of wooden const-
ruction or in buildings used in whole or in part for human habitation or
n connection with stores shall be suitably out off by fire partitions or
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fire walls from ether portions of the building, and shall be equipped with
an automatic sprinkler system.
1 .. Storage of Flammable Finishes in Finishing ,Sho2s. The
storage of flammable finishes inside of finishing shops shall, be restricted
as follows
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(a) Not to exceed 20 gallons, with no container exceeding 1
gallon in capacity, may be stored on a substantial shelf at least 4 feet
above the floor and with suitable guard strips to
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(b) Not over 50 gallons with no container exceeding 5 gallons
capacity may be stored in a. cabinet, entirely enclosed and made of suit-
able stiffened sheet iron of at least 18 U.S. gauge in thickness, and
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double walled with li inch air space or equivalent construction. Doors
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shall. be of construction equivalent to the walls of the cabinets, be
pro'v'ided with 3-Point look, fit closely, and be kept closed when not in
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use. Door sills shall be raised at least 2 inches above the bottom of
the cabinet.
(o) Guantities in excess of those given under (a) and (b)
shall be in storage and mixing rooms approved in writing by the Chief of
saidFire -Department as suitable.
5. Mixing operations shall be carried on only in
storage rooms or special mixing rooms approved in writing by the Chief
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of said Fire 'Department as suitable; provided that containers of a total
capacity not exceeding gallons may be opened and their contents mixed
in the finishing roam, during such times as the ventilating system is
n operation.
(b) Receptacles containing flammable finishes shall be kept
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tightly covered.
6. Containers. (a) All containers of flammable able finishes
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shall be of metal .su tabl,y constructed to prevent leakage- I.C.C. con-
tainers shall be acceptable for storage.
(b) Containers used as a part of the spraying outfit s 1
be of metal, except that glass containers not exceeding 1 pint capacity,
so containers with glass inner linings of not more than 1 gallon papa-
city (protected with a metal holder or guard permanently fixed around the
container) may be used.
• enil.aion: (e 'finless suitable ventilated spV booths
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e used for all finishing operations, finishing rooms shall be contin-
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onti.n.ruou ly ventilated during operation,. Ventilation shall be such as to ef-
fect at least one complete change of air every three minutes.
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(b) 3zhaust outlets in finishing rooms shall be located ,not
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building. Stacks and ducts shall be of substantial construction With
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as directly as possible to the outside air and preferably not through
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other rooms, and be so arranged that the discharge of 'Vapor and residue
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or fire therefrom will not endanger property. They shall not be con-
netted to other ventil.atin.g or collecting systems.
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S. Lighting and Electrical E ui ent: Artificial lighting
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shall be by electricity only. All electrical wiring and equipment in
finishing shops shall be in accord with the Nationale Electrical Code
rules for Hazardous Locations.
ere spraying is done in
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i; portions of the room more than 20 feet from a booth need not be consi-
dered Hazardous Locations under the National. Electrical. Code . ..less
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such portions are so classified as the result of other operations. In
f the area within 20 feet of properly arranged spray booths the National
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Electrical Code rules for Hazardous Location may be modified to ailo
motors of the totally enclosed type or of the open induction type having
no brushes, make or break contacts, collectors or other arcing or spark-
ing parts, and to allow lamps of the enclosed vapor--tight type.
9. Housekeeping. (a) Fini thing shops shall be kept free
from all unnecessary combustible materials and refuse.
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b Floors of finishing shops, drain boards and the interior
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of spray booths shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once a day and all
fans, ducts, side walls and ceilings kept as olean as may be practicable
at all times* In cleaning, care shall be taken to ass implements which
ill not cmate sparks. Wherever practicable surfaces to be cleaned shalt
be sprayed or otherwise wet down with water before cleaning. epings
or deposits From spray booths or rooms, ducts or stacks shall be
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mediately removed from the building and safely dispensed of.
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o) Metal waste cans with self-olosing covers shall be pro-
vided for all waste and rags which have come in contact with paints,
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varnishes, and Cather finishing compounds.
lu. open Flames and HeallpE. No open flame shall be permitted
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in, storage or mixing rooms, storage cabinets, finishing rooms, or spray
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booths. For heating purposes indirect systems only, such as steam, hot
air or hot water, shall be used.
