There is hereby adopted and incorporated by reference, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire, hazardous materials or explosion that the certain fire code known as the International Fire Code, 2018 edition, as published by the International Code Council. At least one copy of said code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as Incorporated by the Code of the City of Sedgwick” and shall be filed with the City Clerk and open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours of business.
(Ord. 844; Code 2022)
The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the chief of the fire department.
(Code 2022)
(a) All liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks and the use thereof are prohibited within the city limits of Sedgwick, Kansas.
(b) This prohibition shall not apply to uses such as standard barbecue grills for personal use, those portable tanks used for recreational vehicles, or those mounted and used for operation of propane-powered vehicles.
(c) This prohibition shall not apply to use of standard heating tanks used by construction companies and contractors for temporary installation on a building site. This use shall be limited to a period not to exceed forty-five (45) days and must be approved by the fire chief prior to use.
(d) Upon proper application and for good cause and exception shown, the Governing Body may grant a conditional use permit to locate a generally prohibited storage tank under conditions that the Governing Body may prescribe.
(Ord. 741; Code 2022)
The following shall be and are hereby declared to be the boundaries of the fire zone in the city of Sedgwick, Kansas: Beginning ninety-nine feet south of 5th St, property line on the East side of Washington Ave, thence south to 1st St, thence east on 1st St to the East side of A.T.& S. F. Railway tracks, thence north to the North side of 4th St, thence east to Jackson Ave, thence north on Jackson Avenue to 7th Street to the east side of Washington Ave, thence south on Washington Ave to one hundred feet north of the north property line on 5th Street, thence west to the alley between Washington and Commercial Aves, thence north to 6th Street, thence west to the corner of 6th Street and Franklin Ave, thence south to the corner of 5th Street and Franklin Ave, thence east on 5th Street to the alley between Commercial and Franklin Aves, thence south to the southwest corner of Lot No. 109 on west Commercial Ave, thence south to the southeast corner of Lot No. 99 on west Commercial Ave, thence east to the southeast corner of Lot no. 100 on east Commercial Ave, thence north to the southwest corner of Lot No. 59 on west Washington Ave, thence east to the east side of Washington Ave to the place of beginning.
(Ord. 302; Code 2022)
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow to accumulate or to keep in any part of any building or outside of and adjacent to any building or in any alley, sidewalk, street or premises within 30 feet of any building any rubbish, trash, waste paper, excelsior, empty boxes, barrels or other combustibles which shall constitute a fire hazard.
(Code 2022)
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, stack or store any hay or straw within 500 feet of any building located inside the fire limits of the city.
(Code 2022)
It shall be unlawful to keep excelsior or other packing material in anything other than metal or wood metal line boxes or bins having self-closing or automatic covers. All refuse and trash from rooms where packing or unpacking is done shall be removed daily.
(Code 2022)
It shall be unlawful to store ashes inside of any nonfireproof building unless they are stored in a noncombustible container or receptacle, and a clearance of at least five feet shall be maintained between such container or receptacle and any combustible materials not placed therein. Ashes shall not be stored outside of any building in wooden, plastic, or paper product receptacles or dumped in contact with or in close proximity to any combustible materials.
(Code 2022)
The engines of motor vehicles shall be stopped when the gasoline tanks of such vehicles are being filled with gasoline at service stations or other places where gasoline is supplied to motor vehicles. The driver or person in control of such vehicle when the gasoline tank of same is being filled who refuses, neglects or fails to stop the engine of such vehicle shall likewise be guilty of a violation of this code.
(Code 2022)
It is unlawful for any person to cause or create anywhere within the city, or to permit on any premises under his or her control, any situation or condition that is conducive to or likely to cause or permit the outbreak of fire or the spreading of fire. Any situation or condition conducive to the outbreak of or spreading of fire, is declared to be a fire hazard. The violation of or failure to comply with any law pertaining to the storage, handling or use of inflammable oils, explosives, liquefied petroleum gases, or fertilizers and all wires and other conductors charged with electricity, is declared to be a fire hazard. The placing of stools, chairs or any other obstruction in the aisles, hallways, doorway, or exit of any theater, public hall, auditorium, church or other place of indoor public assemblage, or the failure to provide any such place of public assemblage with sufficient, accessible and unobstructed fire exits and escapes is also declared to be a fire hazard. The obstruction of any street, avenue, alley, fire hydrant or any other condition that might delay the fire department in fighting fire is declared to be unlawful.
(Code 2022)
It shall be the duty of the fire chief to inspect or cause to be inspected by fire department officers or members, as often as may be necessary all buildings, particularly all mercantile buildings, manufacturing plants, warehouses, garages, hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses, theaters, auditoriums and all places of public assemblage, for the purpose of discovering the violation of any fire preventive law or any fire hazard and ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to cause fires and to see that all places of public assemblage, hotels and rooming houses have sufficient and unobstructed facilities for escape therefrom in case of fire.
(Code 2022)
Whenever any officer or member of the fire department shall find or discover any fire hazard or shall find in any building or upon any premises combustible or explosive material or dangerous accumulation of rubbish or unnecessary accumulation of paper, boxes, shavings, or any other flammable material, so situated as to endanger property by the probability of fire , or shall find or discover any violation of this chapter or any other law hazardous to public safety from fires, the fire chief shall set time of compliance pertaining to the mitigation or removal of the fire hazard or danger by the owner or occupant of such buildings or premises. If the hazard or condition ordered abated and remedied is a violation of, or a failure to comply with any law, the fire chief shall report the matter to the city attorney and he or she shall, if he or she deems it advisable, prosecute the offender.
(Code 2022)
Any order made under section
7-212 shall be in writing and may be served personally upon the owner or
occupant of the premises or by leaving it with any person in charge of the
premises or if the premises are unoccupied and the owner is a nonresident of
the city, then by mailing a copy to the owner’s last known post-office address.
One notice to either the occupant or owner shall be sufficient. The fire chief
shall keep a record of and copies of all such orders and notices and shall
follow up such notices at the expiration of the time for compliance therewith
and when complied with make proper entry, and if not complied with, file
complaint with the municipal court against the property owner and/or occupant.
(Code 2022)