O-74-68ORDINANCE NO. 0 -74 -68
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE
ADOPTION OF A FIRE PREVENTION CODE
Published in pamphlet form by
authority of the President and
Board of Trustees this 21st
day of October, 1974.
' ORDINANCE NO. 0 -74 -681
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE
ADOPTION OF A FIRE PREVENTION CODE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
VILLAGE OF DEERFIELD, LAKE AND COOK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION That there is hereby adopted by the President and
ONE: Board of Trustees for the purpose of establishing
rules and regulations governing conditions hazardous
to life and property from fire or explosion, that certain fire pre-
vention code known as the "American Insurance Association Fire Pre-
vention Code", being particularly the 1970 edition thereof, as
amended, and the whole thereof, of which not less than three (3)
copies have been and are now filed in the office of the Director
of Building and Zoning of the Village of Deerfield 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 corporate
limits of the Village of Deerfield.
SECTION That as to that portion of the Village of Deerfield
TWO: lying within the corporate limits of the Deerfield —
Bannockburn Fire Protection District, the Fire Pre-
vention Code shall be enforced by the Fire Chief of said District,
who is hereby appointed Fire Marshal for the Village of Deerfield, to
be compensated at the rate of $1.00 annually. As to that portion of
the Village of Deerfield lying within the corporate limits of the
Northbrook Rural Fire Protection District, the Fire Prevention Code
shall be enforced by the Fire Chief of said District who is hereby
appointed Deputy Fire Marshal of the Village of Deerfield, to be
compensated at the rate of $1.00 annually.
SECTION That whenever either the Fire Marshal or Deputy Fire
THREE: Marshal shall disapprove an application 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 the decision to the Board of Building Appeals
of the Village of Deerfield. Any such appeal will be considered in
the manner provided in Sections $.$05 and $.$06 of the Municipal Code
of the Village of Deerfield.
SECTION That nothing in the Fire Prevention Code hereby
FOUR: adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or pro-
ceeding now pending
quired, or liability incurred, nor
accrued or existing, under any act
shall any right or remedy of any c
fected by this ordinance.
in any court, or any rights ac—
any cause or causes of action
or ordinance repealed hereby, nor
zaracter be lost, impaired or -_df-
SECTION ':`-That the invalidity of any section or provision of
FIVE: the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted shall not
f
invalidate other sections or provisions thereof.
SECTION That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
SIX: from and after its passage, approval and publication
as provided by law.
SECTION That the Village Clerk is hereby directed to publish
SEVEN: this Ordinance in pamphlet form.
AYES: Finne, Gavin, Moses, Stiehr (4)
NAYS : None (0)
ABSENT: Kelm, Moate (2)
PASSED this
21st
day of
October
A.D.
1974
APPROVED this
21st
day of
October
A.D.
1974
Village President
ATTEST:
Village Clerk