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AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRE PREVENTION CODE PRESCRIBING
REGULATIONS GOVERNING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS TO LIFE AND
PROPERTY FROM FIRE OR EXPLOSION, PROVIDING, FOR ADMINIS-
TRATION, PENALTIES AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA:
ARTICLE IX
Section 4-110. ADOPTION OF FIRE PREVENTION CODE.
There is hereby adopted by the County of Indian River,
Florida, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing
conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explo-
sion, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code
recommended by the American Insurance Association, being
particularly the 1976 Edition thereof; and the whole thereof,
save and except, such portions as are hereinafter deleted,
modified, or amended, of which Code not less than three (3)
copies shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court and the same are hereby adopted as fully as it is set out
at length herein; and the provisions thereof shall be con-
trolling within the unincorporated limits of the County of
Indian River.
Section 4-111. ENFORCEMENT OF CODE.
a) The Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the
County Administrator, who shall have authority to
delegate his inspection and enforcement responsi-
bilties to such Fire Departments within the County,
as is necessary to enforce this Ordinance.
b) The County Administrator shall have control and
supervision of all fire prevention activities within
the unincorporated limits of the County of Indian River.
c) Whenever any dangerous or hazardous conditions or
materials are found, the County Administrator, through
his delegated enforcement official, shall order such
dangerous conditions or materials to be removed or
remedied in such a manner as may be specified by the
County Administrator.
Section 4-112. MODIFICATION.
The County Administrator shall have the power to modify any
of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code upon application,
in writing, by the owner or leasee, or his duly authorized agent,
when there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying
out the strict letter of the Code, provided that the intent of
the Code shall be observed, public safety secured, and sub-
stantial justice done. The particulars of such modifications,
when granted or allowed, and the decision of the County
Administrator, or his delegated enforcement official, shall
be entered upon records of the County and a signed copy shall
be furnished the applicant.
Section 4-113. APPEALS.
Whenever it is claimed that the provisions of the Code do not
apply or that the true intent and meaning of the Code have been
misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the person affected, or
his duly authorized agent, is permitted to appeal from the
decision of the County Administrator to the County Board of
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Adjustment. and Appeals wi th.in thirty (30) days from the (late
of the decision appealed. Said Board of Adjustments and Appeals
having been established by Section 1.11.1 of the Standard
Building Code adopted by Indian River County Ordinance 77-1O
Section 4-1.1.4. PENALTIES.
Persons violating this Ordinance, or any provision of the Piro
Prevention Code, unless said condition has been modified
formally under Section 3, shall be prosecuted and shall be
punished by a fine, not to exceed rive Iiundred Dollars ($500.00),
or by imprisonment in the County jail, not to exceed sixty
(60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 4-115. VALIDITY.
Should any section, paragraph, sentence, or word of this
Ordinance, or of the adopted Code, be declared, for any reason,
to be invalid, all other portions of this Ordinance shall
remain in full force and effect.
Section 4-116. DATE OF EFFECT.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after
its approval as required by Law.
This Ordinance shall take effect June 26, 1978.
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