[Ord. No. 17-061 § 6, 7-5-2017; Ord.
No. 23-102, 11-13-2023]
St. Charles County hereby adopts the 2021 St. Charles County
Fuel Gas Code, a copy of which shall be deposited in the Office of
the County Registrar with this ordinance, with the following amendments
by additions, insertions, deletions and changes so that such section
and subsections read as follows:
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(CHAPTER 1 SCOPE AND ADMINISTRATION)
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(SECTION 101 (IFGC) SCOPE AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS)
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101.1. Title. These regulations shall be known
as the Fuel Gas Code of St. Charles County, Missouri, hereinafter
referred to as "this code."
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(SECTION 103 (IFGC) CODE COMPLIANCE AGENCY)
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103.1 Creation of enforcement agency. The Division
of Building and Code Enforcement within the Department of Community
Development is hereby created and the official in charge thereof shall
be known as the Code Official. The function of the agency shall be
the implementation, administration and enforcement of the provisions
of this code.
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103.2 Appointment. The Code Official shall be appointed
as provided by ordinance.
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(SECTION (IFGC) 106 PERMITS)
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106.5.3 Expiration. Every permit issued shall become
invalid unless the work on the site authorized by such permit is commenced
within one hundred eighty (180) days after its issuance, or if the
work authorized on the site by such permit is suspended or abandoned
for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days after the time the work
is commenced.
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106.5.3.1 Reinstatement. A permit that
has expired may be reinstated where approved by the Code Official.
The request for reinstatement shall be in writing and justifiable
caused demonstrated.
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106.5.4 Extensions. The Code Official is authorized
to grant, in writing, one (1) or more extensions of time for periods
not more than one hundred eighty (180) days each. The extension shall
be requested in writing and justifiable cause demonstrated.
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(SECTION 107 (IFGC) CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS)
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107.1 General. Construction documents, engineering
calculations, diagrams and other data shall be submitted as required
by the Code Official, with each application for a permit. The Code
Official shall require construction documents, computations and specifications
to be prepared and designed by a registered design professional where
required by State law. Where special conditions exist, the Code Official
is authorized to require additional construction documents to be prepared
by a registered design professional. Construction documents shall
be drawn to scale and shall be of sufficient clarity to indicate the
location, nature and extent of the work proposed and show in detail
that the work conforms to the provisions of this code. Construction
documents for buildings more than two (2) stories in height shall
indicate where penetrations will be made for mechanical systems, and
the materials and methods for maintaining required structural safety,
fire resistance rating and fireblocking.
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Exception: The Code Official shall
have the authority to waive the submission of construction documents,
calculations or other data if the nature of the work applied for is
such that reviewing of construction documents is not necessary to
determine compliance with this code.
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107.1.2 Electronic submission. Where
design documents, including, but not limited to, plot plans, site
plans, design drawings, specifications, etc. are originally created
electronically, the Building Official is authorized to require electronic
submittal of documents in a portable document format (PDF) or similar
format for review. Where design documents were originally prepared
on paper and are submitted in a paper form, the Code Official is authorized
to charge a fee for converting those drawings to PDF equal to the
cost incurred by County staff recreating the document and not to exceed
more than one dollar ($1.00) per page.
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Exception: Where submittal documents
were originally prepared by hand and are eleven (11) inches by seventeen
(17) inches or less, the fee for document conversion shall not be
charged.
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(SECTION 113 (IFGC) MEANS OF APPEALS)
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113.1 General. For the purposes of this code, all appeals shall be in accordance with the procedure established for the Building Code of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Section 113 of Section 500.100.
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113.2 Limitations on authority. Delete in its entirety.
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113.3 Qualifications. Delete in its entirety.
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113.4 Administration. Delete in its entirety
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(SECTION 114 (IFGC) BOARD OF APPEALS)
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(SECTION 115 (IFGC) VIOLATIONS)
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115.4 Violation penalties. Persons who shall violate
a provision of this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements
thereof or who shall erect, install, alter or repair work in violation
of the approved construction documents or directive of the Code Official,
or a permit or certificate issued under the provisions of this code,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served
shall be deemed a separate offense.
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(SECTION 116 (IFGC) STOP WORK ORDER)
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116.2 Issuance. The stop work order shall be in
writing and shall be given to the owner of the property involved,
the owner's authorized agent or the person performing the work.
Upon issuance of a stop work order, the cited work shall immediately
cease. The stop work order shall state the reason for the order and
the conditions under which the cited work will be permitted to resume.
Any person served with a stop work order shall pay an administrative
penalty of up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)
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