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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 01271947 - 0383 77777777 in the utter of Ordinance o. 383, being an `ordinance of the Eastern Contra Costa County Fire Protection District of the Countyof ContraCosta' State of California, establishing reguis,tiona pertaining' to Fires and fire menaces pro- F3 ° , /' /* nib ting obsttctons to T. ISA A�t +CH Means of egress and accumu- sur* sso�e 1stions rUbbjLshL in p3.aces o r cca sir ofL publlcL assemblage, pro- h ibiting interference with the duties of firemen and fire Le qjji PM: entL regulating parking at fires, and provid- ing penalties for Violations.s Of any of the provisions thereof a AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING STATE I OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF CONTR COSTA � GEORGE T. BAPKLEY being dUlyL sworn says: That he Lis now and at all times hereinafter mentioned was a CLitizen of the United States, over the age of 21 .years,L Land not a party to the above entf t .ed matters and not interested therein, nor in the event thereof g 'that' on the th day Of January 1947, he pasted a true OOPYLL of L the attached ordinance nUMbereAL 383, at the following places to Wit; 1. On a telephone pole, junction of County Roads B- 6, B-53 and B-32. 2. OnLL a telephone L pole at entrance to County Farm, 3 On a telephone pole, Junction OfL County Roads D-5 and D-12. Subscribed and swo r to before me# this day of Jantz L Ly, l9a ORDINANCE 3 AN ORDINANCE OF THE EASTERN CONTRA COSTA. COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA., ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS PERTAIN- ING II G TO FIRES AAM FIRE IMUCES PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS TO IMANS OF EGRESS AND ACCUMULATIONS OF RUBBISH IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLAGE. PROHIBITING IN''E MC1 'WITH TBE DUTIES OF FI M' AND FIRE EQUIPMENT, REGULA- TING PAMNG AT FIRES, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF ASN OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation to throw place, (except in the course of burning pursuant to permit granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Eastern Contra Costa County Fire Pro- tection District) or permit to stand on any land withinthe said District any rubbish, tree cutting or other inflamable material.. SECTION II. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm copartnership, association or corporation to build, light, maintain or cause or permit to be built, lighted or maintainer, any open or outdoor fire without first obtaining a written permit therefor from the Chief of the Fire Department of the said District, or without complying with the instructions contained in said permit. The said permit shall be issued by said. Chief of the Fire Department upon request therefor whenever he determines that open or outdoor burning can be accomplished at the location requested by the person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation making said request with- out creating a fire menace to the community embraced in the said Dist- triot and/or adjoining areas. Said permit shall specify the person, firm, oo-partnership, association, or corporation to whom it is issued, shall set forth the location at which burning is permitted, shall set forth the expiration date of said permit v&ich shall not extend beyond the next ensuing first day of April following the date of the request, shall be revocable by said. Chief of the Fire Depart- ment whenever he determines that the person, firm, co-partnership, assocation or corporation has failed to comply with the instructions i. contained in said permit, and shall set forth the following instructions "1. Do not build, light or maintain any open or outdoor fire after 12:00 o'clock noon or before sunrise except in a barbecue pit approved in writing by the Chief of the Fire Department. 2. Before leaving any outdoor or open fire thoroughly extinguish the same by completely covering it with dirt, saturating it with water or otherwise treating it is such a manner as to prevent rekindling of such fire. 3. Do not build, light or maintain an open or outdoor fire except in a barbecue pit or an incinerator approved in writing by the Chief of the Eastern Contra Costa. County Fire Protection Dist- riot, located in an area approved by said Chief; provided, however, that you may build, light or maintain an open 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 do so and receive advance approval from a member of the Fire Department. 4. Have water immediately available in sufficient quantity to extinguish each fire you build, light, or maintain." SECTION III. It shall be unlawful 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 Other 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 Eastern Centra Costa County Fire Protection District, of the County of Contra Costa, State of California. No persons shall be allowed to attend or assemble in the aisles or passageways, during any time while any of the aforesaid described buildings or places are being used for publics assemblage. 2. ........... . ... All exit doors of such buildings or places shall open out and during the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be Fastened in any manner except by self- releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and hardware shall be maintained to open, Freely. CTICX IV. