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ORDINANCE NO.'
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION IN CONNECTION
WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND PROCESSES.
BE IT ORDAINED B Y THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ~uEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSASs
SECTION 1. ADOPTION OF FIRE PREVENTION COIF. There is hereby
adopted by the City of West Memphis for the purpose of providing for fire
prevention and protection in connection with hazardous materials and pro-
cesses, that certain code known as the Fire Prevention Code, Abbreviated
Edition, recommended by the National Board of Fire Undex~rriters of New
Yorks being particularly the 1950 edition thereof and the whole thereof,
save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or
amended, of which not less than three (3) copies have been and now are
filed in the office of the City Clerk of the City of West Memphis and
the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at
length herein and from the date on which this ordinance shall take ef-
fect~ the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of
the City of West Memphis.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. Wherever the word. "Municipality" is
used in said code, it shall be held to-mean the City of West Memphis.
SECTION 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF LIMITS IN eJHICH BULK STORAGE OF
FLAMABLE LIQUIDS IS PROHIBITED. (1) The limits in Section 312 of said
code in which bulk storage of flammable liquids in outside aboveground
tanks is prohibited, are hereby established as follows:
Shall be the same as that provided in Ordinance No. 22l~
SECTION !~. AMENI~IENTS MADE IN SAID CODE. The said code is
amended and changed in the following respects
It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to
survey or cause to be surveyed by fire department officers or members
each mercantile and manufacturing establishment,, each school, each place
of assembly, each hospital br place of detentions and. each hotel, motel,
apartment house or tenement building, clubs and lily establishments
storage rooms involving considerably combustible materials rooms in
which hazardous manufacturing processes are involved, garage sections,
and other places of a generally hazardous nature. Such officer or member
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of the fire department shall designate suitable fire appliances for the
probable class of fire. Such appliances may consist of fixed, wheeled
or portable extinguishers, standpipe and hose, automatic sprinklers,
automatic fire detection and alarm systems, suitable asbestos blankets,
manual or automatic covers or the introduction of inert gas. In
specially hazardous occupancies or excessive storages, appliances of
more than one type may be required or special systems installed.
SECTION 5. VALIDITY. The invalidity of any section or pro-
vision of this ordinance or of the code hereby adopted shall not in-
validate other sections or provisions thereof.
SECTION 6. INCONSISTENT ORDINANCES REPEALED. Ordinances
or parts thereof in force at the time that this ordinance shall take
effect and inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
PASSED AND APPROVED This 17th day of June, 1952.
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