O-62-41r r
ORDINANCE NO. 62
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 1960 edition of the National Board
of Underwriters' "Fire Prevention Code ".
Be it ordained by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Deerfield, Illinois, that:
1. Adoption of Fire Prevention Code. -) The regulations
contained in the 1960 edition of the Fire Prevention Code printed and
promulgated by the National Board of Fire Underwriters are hereby
adopted and shall constitute a part of this ordinance.
Provided that the provisions in the said code requiring
a permit for the conduct of any business or occupation therein
described are not hereby adopted, but the regulations governing the
activities described shall apply and be complied with.
2. Bureau of Fire Prevention.) The Bureau of Fire Prevention
shall consist of the fire marshal and such other persons as may be
appointed by the village President.
3. Enforcement.) The fire marshal shall have the power and
duty to enforce the provisions of this ordinance.
4. 'Stop Order.) Whenever any work is being done in violation
of the provisions of this ordinance, or in variance with the terms of
any permit issued for such work, the building commissioner may order
all work on the job stzpped until such violation or variance is
eliminated and any work or installation made in violation of this
ordinance is corrected. Such stop order, if oral, shall be followed
by a- written stop order within twenty -four hours (excluding Saturday,
Sunday or holidays.).
It shall be unlawful to do or perform any work in violation
of such stop order, except as may be necessary to prevent injury or
damage to persons or property..
Such stop order may be revoked by the building commissioner,
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the village president, or the board of trustees.
5. Districts in which storage of flammable liquids in outside
above ground tanks and bulk storage of liquified petroleum
gases is to be restricted.)
The limits referred to in section 16.22 of the Fire Prevention
Code in which the storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground
tanks is prohibited, and the limits referred to in section 16.51 of
the said Code in which bulk storage of liquified petroleum gases is
restricted are hereby defined as the entire area of the village.
6. Interpretation.) Whenever in the regulations adopted
herein it is provided that anything must be done to the approval of
or subject to the direction of the chief of the Fire Prevention
Bureau, or any other officer-of the village, this shall be construed
to give such officer only the discretion of determining whether the
rules and standards established by ordinance have been complied with;
and no such provision shall be construed as giving any officer
discretionary powers as to what such regulations or standards shall
be, or power to require conditions not prescribed by ordinance, or to
enforce ordinance provisions in an arbitrary or discriminatory manner.
7. Penalty.) It shall be unlawful to violate any
regulations contain
Any person, firm or
ordinance shall be
two hundred dollars
deemed committed on
or continues.
=_d in the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted.
corporation violating any provision of this
fined not less than five dollars nor more than
for each offense; and a separate offense shall be
each day during or on which a violation occurs
PASSED THIS i - DAY OF 0� , 1962
APPROVED:
ATTEST:
VILLAGZ U LER
G R E
ENT
PUBLISHED THIS �� DAY OF , 1962, IN THE
DEERFIELD REVIEW.