5516FOLLOWS:
ORDINANCE NO. 5516
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING SECTION
16.08.155 TO CHAPTER 16.08 OF TITLE
16 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE TO
AMEND APPENDIX II -A OF THE UNIFORM
FIRE CODE, 1991 EDITION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS
SECTION 1.
That Section 16.08.155 is hereby added to Chapter 16.08
of Title 16 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as follows:
1116.08.155 EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF APPENDIX II -A.
"Section 1 `SCOPE' of Appendix II -A, Division II
SPECIAL HAZARDS, Suppression and Control of
Hazardous Fire Areas of the Uniform Fire Code,
1991 Edition, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"1. SCOPE
(a) The unrestricted use of grass-, grain-,
brush- or forest -covered land in hazardous fire
areas is a potential menace to life and property
from fire and resulting erosion. Safeguards to
prevent the occurrence of fires and to provide
adequate fire -protection facilities to control the
spread of fire which might be caused by
recreational, residential, commercial, industrial
or other activities conducted in hazardous fire
areas shall be in accordance with this appendix.
(b) All of the area within the City of
Anaheim located east of the Costa Mesa Freeway
(SR -55), and south of the Riverside Freeway (SR -
91), is hereby designated a Special Protection
Area and shall comply with the provisions of this
Appendix II -A."
SECTION 2. 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.
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SECTION 3. PENALTY
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with
any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person, firm or
corporation violating any provision of this ordinance or failing
to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by
imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or by both such fine
and imprisonment. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be
deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any
portion of which any violation of any of the provisions of this
ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person,
firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as provided
for in this ordinance.
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.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION
This ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days
from and after the date of its adoption by the City Council. The
City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published at least
once in the official newspaper within fifteen days after its
adoption.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 3rd day of October ,
1995.
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF Ar
EIM
ATTEST•
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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 Ordinance
No. 5516 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 19th
day of August 22, 1995, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 3rd day of October, 1995, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: Tait, Lopez, Feldhaus, Daly
NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: None
ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 5516 on the
3rd day of October, 1995.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim
this 3rd day of October, 1995.
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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. 5516 and was published once in the North Orange County News on the 12th day of
October, 1995
CITY CLERK OF THE CIN OF ANAHEIM