. .. Ground : All ,ete,l spray booths, d t s: be
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Evens, mixers, filters, pumps, motors and shafting steal! be electrically
grounded in an effective mannere
12. Fire ExtiRAUishin 'Zu en,t. The Chief of the said
Fire Department shall require the installation of portable fire extinguish-
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n uish-ere or other fire extinguishing applianoes as may be deemed necessary in
finishing rooms, or near storage cabinets and spray booths.
13. §e2KL . Smoking shall be prohibited in any room used
for the storage of flammable finishes and in any finishing roam. Suitable
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a l spraying shall be performed in a spray room or spray
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booth as specified below or its equivalent.
y� if spraying is performed in a room not provided with spray
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booths as herein provided, such spray room shall be separated from the re-
mainder of the building by partitions of fire-resistive construction,
equivalent to incombustible wallboard on wooden studding, cement or gypsum
plaster on metal 'Lath on wooden studding or wooden studding covered on
both sides with sheet iron. Doors in openings in spray room partition
shall, be equal in fire resistance to partition and shall be of the self-
closing type or so installed as to close automatically in case of Fire.
3 o Spray booths shall be of metal or other noncombustible
material and of amply size to acoo , ,oda.te the object to be sprayed...
d Spray booths shall be provided with exhaust systems o
sufficient capacity to adequately remove vapors or residues. Supply of
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air entering the room where the spray boot.hs are located shall be sub-
stantiall equivalent to the exhaust capacity provided.. Each spray booth
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shall, have an independent stack or vent, except that not more than 3
booths each with fess than 6 square feet frontal area may oonneot to one
stag. They shall be properly supported and shall have at least a 6-inch
clearance where passing through wooden floors, roofs, partitions or in
close proximity to them or other combustible material.
(e) Ventilating fans in spray rooms and booths shall be kept
in continuous operation while spraying is being carried on and shall not
be stopped until all flammable vapors have been removed*
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(f) Pails or reaeptaoles shall not exceed 10 gallons capa-
city for gravity food to spray guns and shall be kept covered with tight
fitting non-oorabustible covers. Only wire cables or those containing
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stranded wire cores shall be used to sustain gravity-feed pails
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!, Pails or receptacles containing flammable finishes shall, be
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returned to the storage cabinet or storage room at the close of each day.
° (g) No portable lamps shall be used inside spray room or
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booths. Lamps shall be prohibited inside spray booths and ducts and in
any location where there is possibility of the spray coming into direct
contaot with the lamp or fixture.
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Electric motors shall not be placed inside booths or ducts.
h Motor vehicles shall not be moved by their own power
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while in the finishing room. Electric storage batteries shall be re-
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15. Dip Tanks, Dip tanks having area in excess of 10
square feet shall be provided with approved covers arranged to close
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automatically in case of Fire and also arranged so that they can be closed
manually. Smaller dip tanks shall be provided, with suitable covers or
with asbestos blankets which can, be placed over the tanks. if dip tanks
are protected by an approved, automatic fire extinguishing system employing
a fire retardant chemical or ,has or water spray the covers specified
above :may be omitted.
16. 7apann n n elinJapanning and enameling drying
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ovens shall not be placed in contact with wood floors or other oombustible
material. lReating of ovens shall- be done by steam coils, indirect hot air
circulation through oven to outside, indirect hot oil circulating pipes
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indirect gas burners or electricity. Espen flames or fires shall not be in
communication with the compartments Y&ere goons are beim treated.
17. It shall be unlawful for the occupant of a finishing
shop to carry on his operations in violation of any of the above provisions
or to permit a violation of the above provisions; and it shalll be unlawful
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for the owner of the premises on which a finishing shop is located to per-
mit a violation of the above provisions.
SECTION . Any person, firm, oo-partnership, association
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or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a Pine not
# exceeding Five Hundred Dollars (4500-00) or by imprisonment not exoeed.ing
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six months or by both such Pine and imprisonment. Zvery separate act or
transaction in violation of this ordinance shall be deemed a separate of-
fense.
SECTION .. This ordinance shall, take effect after the
same shall have been posted in three ( ) of the most public places in the
said Orinda- ounty� Fire Protection District for a period 1L t (� weeks.
P 13 ARD ADOPTED by the saiu Board of Supervisors of the
fCounty of Contra Costa, State of California, this rgj--- ----------day of
x.91+6.
Supervisor S. B. RIPTIRY, Supervisor H. L. El SINGS, Super-
visor Y B. TAYLOR,, Supervisor W. Z. BUCHMAN, Supervisor R. J . TFXVBATH.
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'T E MINA
a ate'o l the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, state
ATTEST: of California.
Clerk of the s d Board of supe sors
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