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ORDINANCE NO. 4 7 7 9
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING AUBURN CITY CODE CHAPTER 15.38 ENTITLED
"FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS".
WHEREAS, the City of Auburn desires to amend Auburn City
Code Chapter 15.38 entitled "Fire Protection Requirements" of
Title 15 entitled "Buildings and Construction".
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN,
WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Ordinance is to
amend Chapter 15.38 of the Auburn City
Protection Requirements" which provides
extinguishing systems based on occupancy
hazards for the protection
of the general public.
Section Z. Chapter
Requirements" to Title
Code entitled "Fire
for automatic fire
type and associated
of the health, safety and welfare
15.38 entitled "Fire Protection
15 entitled "Buildings and
Construction" of the Auburn city Code is herewith amended as
set forth in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated
Should any section,
clause or phrase of this
or invalid for any
the validity of the
herein.
Section 3. SEVERABILITY.
subsection, paragraph, sentence,
ordinance be declared unconstitutional
reason, such decision shall not affect
remaining portions of this Ordinance.
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Section 4. The Mayor is hereby authorized to implement
such administrative procedures as may be necessary to carry
out the directives of this legislation.
Section 5~ This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force five (5) days from and after its passage, approval and
publication, as provided by law.
INTRODUCED:
PASSED:
APPROVED:
August 7, 1995
August 7, 1995
August 7, 1995
CHARLES A. BOOTFP
MAYOR
ATTEST:
R~-W~r~h~t~r,Danielle E. Daskam, Deputy
City Clerk
AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
Publish.d:
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EXHIBIT "At'
Chapter 15.38
FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS
Definitions.
General.
Standards.
Application.
Enforcement.
15.38.010 Definitions.
Unless otherwise provided for in this section, the
definitions contained in the Uniform Building Code and the
Uniform Fire Code shall apply to this chapter. For the
purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
"Area separation wall" as described in Section
565~E~504.6 of the Uniform Building Code shall not be
considered to separate a building so as to avoid the required
automatic fire extinguishing system. A building shall have a
minimum distance of five feet from any point of the building
to any point of another building and from the property line in
order to be considered a separate building.
"Automatic fire extinguishing system" means an integrated
system of piping, including the underground piping which only
serves the sprinkler system, connected to a water supply with
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sprinklers which will automatically initiate water discharge
over a fire, and must conform to the requirements of Building
~8-~9-1 unless otherwise provided for in this
Code Standards
chapter.
"Building code" means the Uniform
published by the International Conference
Officials as adopted as the building code by the
by reference in Chapter 15.08 ACC.
Building Code as
of Building
city adopted
"Building code standards" shall mean the Uniform Building
Code Standards as published by the International Conference of
Building Officials and adopted by reference in Chapter 15.08
ACC.
"Fire code" shall mean the Uniform Fire Code as published
by the International Fire Code Institute and adopted by
reference in Chapter 15.36 ACC.
"Floor area" means and includes the total floor area of a
building within the surrounding exterior walls on all floor
levels including basements and mezzanines. The floor area of a
building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounded
exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal
projection of the roof or floor above. Area separation walls
shall not be considered when calculating the total floor area.
"Story" means a floor level within the surrounding
exterior wall, including basements and mezzanines.
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15.38.020 General.
A. Automatic fire extinguishing
installed in accordance with this chapter
systems shall be
and/or as approved
by both the building official and fire chief.
B. Fire hose threads used in connection with automatic
fire extinguishing systems shall be national standard hose
threads or as approved by the fire chief.
C. The location of fire department hose connections
shall be located within 50 feet of and no closer than five
feet of an approved water supply and the connection shall be
located on the same side of the fire access roadway as the
approved water supply and must be approved by the fire chief.
D. Buildings used for high piled combustible storage
shall comply with the fire protection requirements of the fire
code.
E. For additional provisions on special hazards see the
fire code and building code for requirements.
15.38.030 Standards.
Automatic fire extinguishing
the building code standards.
systems shall comply with
15.38.040 Application.
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An automatic fire extinguishing system shall be installed
and maintained in an operable condition as specified in this
chapter in the following locations:
A. All buildings that do not have adequate fire flow or
do not have adequate emergency fire vehicle access as required
in the fire code and as determined by the fire chief.
B. All buildings except those classed as Group R,
Division 3 and Group M~, Bivisi~m-i-and-~ when:
1. The building has more than 10,000 square feet of
floor area, or is higher than 30 feet, or requires more than
2,000 gallons per minute of fire flow.
2. The building does not have openings as required
in Article ier~8~b~i1003.2.2 of the fire code and Section
~86~{b~i904.2.2 of the building code.
C. At the top of rubbish and linen chutes and in their
terminal rooms. Chutes extending through three or more floors
shall have additional sprinkler heads installed within such
chutes at alternate floors. Sprinkler heads shall be easily
accessible for servicing.
Do
E. In protected combustible
defined in the fire code.
F. In spray booths or rooms
flammable or combustible finishes.
In rooms where nitrate film is stored or handled.
fiber storage vaults
as
used for application of
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G. All buildings that contain more than 8,000 square
feet of Group A occupancies and in:
1. Ail assembly rooms used primarily for
entertaining occupants who are consuming alcoholic or
nonalcoholic beverages or dining in unseparated areas where
the total floor area
to be considered separated,
than a one-hour occupancy
building code.
2. Ail
when the basements
area.
