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4333FOLLOWS: ORDINANCE NO. 4333 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING SECTION 1704 OF THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE BY THE ADDITION OF NEW SECTION 15.04.1704 TO CHAPTER 15.04 OF TITLE 15 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO ROOFS, DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF, AND DECLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE. EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS SECTION 1. That new Section 15.04.1704 be, and the same is hereby, added to Chapter 15.04 of Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code, to read as follows: SECTION 15.04.1704 ROOFS. Section 1704 of the Uniform Building Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1704. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Building Code and Appendix to the contrary, the roof covering of any building hereinafter constructed regardless of Type or Occupancy classification, including any re -roofing of any existing building as specified in Chapter 32 of the Appendix hereto, shall be of noncombusti- ble or fire -retardant construction as defined in Section 3203(e) of this Code. Skylights shall be constructed as required in Chapter 34. _Penthouses shall be constructed as required in Chapter 36. For use of plastics in roofs, see Chapter 52. For Attics: Access and Area, see Section 3205. For Roof Drainage, see Section 3207. SECTION 2. PENALTY It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the re- quirements 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 exceed- ing Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) 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 -1- 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 pun- ishable therefor as provided for in this ordinance. SECTION 3. DECLARATION OF URGENCY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares this ordinance to be necessary as an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of the public health or safety. A statement of the rea- sons for its urgency is as follows: 1. The provisions of the Uniform Building Code, 1979 Edition, as heretofore adopted by the City of Anaheim currently permit the use of nonfire-retardant materials in the construction of building roofs within the City of Anaheim. 2. In the event of fire, such construction could contribute to the spread thereof to adjacent and surrounding buildings especially during period of high velocity winds which often occur in the City of Anaheim. 3. On April 21, 1982, during high winds, a fire occurred in a residential area of the City which spread to and destroyed numerous other residential and nonresidential buildings having nonfire-retardant roofs destroying approximately 500 dwelling units and leaving approxi- mately 1500 people homeless. Some buildings in the path of the fire and having fire -retardant roofs were not destroyed. 4. Other nonfire-retardant roofs will continue to be built within the City of Anaheim unless this ordinance is given immediate effect. SECTION 4. DECLARATION OF IMMEDIATE EFFECT For the reasons set forth in Section 3 above, this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force immediately upon and after its adoption. SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this ordinance, 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 to the elimina- tion herefrom of any such portion as may de declared invalid. -2- SECTION 6. SAVINGS CLAUSE Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal or amendment hereby 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 licenses 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 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this or - (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 27th day of April, 1982. 76011. 14'�� MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ATTEST: CITY CLERK OF THE C,1TY OF ANAHEIM JLW:fm =19 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 4333 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 27th day of April, 1982, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Overholt, Kaywood, Roth and Bay NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None VACANCY: COUNCIL MEMBERS: One AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 4333 on the 27th day of April, 1982. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 27th day of April, 1982. CITY CLMK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ( SEAL) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4333 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 7th day of May, 1982. CITY CLERR--'