[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Smithfield 5-22-1984
(Ch. 10, Art. III, Div. 1, of the 1985 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted
where applicable.]
A.
Private property owners within the Town shall be allowed
to connect private local energy master fire alarm boxes on their property
to the Smithfield fire alarm circuits. Such connections shall be in conformance
with any rules and regulations as may be enacted from time to time, by the
Superintendent of Fire Alarm, with the approval of the Chief of the Fire Department.
B.
There shall be a connection fee of $200. An additional
charge of $0.25 per foot will be charged for connections in excess of 100
feet. This connection fee is to be paid to the general fund of the Town for
the cost of wire, hardware, labor, installation and maintenance of the Town
circuits.
[1]
Editor's Note: State law references - Fire alarm systems, G.L. 1956,
§ 23-28.25-1 et seq.
A.
Master box. The master box shall be of the local energy
type and be one-half-second timing, with a TII-317B lightning arrester. Code
numbers will be assigned upon approval of prints. Spare keys and other devices
needed to reset the local system shall be located inside the master box.
B.
Supervisory panel. A point-to-point wiring diagram, exhibiting
all locations of components and wire pull boxes shall be located within the
supervisory and reset panel. Spare glass rods and/or glass plates shall also
be located inside the panel. The panel shall be approved for low energy cable,
if applicable.
C.
Wiring. Wiring shall be in conduit, EMT or wire mould.
All wiring shall be THHN No. 14 American wire gauge solid. All wiring shall
be class A. Where the system is to be connected to the Town circuit via aerial
construction, the owner of the property shall bring two THHN No. 14 solid
wire from the master box to a point on the outside of the building designated
by the director of communications. These wires shall be enclosed in conduit
or EMT and shall be brought to an appropriate dead-end device close to the
weather cap. The dead-end device shall not be less than 16 feet above the
ground level and shall be securely fastened to the building. Where it is more
expedient to wire underground, the owner shall install rigid conduit two inches
or larger, from a point designated by the Chief of the Fire Department or
his lawful designee to a point near the location of the master box or to the
master box itself. The owner shall install a minimum of one pair International
Municipal Signal Association (IMSA) 20-2-1973 cable in said rigid conduit.
This same IMSA cable shall be used when wiring between buildings which also
shall be in rigid conduit.
D.
Color code.
(1)
Detector circuit shall be red and black. Red shall be
one side of the line and black the other side.
(2)
Horn circuit shall be blue and white. Blue shall be positive
and white negative.
(3)
Evacuation alarm and light circuit shall be orange and
yellow.
(4)
Sprinkler connection zones shall carry color as the detector
circuits, red and black.
(5)
Door holder shall be gray and gray.
(6)
Smoke detectors requiring a separate power supply shall
use the color violet and brown.
(7)
Master box tripping circuit shall be orange and orange.
(8)
Master box supervisory, if required, shall be red and
white.
(9)
Bond wire from the fire alarm panel and the master box,
if required by the local authority having jurisdiction, shall be green.
(10)
The wiring from the master box to the Town fire alarm
loop shall be black and white.
(11)
The alternating current loop to the main fire alarm panel
shall be white, black and red. The black wire shall be one phase and the red
wire the opposite phase.
(12)
If a separate feed is required for the battery charger,
it shall be black and white, unless the main fire alarm panel required only
one alternating current feed. In this case, the conductors to the battery
charger shall be red and white and shall be on a circuit breaker of its own.
(13)
All conductors shall be No. 14 gauge solid and then shall
be rated at a minimum on 90º C. (No. 16 gauge solid TFFN may be used
subject to the authority having jurisdiction). Low energy cable may be selectively
installed in areas of existing buildings only where the installations of raceway
is impractical. Two conductor low energy cables may be used where multiple
conductors are impractical for each conductor must be identifiable and subject
to authority having jurisdiction. Any time two or more detector circuits are
in the same conduit or raceway with conductors with identifying numbers, the
entire length of the wire space at two-inch intervals shall be used. In a
numbered system, two-inch intervals may be used in lieu of the above color
code.
(14)
Any other authorized auxiliary device shall be a separate
and distinct color, such as tan, and shall be clearly identified at each junction
location.
A.
All existing and future installations of dialing devices
shall be interconnected to a special trunk line.
B.
Prior to the connection of any automatic dialing devices
to the special trunk line, an alarm user's permit must be obtained from the
Town at the Fire Department headquarters. The alarm user's permit fee shall
be made payable to the general fund, Town of Smithfield, State of Rhode Island.
It shall be $10 with one-quarter-year minimum. All permits shall expire on
December 31 of each year. The permit shall be physically upon the premises
using the alarm system and shall be available for inspection.
C.
The Town shall not be liable for any defects in the operation
of automatic protection devices and signal lines of the systems, nor for any
failure or neglect to respond appropriately upon receipt of any alarm from
such a source.
D.
No permit issued pursuant to this section shall be transferable.
E.
More than four false alarms a calendar year from the
time any alarm system user's permit has been obtained may constitute grounds
for revocation of such permit, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
F.
After the Department has recorded four false alarms in
a year, it shall notify the permit holder in writing of such fact, and require
that the permit holder report to the Smithfield Fire Department within five
days of his effort to eliminate false alarms. If the permit holder fails to
submit a report within 15 days, or of reasonable extension for good cause,
the Fire Department may revoke the user's permit and under such circumstances
the user shall not be entitled to a hearing or appeal under this section.
G.
If the alarm user submits an unsatisfactory report, or
has one or more false alarms during the same calendar year after submitting
a satisfactory report, the Fire Department may revoke or suspend the alarm
user's permit. The fee for false alarms over four per year shall be $10 for
each false alarm.
H.
An alarm system user whose permit has been revoked may
apply for a new permit. The Fire Department may impose reasonable restrictions
and conditions upon issuing a new permit to an alarm user, with respect to
the particular system for which the permit was revoked.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: State law reference - Types of fire alarms systems,
G.L. 1956, § 23-28.25-4.