3. All
is more than 5,000 square feet. For uses
the separation shall not be less
separation as defined in the
basements classified as a Group A occupancy
are more than 1,500 square feet in floor
enclosed usable space below or over a
stairway in Group A, Divisions 2, 2.1, 3 and 4 occupancies.
4. Ail buildings containing a multitheater complex.
5. Ail amusement buildings except those that are
both less than 1,000 square feet of floor area and have an
exit travel distance from any point that is less than 50 feet.
6. Areas under roof and gridiron, in the tie and
fly galleries, and in all places behind the proscenium wall of
stages; over and within the permanent platforms that are more
than 500 square feet in area; and in dressing rooms, workshops
and storerooms accessory to such stages or platforms, with the
exceptions noted in the building code under Section
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~Se~e~¥904.2.3.7 and the fire code in Article
~875~e~1003.2.3.7.
H. All basements classified as a Group E occupancy when
the basements are more than 1,500 square feet in floor area,
and in:
1. All enclosed usable space below or over a
stairway in all Group E occupancies.
2. All buildings that are classified as Group E,
Division 1, except portable school classrooms, provided: (a)
the aggregate area of clusters of portable school classrooms
does not exceed 5,000 square feet and (b) that the clusters of
portable school classrooms are separated as required in
Chapter 5~ of the building code.
3. All buildings classified as Group E, Division 2.
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4. All buildings classified as Group E, Division 3.
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I. All occupancies classified as Group H~, Divisions 1,
2, 3 and 7 occupancies, and in:
1. Ail occupancies classified as Group H, Divisions
4 and 5 more than 3,000 square feet of floor area.
2. Ail buildings containing an occupancy classified
as a Group H, Division 6. The system shall be designed and
installed per the building code standard and as follows:
Fabrication areas, service corridors, and storage rooms
without dispensing shall be classed as ordinary hazard group
B~. Storage rooms with dispensing shall be classed as extra
hazard group 2. Exit corridors shall be classed as ordinary
hazard group B2 except that if the sprinkler system serving
the corridor consists of one row of sprinklers the maximum
number of sprinklers that need be calculated is 13.
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J. All occupancies classed as a Group I. Except that in
jails, prisons and reformatories the piping system may be dry,
provided a manually operated valve is installed at a
continually monitored location. Opening of the valve will
cause the piping system to be charged. Sprinkler heads in such
systems shall be equipped with fusible elements or the system
shall be designed as required for deluge systems in the
building code standards.
K. All buildings classed as a Group R, Division 1 with
more than four units or more than 5,000 square feet of floor
area, and in all congregate residences classed as Group R,
Division 1. In Group R, Division
residences facilities, automatic
may be designed to building code
1 occupancies and congregate
fire extinguishing systems
standard ~8-~;-3 when those
buildings are not more
units, or over 19 hotel units,
congregate residence and:
1. Listed Quick response stamda~dresidential
sprinkler heads shall be used in the dwelling units and guest
room portions of the building.
L. All congregate residences which are classed as Group
R, Division 3 when the occupant load is more than six and less
than 11, the automatic fire extinguishing system may be
than two stories, or over 15 apartment
or over 49 total occupants in a
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designed to meet the requirements of the 199~ National Fire
Protection Association Standard 13D.
M. -A~{--C:~z'okFt~-R-~-B-i-v-i-s-i-.~n--%-end--~--~-,,~.%F~a.n~,-4.c:~-.-.~-RT.,
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License~ Care (LC) facilities with six or ~ore clients,
excludin~ staff. LC facilities may design the automatic fir,
extinouishin~ systems to Buildin~ Code Standard '9-3 when thos,
buildings are not more than two stories in height or over 5000
s~uare feet in floor area. ~n other LC facilities tbe
automatic fire extin~uishinq system may ~e desione~ to meet
the requirements of the ~994 National Fire Protection
Association Standard 13D, provided that the facility is within
the scope of that standard.
N. Automatic fire extinguishing systems shall be
supervised by an approved central station, proprietary or
remote station service or a local alarm which will give an
audible signal at a constantly attended location when the
number of sprinkler heads is more than:
~. Nineteen in GrouD ~, Division ~[ and
e~oup-R~-Bivisio~-S-eeeupa~eies~ C ac' ~ ·
2. Ninety-nine in al~ other occupancies;
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3. All amusement buildings.
O. An approved audible sprinkler flow alarm to alert the
occupants shall be Drovided in the interior of the buildina $~
a normally occupied location when the system is desianed to
meet buildinq code standard 9-1 and 9-3.
6rP_~. Additions, alterations and repairs. For the purpose
of this chapter any alteration or repair which changes the
character of the occupancy or use, and which increases the
fire or life safety or structural hazards shall comply with
the requirements of this chapter and:
1. Any additions that increase the floor area of a
building shall require that the entire building comply with
this chapter; and
2. These determinations shall be made by the
building official and the fire chief.
P~Q. Plans. In addition to the requirements in the
building and fire codes all plans for automatic fire
extinguishing systems shall bear the stamp and signature of a
Washington state professional engineer who is registered as
qualified in fire protection engineering, or registered as a
certified sprinkler contractor through the Washington State
Fire Marshal's Office, or as approved by the fire chief.
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Conflict. In case of conflict between the
requirements contained in Chapter 15.08 ACC and this chapter,
the requirements of this chapter shall govern and prevail.
15.38.050 Enforcement.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the
fire chief and building official in accordance with the
enforcement and penalty provisions as adopted in Chapter 15.36
ACC.
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