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Home My WebLink About1982-2606 AMENDING THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE k - 2 606 ORDINANCE NO. 411 AN ORDINANCE relating to fire codes; amending definitions within the Uniform Fire Code, 1979 Edition, copyright 1979 by the International Cionference of Building Officials and the Western Fire Chiefs Association; and amending Subsection T of Section 10.05.025 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Subsection 10.15.025 T of the City bf Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "10.05.025 Amendments to the Uniform Fire Code. T. Section 9.108 of the Uniform Fire Code, 1979 Edition, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 9.108 ga. 111, FIRE APPARATUS shall mean a vehicle such as a fire pumper, aerial ladder truck, elevated* platform, 'rescue squad or similar fire fighting or rescue equipment. FIRE APPLIANCE shall mean apparatus or equipment provided or in- stalled for use in the event of an emergency. FIRE ASSEMBLY is the asseMbly of a fire door, fire .window, or fire damper, including all required hardware, anchorage, frames, and sills. • FIRE BARRIER shall mean a line or barricade designed to keep un- authorized persons out of the area of a fire. FIRE CHIEF shall mean the Chief of Code Administration of the City of Yakima or his authorized representative when the term herein defined is used in a context which relates to duties assigned, to the Chief of Code Administration by Section 2.101 (a) of this Code. Otherwise, Fire Chief shall mean the Chief officer of the Fire OD' ' Department of the City of Yakima or his authorized representative when the term herein defined is used in a context which relates to duties assigned to the Chief of the Fire Department by Section 2.101 (b) of this Code. FIRE DEPARTMENT shall mean any regularly organized fire department, fire protection district or fire company regularly Charged with the responsibility of providing fire protection to the jurisdiction. FIRE DEPARTMENT HOSE CONNECTION is a connection through which the fire department can pump water. FIRE DOOR shall mean a fire-resistive door approved for openings in fire separations. • FIRE HAZARD is any thing or act which increases or may cause an increase of the hazard or menance of fire to a greater degree than that customarily recognized as normal by persons in the public service regularly engaged in preventing, suppressing or extin- guishing fire; or which may obstruct, delay, hinder or interfere • with the operations of the fire department or the egress of occu- • pants in the event of fire. FIRE NUISANCE shall mean any thing or any act which is annoying, unpleasant, offensive or obnoxious because of fire. FIRE-RESISTIVE OR FIRE-RESISTIVE CONSTRUCTION is construction to resist the spread of fire, details of which may be specified in-the • Building Code of the jurisdiction. RESORD/F 1 2/17/82 4 FIRE-RESISTIVE RATING shall mean the time that the material or construction will withstand the standard fire exposure as deter- mined by a fire test made in conformity with the standard methods of fire tests of buildings, construction and materials of the American Society of Testing and Materials. FIRE SEPARATION shall mean construction of rated fire resistance or the maintenance of clear area to resist the spread of fire. FIREWORKS shall mean and include any combustible or explosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances, or device prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an aud- ible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation, and shall include blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes, or toy guns in whidh explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky-rockets, Roman candles, Daygo bulbs, sparklers, or other devices of like construction and any devices containing any explosive or flammable compound, or any tablet or other device containing an explosive substance, except that the term "fireworks" shall not include any auto flares, paper caps containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five hundredths of a grain of ex- plosive content per cap, and toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or Other devices for use of such caps, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times. FLAME ARRESTER is a device approved for installation in piping which carries a flammable vapor/air mixture to prevent a flashback beyond the point of installation. Flame arresters installed under this definition shall be installed only in such location spec- ifically approved by the listing agency. FLAME RETARDANT is any approved Chemical, chemical compound or mixture which when applied is an approved manner to any fabric or other material will render such fabric or material incapable of supporting combustion. FLAMMABLE AESTHETIC shall mean a compressed gas which is flammable and administered as an anesthetic and shall include among other, cycloprapane, divinyl ether, ethyl chloride, ethyl ether and ethy- lene. FLAMMABLE CRYOGENIC FLUIDS shall mean those cryogenic fluids which are flammable in their vapor state. FLAMMABLE LIQUID is any liquid having a flash point below 100°F. and having a vapor pressure not exceeding 40 pounds per square. inch (absolute) at 100°F. Class I liquids shall include those having flash points below 100°F. and may be subdivided as follows: 411 Class I-A shall include those having flash points below 73 and having a boiling point below 100°F. Class I-B shall include those having flash points below 73°F. and having a boiling point at or above 100°F. Class I-C shall include those having flash points at or above 73°F. The flash point of liquids having a flash point at or below 175°F., except for fuel oils and certain viscous materials, shall be determined in accordance with the Standard Method of Test for Flash Point by the Tag Closed Tester, ASTM D-56-70. The flash point of liquids having a flash point above 175°F., IIP except for fuel oils, shall be determined in accordance with the Standard Method of Test for Flash Point by the Cleveland Open Cup Tester, ASTM D92-72. The flash point of fuel oil and certain viscous materials having a flash point at or below 175° F. shall be determined in accordance with the Standard Method of Test for Flash Point by the Pensky-Martens Closed Tester, ASTM D93-73. RESORD/F 2 2/17/82 2LAMMABLE MATERIAL shall, mean (1) any material that will readily ignite fran common sources of heat; (2) any material that will ignite at a temperature of 600 degrees Fahrenheit or less. FLAMMABLE SOLID shall mean and include a .solid substance, other than one classified as an explosive, which is liable to 4 1, : cause fires through friction, through absorption of moisture, through spontaneous chemical dianges, or as a result of re- tained heat from the manufacturing or processing. FLASH MINT shall be the minimum temperature in degrees Fah- rehheit at which a. flammable liquid will give off flammable vapbr as determined by appropriate test procedure and ap- paratus as specified in Section 15.102. FLOOR AREA is the area included within the surrounding exter- ior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusvie of vent shafts and courts. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the .usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above. FLUIDIZED BED shall mean a container holding powder coating material which is aerated from below, so as to form an air- , supported expanded cloud of sudh material through which the preheated object to be coated is immersed and transported. 0 • , FOLDING AND TELESCOPING SATING is a structure that is used for tiered seating of persons and whose overall shape and size may be reduced, without being dismantled, for purposes of moving or storing. FOOTBOARDS are that part of a raised seating facility other than an, aisle or cross aisle upon whidi the occupant of the stands walks to reach a seat or upon Which he may rest his feet. FUEL BREAK is a strip or block of land on which the vegetation has been permanently modified so that fires burning into it will not propagate across it. FUEL OIL shall mean kerosene or any hydrocarbon oil conforming to nationally recognized standards and having a flash point not less than 100°F. FUMIGANT shall mean and include any substance which by itself or in combination:with any other substance emits or liberates a gas, fume or vapor used for the destruction or control of III insects, fungi, vermin, germs, rodents or other pests and • shall be distinguished from insecticides and disinfectants. 'FUNEGATION as _used herein shall mean and include the use of any substance which its or liberates a gas, fume, or vapor used for the destruction or control of insects, fungi, vermin, germs, rodents, or other pests, and shall be distinguished fran insecticides and disinfectants.' Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. 411 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this /h day of ' , 1982. 011 I — o lint AkAALIL, AAA.&.[M-:.■ % Mayor ATTEST: • • City,ile±k / . RESORD/F 3 : 2/17/82