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm oo-partnership, association or corporation to aooumuate, or to cause or permit the accumulation of rubbish, rage, paper or other inf'lamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium:, meetinglall or other place used for public assemblage in the said. Eastern Contra Costa County Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, in such manner as to constitute a fire menace. SECTION V. It shall be unlawful for any person co-partner-- ship, firm, association or corporation to disobey the lawful orders of any public officer or fireman in the immediate virginity of the burning of brush, stumps, logs, fallen timber, (allows, slash, ,grass, ,grain, brush, or forest covered land., or any other inflamable material in the said Eastern Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, of the County of Contra Costa, Mate of California, or offer any resistance to or interfere with the lawful ef'f'orts 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, prevent or dissuade others from assist- ing to extinguish the same. SECTION VI. It shall be unlawful for any person., firm, co-partnership, association or corporation to ride, drive or propel any vehicle or conveyance upon, over or across any fire hose or chemical hose used by or in charge of any fireman, or company or fire- men in the said Eastern Contra Costa Counter Fire Protection district, of the County of Contra Costa, Mate of California, as to injure or damage in any manner any such hose or fire apparatus of any kind. 3• SECTION V11. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, oo-partnership, association or corporation to park any vehicle upon any street or highway within a distance from a burning building or other oonflagral. on determined to be dangerous for said parking of vehicles by the Fire Chief or his subordinate of'f'icers in the said 3astern Contra Costa County Fire Poteotion District, of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to police officers or firemen authorized by the Fire Officer in charge to so park vehicles. SECTION VIII. M APPLICATION OF F14UB FINI BE : General Requirements: 1. Definition. The term "finishing shop" shall mean a building or part thereof used for the application of flammable finishes by means of spraying or dipping. 2. Pew written permit from the Chief of said Fire Department shall be required for the operation of any finishing shop using more than 1 gallon of material on any working day, or storing in connection with the use thereof, more then 5 gallons of flammable finish. 3. Location, Finishing shops in buildings of wooden const- ruction or in buildings used in whole or in part for human habitation or in connection with stores shall be suitably out off by fire partitions or fire walls from other portions of the building, and shall be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system. 4. Storage of Flammable Finishes in Finishing Shoj2s. The storage of flammable finishes inside of finishing shops shall be re- striated as follows: (a) Not to exceed 20 gallons, with no container exceeding 1 gallon in capacity, may be stared on a substantial shelf at least 4 feet above the floor and with suitable guard strips to prevent containers from falling. 40 (b) Not over 50 gallons with no container exceeding 5 gallons capacity may be stored in a cabinet, entirely enclosed and made of suitable stiffened sheet iron of at least lg U.S. gauge in thickness, and double walled with 1j inch air space or equivalent construction. Doors shall be of construction equivalent to the walls of the cabinets, be provided with 3-point look, fit closely, and be kept closed when not in use. Door sills shall be raised at least 2 inches above the bottom of the cabinet. (e) quantities in excess of those given under (a) and (b) shall be in storage and mixing rooms approved in writing by the Chief of said Fire Department as suitable. 5. Mixing. fixing operations shall be carried on only in storage rooms or special mixing rooms approved in writing by the Chief of said Fire Department as suitable; provided that containers of a total capacity not exceeding 2 gallons may be opened and their contents mixed in the finishing room, during such times as the ventilating system is in operation. (b) Receptacles containing flammable finishes shall be kept tightly covered. 6. Containers. (a) All containers of flammable finishes shall bo of metal suitably constructed to prevent leakage; Z.C.C. con- tainers shall be acceptable for storage. (b) Containers used as a part of the spraying outfit shall, be of metal, except that glass containers not exceeding 1 pint capacity, also containers with glass inner linings of not more than 1 gallon capa- city (protected with a metal holder or guard permanently fixed around the container) may be used, 7. Ventilation: (a) Unless suitable ventilated spray booths are used for all finishing operations , finishing rooms shall be continuously ventilated during operation. Ventilation shall be such as 56 to effect at least one complete change of air every three minutes. (b) Exhaust outlets in finishing rooms shall be located not over 5 feet above the floor andshall discharge directly outside of building. Stacks and ducts shall be of substantial, construction with joints riveted and soldered or otherwise made tight. They shall extend as directly as possible to the outside air and preferably not through other rooms, and be so arranged that the discharge of vapor and residue or fire therefrom will not endanger property. They shall not be connected to wither ventilating or collecting systems. S. Lighting and Electrical. Equipment: .,artificial lighting shall be by electricity only. All electrical wiring and equipment in finishing shops shall be in accord with the National Electrical Code rules for Hazardous Locations. Where spraying is done in properly arranged spray boots, portions of the roam more than 20 feet from a booth need not be oonsi- dered Hazardous Locations under the national Electrical Code unless such portions are so classified: as the result of other operations. In the area within 20 feet of properly arranged spray booths the National Electrical Code rules for Hazardous