717_00001ORDINANCE NO.2
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3.29.20 ENTITLED "SECTIONV,OCCUPANCY REQUIREMENTS"OF CHAPTER 3.29 OF THE MOSES
I IAKE CITY CODE WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE REGULATION OF THE *
.SALE ON INSTALIATION OF FIRE ALARMSYSTEMS AND ALARMTERM-INATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF MOSES TAKE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITYOF MOSES TAKE,WASHINGTON,DO ORDAIN AS FOLIDWS:ThatSection3.29.20 of Chapter 3.29 of the Moses Lake City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
3,29.20 SECTION V OCCUPANCY REQUIREMENTS:
Pire alarm systems shall be provided in all occupancies as specified in thissection.EXCEPTION:The requirement for an automatic fire detection systemmaybewaivedwhenthebuildingisfullyprotectedbyanapprovedautomaticfireextinguishingsystemequippedwiththewaterflowalarmconnectedtothebuildingfirealarmsystem.
The definitions of occupancies as stated in this code shall be as defined in the 1973 Edition of theUniformBuildingCodeaspublishedbytheInternationalConferenceofBuildingOfficialswhichhasbeenadoptedbyanordinanceoftheCityofMosesLake.
(1)Type A System:
a.Educational occupancies used for the gathering of groups of sixormorepersonsforthepurposeofinstruction,such as schools,universities,colleges,and academies other than campus type,and including nursery schools and kindergartens,except daycarecenters,
b.Hotels,motels,dormitories,fraternity or sorority houses andsimilaroccupanciesone(1)story in height housing six (6)ormorepersons,
c.Apartment houses two (2)or more stories in height and contain-ing three (3)or more units,unless each unit exits directly toitheexteriorofthebutiding.
d.Maternity homes accomodating six (6)or more persons,
e.Day care centers occupying two (2)or more floors,or with
more than thirty-five (35)children.
(2)Type B Systems:
.a.Schools,universities,academies,colleges and institutionaloccupancieswhichareofcampustype.
b.Office butidings or mercantile occupancies three (3)or morestoriesinheight,and if the total capacity of the building isfifty(50),or more,but less than one thousand (1,000)persons,
c.All occupancies three (3)or more stories in height where anAutomaticFireDetectionsystemisrequired.
(3)Type C System:
a.General industrial occupancies not provided with automaticsprinklersifthetotalcapacityofthebuildingisfivehundred(500)or more persons,or if twenty-five (25)or more personsareemployedbelowthestreetlevel.
(4)Type D System:
a.Hotels,motels,dormitortes,fraternity or sorority houses,and similar occupancies of fifty (60)or more persons and two(2)or more stories in.height.I b.Group "D"Occupancies as defined in the Building Code.L
c.Office buildings twenty (20)stories in height or with an occu-pant load of one thousand (1,000)or more persons.
(5)Tirge E System,Automatte Ftre Detection:All detectors shall be locatedwithintwelve(12)inches of the calling.Care shall be exercised to insurethattheinstallationwillnotinterferewiththeoperatingcharacteristicsofthedetector.Detector.installed in dwellings shall be centrally located inthecorridororareagivingaccesstoroomusedforsleepingpurposes.
Ordinance No.717
a,Group A,Group B-1,B-2 and B-3 as defined in the Building Code,
1.Automatic detection shall be required in all hazardous areas
(store rooms,kitchens,junitor's rooms,and boiler rooms)
and in rooms not normally occupied continually during hours
of occupancy.
2.Alarms shall be transmitted to the manager's office or other
occupied offices.No audtble alarm shall be sounded in the
audience or seating portion of the building.
b.Group "D"Occupancies as defined in the Building Code.
L Except jails,prisons and reformatories.
c.Group "B"Occupancies,as defined in the Building Code,two (2)
or more stories in height unless each unit exits directly to the ex-
terior of the butiding.
1.Stairways and corridors shall be equipped with nonrefractory
tonization products of combustion detectors.
2.All other areas,except the interior of apartment units,shall
be provided with either fixed temperature,fixed temperature/
rate of rise,or approved smoke-products of combustion detec-
tors.
3.Every dwelling unit within an apartment house shall be provided
with an approved detector of products of combustion other than
heat.This may be an approved self-·contained detector unit.
4.All Group "H"Occupancies three (3)or more storeis in height
shall have their fire alarm system connected to the fire alarm
dispatch center in a manner approved by the Fire Chief.
EXCEPTION:The Fire Chief may require the fire alarm system
to be connected to the dispatch center whenever the alarm
system is being used in an existing building to compensate
for a structural deficiency.
5.Group "I"Occupancies as defined in the Building Code shall
be provided with an approved detector of products of combus-
tion other than heat.This may be approved self-contained
detector unit.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force five (5)days after its passage and publica-
tion as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Council on this lith day of March ,1975,and APPROVED
by its Mayor.
Mayor -Gordon M.Ebbert
ATTEST:
City Clerk -R.R.Gegrd r
APPitOVED AS To FORM:
City rueY-John E.Calbom