[Adopted 3-9-1999 by the ATM, Art. 38[1] ]
[1]
Editor's Note: Article 38 of the 3-9-1999 ATM also superseded former Art. VI, Sprinkler Systems, adopted 11-28-1989 by Ord. No. O89-24.
This article establishes the requirement for and regulations governing the installation and maintenance of sprinkler systems for the safeguarding of life and property from the hazards of fire and explosion in specified occupancies.
[Amended 3-9-2004]
Certain documents, one copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Hudson, being marked as designated "NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems," 1999 edition (hereinafter referred to as NFPA 13, 1999 edition), and "NFPA 13R, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in Residential Occupancies up to Four Stories in Height," 1999 edition (hereinafter referred to as NFPA 13R, 1999 edition), are hereby adopted as the standard for installation of sprinkler systems in the Town of Hudson, New Hampshire. The standards are adopted for the control of fire in specified buildings and structures as herein provided; and each and all regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said standards are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof, as is fully set out in this article, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in § 210-17 of this article.
Any and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
NFPA 13, 1996 edition, and NFPA 13R, 1996 edition, are adopted in their entirety, except that such additions, insertions or changes as may be specified in § 210-18, Applicability, shall be incorporated in the standard for the Town of Hudson.
A. 
The standards prescribed in NFPA 13, 1999 edition, and NFPA 13R, 1999 edition, for design, installation, acceptance tests and maintenance of residential sprinkler systems shall apply to and be installed in the following occupancies and/or structures:
[Amended 3-9-2004]
(1) 
New multifamily structures of three or more units, regardless of the form of ownership or marketing (i.e. rental, owned, condominium, townhouse, etc.,), up to and including four stories in height that are not required by any other Town adopted code or standard shall be provided with an approved sprinkler system in accordance with NFPA 13R, 1999 edition.
(2) 
New multiunit (more than one) nonresidential structures that are not required by any other Town adopted code or standard shall be provided with an approved sprinkler system in accordance with NFPA-13, 1999 edition.
(3) 
Existing structures undergoing such alteration or expansion that it increases the number of individual residential units to three or more shall be provided with an approved sprinkler system in accordance with NFPA-13R, 1999 edition. Existing structures undergoing such alteration or expansion that it changes its original use and/or increases the number of nonresidential units to more than one shall be provided with an approved sprinkler system in accordance with NFPA 13, 1999 edition.
B. 
This article shall not apply to new or existing multiunit nonresidential structures that are not located on a public or private municipal water system as follows:
(1) 
Any building which is less than 10,000 square feet in total aggregate floor area unless an approved automatic sprinkler system is otherwise required by the Town Building Code, State Fire Code or any other applicable code, ordinance, etc., of the Town of Hudson.
A. 
Sprinkler systems shall be designed, installed, tested and maintained in accordance with the standards set forth in NFPA 13, 1999 edition, and NFPA-13R, 1999 edition.
[Amended 3-9-2004]
B. 
All proposed sprinkler systems as designed shall be approved by the Fire Department prior to installation thereof.
C. 
This article or any part thereof shall not supersede any other more stringent law, ordinance, code, regulation, etc.
Nothing in this article hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court or any rights acquired or liability incurred or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing under any act or ordinance hereby repealed as cited in § 210-16 of this article, nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this article.