Location may be modified to allow motors of the totally enclosed type or of the open induction type having no brushes, make or break contacts, collectors or other arcing or sparking parts, and to allow lamps of the enclosed vapor-tight type. 9. Housekee ing. (a) Finishing shops shall be kept free from ail unnecessary combustible materials and refuse. (b) Floors of finishing shops, drain boards and the interior of spray booths shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once a days and all fans, ducts, side walls and ceilings kept as clean as may be practicable at all times. In cleaning, care shall be taken to use implements which will not create sparks. Wherever practicable surfaces to be cleaned b. shall be sprayed or otherwise wet down with water before cleaning. Sweepings or deposits from spray booths or roams, ducts or stacks shall be immediately removed from the building and sagely disposed of. ( c) metal waste Mans with self-closing covers shall be provided for all waste and rags which have come in contact with paints, varnishes, and other finishing compounds. 10. ©jen Flames and Heating. No open flame shall be permitted in storage or mixing rooms, storage cabinets, finishing rooms, or spray booths. For heating purposes indirect systems only, such as steam, hot air or hot water, shall be used. 11. Grounding: All metal spray booths, dip tanks, bake ovens, mixers, filters, pumps, Motors and shafting shall be eleotri- cally grounded in an effective manner. 12. Fire Extinguishing, Equipment. The Chief of the said Fire Department shall require the installation of portable fire ex- tinguishers or other Fire extinguishing appliances as may be deemed necessary in finishing rooms, or near storage cabinets and spray booths. 13. Smote Smoking shall be prohibited in any room used for the storage of flammable finishes and in any finishing room. Suitable "Na SMOKING" signs shall be prominently displayed. 14. Spraying. (a) All spraying shall be performed in a spray room or spray booth as specified below or its equivalent. (b) If spraying is performed in a room not provided with spray booths as herein provided, such spray room shall be separated from the remainder of the building by partitions of fire-resistive construction equivalent to incombustible wallboard on wooden studding, 7• cement or gypsum plaster on metal lath on wooden Mudding or wooden studding covered on both sides with sheet iron. Doors in openings in spray room partition shall be equal in fire resistance to parti- tion and shall be of the selfelosing type or so installed as to close automatically in case of fire. (c) Spray booths shall be of metal or other noncombustible material and of amply size to accommodate the object to be sprayed. d) Spray booths shall be provided with exhaust systems of sufficient capacity to adequately remove vapors or residues. Sup- ply"of air 'entering the room where the spray booths are Located shall be substantial equivalent to the exhaust capacity provided. Each spray booth shall have an independent stag or vent, except that not more than 3 booths each with less than 6 square feet frontal area may connect to one stack. They shall be properly supported and shall have at least a 6-inch clearance where passing through wooden floors, rood's, 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 stepped until all flammable vapors have been removed. (f) pails or receptacles shall not exceed 10 gallons capa- city for gravity feed to spray guns and shall be kept covered with tight fitting non-combustible covers. Only wire cables or those con- taining stranded wire cores shall be used to sustaingravity-feed pails. Pails or receptacles containing flammable finishes shall be 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 booths. Lamps shall be prohibited inside spray booth's and duets and in any location where there is possibility of the spray coming into direct contact with the lamp or fixture., 8 Electric motors shall not be placed inside booths or ducts. (h) N'Totor vehicles shall not be moved by their own power while in the finishing room. Electric storage batteries shall be removed. 15. Dip Tanks. Dip tanks having an area in excess of 10 square feet shall be provided with approved covers arranged to close 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 gas or water spray the covers specified above may be omitted. 16. JapanniRs and Enameline. Japanning and enameling drying ovens shall not be placed in contact with wood floors or other combustible material. heating of ovens shall be done by steam coils, indirect hot air circulation through oven to oduside, indirect hot oil circulating pipes, indirect gas burners or electricity. Open flames or fires shall not be in communication with the compartments where goods are being 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 pro- visions or to permit a violation of the above provisions; and it shall be unlawful for the owner of the premises on which a finishing shop is located to permit a violation of the above provisions. SECTION IX. Any person,, firm,, co-partnership, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction in violation of this ordinance shall be deemed a separate offense. SECTION X. This ordinance shall take effect after the same shall have been posted in three (3) of the most public places in the said Eastern Contra Costa County Fire Protection District for a period of two (2) weeks. PASSED AITD ADOPTED by the said Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, this 2Zth day of January 1947. Supervisor S. S. RIPLIEff, Supervisor H. L. CUI-011INGS, T Supervisor RAY S. TAYLOR, Supervisor IT J. BUCHAN AN, Supervisor R. T. TRENIBATH. Wr .a an o? M Board o? -s- up: 6rvisors of e County of Contra Costa, State of California. ATTEST: =erk of t - sa ar o Supervisors 10.