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ORDINANCE NO. 5536
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
REPEALING EXISTING CHAPTER 16.08 AND
ADDING NEW CHAPTER 16.08 TO TITLE 16 OF
THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE ADOPTING THE
UNIFORM FIRE CODE, 1994 EDITION; AND
DECLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS AN
EMERGENCY MEASURE WHICH SHALL TAKE
IMMEDIATE EFFECT
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 16.08 of Title 16 of the Anaheim Municipal
Code be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
SECTION 2.
That new Chapter 16.08 of Title 16 be, and the same is
hereby, added to the Anaheim Municipal Code, to read as follows:
"Chapter 16.08
UNIFORM FIRE CODE ADOPTED
16.08.010 APPROVAL.
The City Council does find and determine, as a result
of study and investigation conducted by the City and its Fire
Department, that the Uniform Fire Code, 1994 Edition, including
the Appendices thereto, is an approved code for adoption by
reference within the meaning of Section 50022.1 of the Government
Code of the State of California.
16.08.020 ADOPTION OF THE UNIFORM FIRE CODE, 1994
EDITION,WITH APPENDICES
Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 50022.1 to
50022.8, inclusive, of the Government Code of the State of
California, the City Council of the City of Anaheim does hereby
adopt, by reference, the Uniform Fire Code, 1994 Edition,
including Appendices I -C, II -A, II -B, II -C, II -D, II -E, II -E -I,
II -H, II -I, III -A, III -B, III -C, III -D, IV -A, IV -B, V-A, VI -A,
VI -B, VI -D, VI -E, VI -F, VI -G; and directs that three (3) or more
copies of the Code shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk
and shall be kept there for public inspection while the Code is
enforced, all of which copies shall be certified to be true
copies by the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall, at all times,
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maintain a reasonable supply of copies of the -Code available for
purchase by the public at a moderate price not to exceed the
actual cost thereof to the City of Anaheim.
16.080.430 VIOLATIONS - PENALTIES
Except where another penalty is provided pursuant to state
law, any person who shall violate any of the provision of this
Chapter, or shall fail to comply wherewith, or who shall violate
or fail to comply with any order make thereunder, or who shall
build in violation of any detailed statement or specifications or
plans submitted and approved thereunder, shall severally for each
and every such violation or noncompliance, respectively, be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than
One Thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for not more
than six (6) months 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 specified, each day that
the prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a
separate offense.
The application of the above penalty shall not be held
to prevent the enforced removal of the prohibited conditions.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of The City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
ordinance of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason
to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have
passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the
elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared
invalid.
SECTION 4. SAVINGS CLAUSE
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal
of any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect
the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations
were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be
construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal
provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions
of this ordinance, insofar as they are substantially the same as
ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to
the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and
continuations, and not as new enactments.
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SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE AND OPERATIVE DATES
This ordinance shall take effect immediately; however,
it shall become operative December 28, 1995.
SECTION 6. DECLARATION OF URGENCY.
The City Council declares that this ordinance is
necessary as an emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, and the reasons for the
urgency are as follows:
1. This Ordinance adopts the Uniform Fire Code, 1994
Edition. It is anticipated that local amendments will be
adopted concurrently with this Ordinance. In order for the
local amendments to become effective within the City prior
to the State Model Codes becoming effective without local
amendments, it will be necessary to adopt the Ordinances
with local amendments as urgency measures. In order for
these local amendments to apply to the Uniform Fire Code,
1994 Edition, it is necessary that this Ordinance also be
adopted as an urgency measure.
2. For the aforesaid reasons, it is necessary to
adopt this ordinance as an emergency measure for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health or
safety.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 12th day of
December , 1995.
MAYOR OF THE CITY O*ANIM
ATTEST
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing urgency Ordinance
No. 5536 was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the
12th day of December, 1995 and after reading of the ordinance by the City Attorney by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS
Tait, Zemel, Feldhaus, Lopez, Daly
None
None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 5536 on the 12th day
of December, 1995.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 12th
day of December, 1995.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of
Ordinance No. 5536 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 21 st day of December, 1995.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM