[Adopted 3-16-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-07]
[Amended 12-20-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-05]
The Board of Supervisors of East Caln Township
hereby adopts the International Property Maintenance Code, 2006 Edition,
as now and as hereafter supplemented, reissued, amended and revised,
as published by the International Code Council, Inc. Not fewer than
three copies of the International Property Maintenance Code, 2006
Edition, have been and now are filed in the office of the Secretary
of East Caln Township, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated
as fully as if set out at length herein.
[Amended 12-20-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-05]
The following amendments, additions, deletions
and changes are hereby made to the International Property Maintenance
Code, 2006 Edition:
A.
Section 101.1 shall be amended by the insertion of
the words East Caln Township, replacing [Name of Jurisdiction].
B.
Section 103 shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced
with the following: § 103 Office of Life Safety and Code
Enforcement.
C.
Section 103.1 shall be deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following:
§ 103.1 Code enforcement agency. The Office of Life Safety and Code Enforcement shall be responsible
for administering and enforcing this code. The Director of the Office
of Life Safety and Code Enforcement shall be appointed by the Township
Manager and shall be certified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to serve as the Township's Building Official. For the purposes of
this code, the Director of the Office of Life Safety and Code Enforcement
shall be referred to as the Code Official.
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D.
Section 103.5 shall be amended to state as follows:
§ 103.5 Fee schedule. A fee schedule shall be adopted by resolution of the Board of Supervisors
of East Caln Township, which may be amended from time to time.
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E.
Section 106.4 shall be deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following:
§ 106.4 Violations and penalties. Any person who violates or permits the violation of any provision
of this article or who shall fail to comply with any of the requirements
thereof or who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail
to comply with any of the requirements thereof shall, upon conviction
thereof, in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District
Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty
of a summary offense and shall be subject to the payment of a fine
of not less than $250 and not more than $1,000, plus court costs of
prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced
to imprisonment in the County Prison for a term of not more than 90
days. Each section or provision of this article that is violated shall
constitute a separate offense, and each day or portion thereof in
which a violation of this chapter is found to exist shall constitute
a separate offense, each of which violations shall be punishable by
a separate fine imposed by the Magisterial District Judge of not less
than $250 and not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, or
upon default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to
imprisonment in the County Prison for a term of not more than 90 days.
All fines and penalties collected for the violation of this chapter
shall be paid to the Township Treasurer.
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F.
Section 111, Board of Appeals, shall be deleted and
replaced with the following:
§ 111.1 General. The
Township intends by agreement with one or more other municipalities,
to form an intergovernmental Board of Appeals which Board shall hear
and decide appeals of orders, decisions or determinations made by
the respective municipality's building official relative to the application
and interpretation of the municipality's building code. The members
of the intergovernmental Board of Appeals shall be appointed by the
participating municipalities and shall be governed by rules and regulations
adopted by the participating municipalities. The intergovernmental
Board of Appeals shall adopt rules of procedures for conducting its
business.
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G.
Section 302.8, Motor vehicles, shall be amended to
add the words "not inspected, not insured" in the second line, after
the word unlicensed.
H.
Section 304.14 shall be amended by the deletion of
the words [DATE] and the replacement thereof with "May 1 and October
1."
I.
Section 602.3 shall be amended by the deletion of
the words, [DATE] and the replacement thereof with "October 15 and
April 15."
J.
Section 602.4 shall be amended by the deletion of
the words, [DATE], and the replacement thereof with "October 15 and
April 15."
K.
A new Chapter 8 shall be added which shall read as
follows:
Chapter 8
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COMMUNICATIONS AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS
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§ 800. Definitions. The
following words and terms shall, for the purposes of this section
and as used elsewhere in this code, have the meaning shown herein.
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APCO — Associates Public Safety Communications
Official International.
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NABER — National Association of Business
and Education Radio.
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CCDES — Chester County Department of Emergency
Services.
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PCIA — Personal Communications Industry
Association.
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FCC — Federal Communications Commission.
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NPSPAC — National Public Safety Planning
Advisory Committee.
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§ 801. General provisions.
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Except as otherwise provided, no person shall
erect, construct, alter, refit, change the use of, or provide an addition
of more than 20% of the existing floor area to any building, structure
or any part thereof, or cause the same to be done, which fails to
support adequate radio coverage for CCDES, the Downingtown Fire Department
and Ambulance, Downingtown Police Department and Pennsylvania State
Police.
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For the purpose of this section, adequate radio
coverage shall include all the following:
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1.
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A minimum signal strength of -95 dBm available
in 98% of the area of each floor of the buildings when transmitted
from the closest CCDES radio communications system site;
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2.
