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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0402 Ord (Adopting Fire Prevention Code)211 • • ORDINANCE NO. 402 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERN- ING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE AND EXPLOSION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STILLWATER, MINNESOTA: SECTION 1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code. There is hereby adopted by the said City Council for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated Edition, recommended by the American Insurance Association, being particularly the 1965 edition thereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended (by section 5 of this ordinance), of which code not less than three (3) copies have been and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of Stillwater 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 limits of the City of Stillwater, Minn- esota. SECTION 2. Enforcement. The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the Chief of the Fire Department. SECTION 3. Definition. Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the code hereby adopted, it shall be held to mean the City of Stillwater, Minnesota. SECTION 4. Establishment of Limits of Districts in which Storage of Explosives and Blasting Agents, Storage of Flammable Liquids in Outside Aboveground Tanks, and Bulk Storage of Liquefied Petroleum Gases is to be Restricted. The limits referred to in Section 53b of the code hereby adopte in which storage of explosives and blasting agents is prohibited, the limits referred to in Section 74a of the code hereby adopted in which storage of Class I liquids in outside aboveground tanks is prohibited, and the limits referred to in Section 114 of the code hereby adopted, in which bulk storage of liquefied petro- leum gas is restricted -are hereby esta-blished as follows: Commence at a point on the North City Limits line at the inter- section with the Easterly Right -of -Way of State T.A. No. 95. Thence Southwesterly, Southerly and Westerly along the Easterly Right -of - Way line of State T.A. No. 95 to a point on the centerline of East Alder Street with the Southerly extension of said line; Thence Easterly along the centerline of East Alder Street to the inter- section with the centerline of North Lake Street extended; Thence Southerly along the centerline of North Lake Street to the intersection with the centerline of East Hazel. Street; Thence Easterly along the centerline of East Hazel Street to the Westerly shore of Lake Saint Croix; Thence Northerly along the shore of Lake Saint Croix to a point where the North city Limits line intersects the shoreline; Thence Westerly along the North City Limits line to the point of begin- ning. All land within the following described area. to -wit: From the North line of East Poplar Street, if extended to Lake St. Croix; thence West to the center of North Main Street; Thence Southerly to the North line of East Elm Street; Thence Westerly on East Elm Street to the East line of North Second Street; thence Southerly to the North line of Mulberry Street; Thence Westerly on North line of Mulberry Street to the East line of North Fifth Street; thence Southerly on the East line of North Fifth Street to the North line of West Willard Street; thence Easterly on the North line of West Willard Street to its junction with Brewery Lot, thence Southerly along West line of Brewery Lot a distance of 290.22 feet; thence Northeasterly on the South line of the Brewery Lot to the center line of South Main Street and Highway 9212, thence Southerly to the Southerly line of the City Limits, thence Easter- ly to Lake St. Croix, thence Northerly following the Lake Shore to the North line of East Poplar Street. SECTION S.Amendments Made in the Code Hereby Adopted. (Reserved for future amendments). SECTION 6. Modifications 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 diffi- culties 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 sub- stantial justice done. The particulars of such modification when granted or allowed and the decision of the Chief of the Fire Department thereon shall be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall be furnished the applicant and the Clerk of the Municipality. SECTION 7. Appeals. Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department shall disapprove an applica- tion 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 Chief of the Fire Department to the City Council with- in 30 days from the date of the decision appealed. SECTION 8. Penalties. 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 modi- fied by the City Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and non- compliance respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars or by imprisonment for not more than Ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment. The imposition of one 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 speci- fied, each ten days that prohibited donditions 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 9. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances. All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted are hereby repealed. SECTION 10. Validity The City Council hereby declares that should any Section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this ordinance or of tit, code hereby adopted be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of said City council that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimi- nation herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. • • eAA rr?,: • • SECTION 11. Date of Effect. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval as required by law. Passed: December 14, 1965 Published: December 22, 1965 Attest: aan-% City Clerk ORDINANCE NO. 403 Ale L_Ylbll'Ae Mayor AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SANITARY LANDFILL, PROVIDING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE Sld3 AND IN- OFFENSIVE OPERATION OF SAME, AND FIXING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF". THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STILLWATER DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 4 of the above entitled Ordinance No. 379, is hereby amended by deleting the words "garbage and other" therefrom. Sections 5,6,7,8. and 10 of the above entitled ordinance No. 379 are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Section 2 of the above entitled ordinance no. 379 is hereby amended by deleting the legal description and substituting the following description, to -wit: All that part of the Southeast Quarter (SEA() of the Northwest Quarter (NA) and of the Northeast Quarter (NE%) of the South- west Quarter (sw%) of Section Twenty-nine (29) in Township Thirty (30) North of Range Twenty (20) West lying Southerly of the Public Highway, excepting therefrom those parts thereof conveyed by deeds as follows: Deed from William McKusick, as Trustee under the Will of John McKusick, deceased, to Myrtle L. Wilson, dated April 4th, 1902, recorded April 16th, 1902 in Book No. 55 of Deeds, page 107, and re -recorded May 17, 1912 in Book No. 74 of Deeds. page 421; Deed from William McKusick, as Trustee under the Will of John McKusick, deceased, to Myrta L. Wilson, dated November 2nd, 1903, recorded December 30th, 1904, in Book No. 60 of Deeds, page 294; and Deed from John Mexusick, et al. to Myrta L. Wilson, dated May 8th, 1912, recorded November let, 1912, in Book No. 74 of Deeds, page 574: records of the Office of the Register of Deeds of Washington County, Minnesota; and Also excepting therefrom that part of the Southeast Quarter (SE1) of the Northwest Quarter (NW%) of Section Twenty-nine (29), Town- ship Thirty (30) North of Range Twenty (20) West described as fol- lows: Beginning at a point on the southerly right of way line of County Highway No. 2 as now established, said point being on the Erickson & Sutton line and marked by an iron stake; thence south along said line Three Hundred (300) feet to an iron stake, said stake being Nine Hundred Thirty-nine (939) feet west of the North and South Quarter line and Four Hundred Sixty-five and 7/10ths (965.7) feet North of the East and West Quarter line; thence • •