Ordinance 88-2630 ORDINANCE NO. 88-2630
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, REPEALING
SECTIONS 14-1 THROUGH 14-75, CHAPTER 14 OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
AND CREATING NEW SECTIONS 14-1 THROUGH 14-6;
ADOPTING THE SOUTH FLORIDA FIRE PREVENTION
CODE AND ARTICLE III OF CHAPTER 14 OF THE
CODE OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA;
ADOPTING NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION
(NFPA) 101, LIFE SAFETY CODE (1985) ;
PROVIDING FOR INSPECTIONS BY FIRE CHIEF;
PROVIDING FOR DUTIES OF CHIEF OF FIRE
DEPARTMENT ; PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION; PROVIDING FOR GAS SHUT-OFF
REQUIREMENTS ; AMENDING SECTION 14-77
PROVIDING FOR SMOKE DETECTOR REQUIREMENTS;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH ; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: That Sections 14-1 through 14-75, Chapter 14 , Miami
Beach City Code are hereby repealed and new Sections 14-1 through
14-6 are hereby created to read as follows:
CHAPTER 14 . FIRE PREVENTION
SECTION 14-1. Adoption by reference; Short title
The South Florida Fire Prevention Code and Article III of Chapter
14 of the Code of Metropolitan Dade County, Florida are hereby
adopted by reference as if fully set forth herein, as said Codes
may be amended from time to time. The South Florida Fire
Prevention Code may hereinafter be referred to as the
"S. F. F.P.C. " .
SECTION 14-2 . Adoption by reference
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101, Life Safety
Code, 1985 edition is hereby adopted by reference as if fully set
forth herein, as said Code may be amended from time to time.
SECTION 14-3 . Inspection by Fire Chief
The Chief Fire Official and the Chief Fire Code Enforcement
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Official shall be the Chief of the Miami Beach Fire Department.
The chief of the fire department or any members thereof that the
Chief may direct may, at all reasonable hours, enter any building
or premises within the city for purposes of making any
inspection, or investigation which, under the provisions of this
chapter, the chief may deem necessary to be made.
SECTION 14-4 . General-Duties of Fire rbc artment Chief
It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to
inspect or cause to be inspected by fire department personnel, as
often as may be necessary all buildings, for the purpose of
ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to
cause fire, or any violations of the provisions or intent of this
code or other ordinances of the city affecting fire hazards.
Such personnel are further authorized and directed to take such
action as may be necessary and proper in the opinion of the chief
of the department, under life threatening matters, to correct
violations which occur in their presence.
SECTION 14-5. Penalties for Violation - Life Safety Code
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail to
comply with any of the provisions of Chapter 5, section 5-2 . 1. 5,
of the National Fire Protection Association, Publication No. 101,
otherwise known as the Life Safety Code, 1985 edition, as may be
amended, shall upon conviction, be fined not less than one
hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than one
thousand dollars for each subsequent violation. In addition, the
county judge may, in his discretion, impose an additional penalty
of imprisonment for a period of up to ninety days. Each day such
violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate
offense.
SECTION 14-6. Gas Shut-off Required
In order to control the flow of fuel gas in routine and emergency
situations to prevent explosions in the interest of public
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safety, gas shut-offs, sometimes referred to as gas cocks, shall
be provided as listed herein for gas installations.
/a) Control valves shall be provided in all residential and
commercial buildings. Each valve shall be legibly marked, so
that the unit which it serves can be readily identified. Such
control valves shall be located outside any building prior to the
entry of the supply line into the building. Emergency shut-off
valves for individual buildings, as re .pired in National Fire
Protection Standard No. 54, Section 2 . 11. 2 (a) (b) , shall be
provided and protected from physical damage, as required in
paragraph (c) herein:
(b) When service is disconnected or interrupted, the following
safety precautions shall be taken:
(1) Where meters are provided, the gas shut-off valve shall
be locked in the closed position, and the meter plugged or
capped, "gas-tight", at the discharge outlet;
(2) Where only control valves are provided, it shall be
locked in the closed position, and the valve plugged or capped
"gas-tight" on the discharge side of the shut-off valve. The
valve controlling disconnected service shall be clearly so
labelled by a plastic marker, bearing substantially the following
legend: "Out of service. Do not touch, tamper or remove, under
penalty of law. "
(c) In all new construction, control valves shall be protected
from physical damage either by location, or by a durable
noncombustible enclosure;
(d) In all existing buildings or new construction, installation
of any gas appliance connected to a gas line shall have an
accessible manual shut-off valve installed upstream of the union
or connector, and within six feet of the appliance it serves -
/e) In all buildings when the appliance is disconnected, the gas
line shall be plugged or capped "gas-tight" on the discharge side
of the valve;
(f) All liquefied petroleum gas systems shall have emergency_
shut-off valving at the tank. (Ord. No. 1882 , 1. )
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SECTION 2 : That Section 14-77, Chapter 14 , Miami Beach City
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 14-77 . Requirements.
(a) The owner of each dwelling or sleeping unit which is
constructed or substantially rehabilitated under a building
permit issued after the effective date of this ordinance, shall
install smoke detectors as required by tgle--Ei€e- -43ode--e€
the-Net4e a4_--1 1:..--Pre t ext-Asseeiat en, -1901--ed-i-t-i-cm National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101, Life Safety Code (1985) ,
as amended. No certificate of occupancy may be issued for any
dwelling or sleeping unit unless smoke detectors have been
installed as required by this ordinance.
(b) Within six months of the passage of this ordinance all
owners of existing dwelling or sleeping units must install
either:
(1) A battery operated smoke detector meeting the
requirements of U.L. 217 (Standards for Single and Multiple
Station Smoke Detectors) ; or
(2) A permanently wired smoke detector "hardwired" to a
permanent non-shut off circuit, said installation meeting the
requirements of U.L. 268 (Smoke Detectors for Fire Protection
Signaling Systems) . (Ord. No. 85-2437, Section 2 . )
SECTION 3 : REPEALER. That all ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4 : SEVERABILITY. If any section , subsection ,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is, for
any reason, held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate,
distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not
affect the validity of remaining portions of this ordinance.
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SECTION 5: EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take effect
ten days after its adoption on October 2 , 1988 .
PASSED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of September , 1988 .
ATTEST: /1 :20/1
MAYOR
FORM APPROVED
LEGAL DEPT.
City Clerk
1st Reading - September 7, 1988 By
2nd Reading - SEptember 22, 1988
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