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A minimum signal strength of -95 dBm received
at the closest CCDES radio communications site when transmitted from
98% of the area of each floor of the building.
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3.
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The frequency range which must be supported
shall be between 821.0125 MHz and 868.6095 MHz.
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4.
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A 95% reliability factor.
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5.
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Signal strength measurements, for the purpose
of measuring the performance of a bidirectional amplifier, shall be
based on one input signal adequate to obtain a maximum continuous
operating out level.
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6.
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The provisions of this section shall become
applicable upon notification to the property owner that unacceptable
performance levels exist. The property owner shall have 90 days from
the date of notification to enhance radio coverage and bring it within
the acceptable limits of these provisions.
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§ 802. Amplification systems
allowed. Buildings and structures which cannot support the
required level of radio coverage shall be equipped with either a radiating
cable system or an internal multiple antenna system with or without
FCC-type accepted bidirectional 800 MHz amplifiers as needed. If any
part of the installed system or systems contains an electrically powered
component, the system shall be capable of operating on an independent
battery and/or generator system for a period of at least 12 hours
without external power input. The battery system shall charge in the
presence of an external power input. If used, bidirectional amplifiers
shall include filters to reduce adjacent frequency interference at
35 dB below the NPSPAC band. Settings used should not attenuate the
NPSPAC frequencies and further provided that they are not more than
one MHz from the NPSPAC frequencies.
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§ 803. Testing procedures.
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803.1. Acceptance test procedure. When an in-building radio system is required, and upon completion
of installation, it will be the building owner's responsibility to
have the radio system tested to ensure the two-way coverage on each
floor of the building is a minimum of 98%. Each floor of the building
shall be divided into a grid of approximately 20 equal areas. A maximum
of two nonadjacent areas will be allowed to fail the test. In the
event that three of the areas fail the test, in order to be more statistically
accurate, the floor may be divided in 40 equal areas. In such event,
a maximum of four nonadjacent areas will be allowed to fail the test.
After the forty-area test, if the system continues to fail, the building
owner shall have the system altered to meet the 98% coverage requirement.
The test shall be conducted using the most current E.F. Johnson portable
radio or its equivalent, available from the Emergency Services Providers
or CCDES, as specified by the authority having jurisdiction. A spot
located approximately in the center of a grid area will be selected
for the test, then the radio will be keyed to verify two-way communications
to and from the outside of the building through CCDES. Once the spot
has been selected, prospecting for a better spot within the grid area
will not be permitted. The gain values of all amplifiers shall be
measured and the test measurement results shall be kept on file with
the building owner so that the measurements can be verified each year
during the annual tests. In the event that the measurements results
became lost, the building owner will be required to rerun the acceptance
test to re-establish the gain values.
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803.2. Annual tests. When an in-building
radio system is required, the building owner shall test all active
components of the system including but not to the amplifiers, power
supplies and backup batteries, a minimum of once every 12 months.
Amplifiers shall be tested to ensure that the gain is the same as
it was upon initial installation and acceptance. Backup batteries
and power supplies shall be tested under load for a period of one
hour to verify that they will properly operate during an actual power
outage. If within the one hours test period, in the opinion of the
testing technician, the batteries exhibit symptoms of failure, the
test shall be extended for an additional hour until the testing technician
confirms the integrity of the battery. All other active components
shall be checked to determine that they area operating within the
manufacturer's specifications for the intended purpose.
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803.3. Five-year tests. In addition
to the annual test, the building owner shall perform a radio coverage
test of a minimum of once every five years to ensure to that the radio
system continues to meet the requirements of the original acceptance
test. The procedure set forth above shall apply to such tests. A copy
of accepted tests shall be provided to the CCDES.
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§ 804. Field testing. Police, Fire or Code Personnel, after being provided reasonable
notice to the owner or his representative, shall have the right to
enter onto the property to conduct field testing to be certain that
the required levels of radio coverage is present.
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§ 805. Exemptions. This
section shall not apply to structures of Use Group R-3 and R-4. For
the purposes of this section, parking structures and stairwells are
included in the definition of "building" and stair shafts are included
in the definition of "all parts of a building," but elevators may
be excluded.
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§ 806. Existing buildings and
structures. Any non-exempt building or structure, existing,
under construction, or for which a building permit application is
pending or has been approved as of the effective date of this section
shall comply with the requirements of this section, if CCDES, East
Caln Township or the Downingtown Fire Department, determines that
adequate radio coverage, as defined in § 800, does not exist
in the building or structure. The owner of the building or structure
shall be notified in writing of the inadequacy of the coverage and
shall have a period of 90 consecutive calendar days from the date
of notice to comply with this section, including but not limited to
enhancing radio coverage and bringing it within the acceptable limits
of this section.
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