It shall be unlawful for any person to use or permit to be used in any building within the fire limits any adobe or any imperfectly burned brick or other unsuitable materials, except as provided in section 7-33. The building inspector shall have power to order the immediate removal of any such material found upon or adjoining any premises where building, alterations or repairs are in progress, and it shall be unlawful for any owner, architect, builder or contractor, when notified by the building inspector, to fail to comply with his orders.
It shall be unlawful to use adobes less than six inches wide on the bed, or any adobes not faced with hard burned brick, properly bonded, in enclosing walls of residences exceeding ten feet in height, or to use adobes brick size in such walls, except in two courses faced with hard burned bricks, properly bonded, making a wall twelve inches thick, or to use adobes at all in first story walls of any building more than one story high.
The established depth of excavations for cellars and basements shall be ten feet below the sidewalk grade in front of the same. Any person who shall excavate below the above established depth shall, at his own proper cost and charge, save and protect the owners of adjoining property from injury or damage resulting from such excavation. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any excavation below the established depth, without first filing with the inspector of the proposed excavation the street, number and the name and address of the owner or agent, the depth of the proposed excavation and a statement of the methods to be employed for the protection of adjoining property, and receiving from the inspector of buildings and structures a permit to do such work; provided, that this section shall only apply to buildings and structures within the fire limits.
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or construct any stairway or passage leading from any street, avenue or alley into the basement or cellar of any building within the limits of the City, and thereby occupy any portion of the street, alley, avenue or sidewalk, or to excavate or construct any area or vault under any sidewalk or portion of the public streets, avenues or alleys of the City, unless the party so constructing the same shall have procured a permit to do so from the City council and shall have given a bond in an amount fixed by the inspector of buildings and structures, in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, which shall be approved by the City council. Such bond shall run to the City and to any person injured and shall be conditioned for the payment of all damages that may be adjudged against such person or against the City on account of any injury which may happen to any person or property by reason of such stairway, passage, areaway or vault, or by reason of the unsafe or dangerous condition of the same or of any covering, grating or railing being over or about the same. In no case shall excavations be made at a distance less than three feet from the curb line of the sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful to construct any cellar or basement under any building erected for business purposes within the fire limits, without providing the same with suitable openings for egress therefrom to the outside of the building in at least two separate places, one of which shall be located at the front and the other at or near the rear of such cellar or basement. Such openings shall be equipped with noncombustible ladders or steps leading to the surface of the street or alley. It shall be unlawful to cover the opening thereof with anything but iron doors or gratings, opening outward and fastened on the inside only with a hood or sliding bolt; or to fail at any time to maintain an unobstructed passageway, not less than four feet in width, leading from the entrance of the cellar to each of the aforesaid exits; or for any person to refuse to permit examination of such cellar or basement by the building inspector, chief engineer of the fire department or health officer at all reasonable times.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place in a sidewalk within the limits of the City any grating, the spaces between the bars of which are more than one and one-quarter inches in width, nor shall any grating project into a sidewalk more than five feet or project above such sidewalk, but must be flush therewith.
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Editor's Note: Former § 7-38 was repealed by Ord. No. 83-7.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or having the control or management of any theater, church, hotel, schoolhouse or other public building, resorted to or occupied by a considerable number of persons, to fail to provide the same, under the direction of the inspector of buildings and structures, with sufficient and safe means of speedy escape in case of accident or fire. In all cases the doors of such buildings, when used for public passage, shall open outwardly, and the doorways and passages shall be so constructed as to allow in the aggregate twenty-four inches width for every one hundred people such building is capable of seating. All aisles and passages in buildings used for public assemblages shall be kept free from chairs, stools, sofas, benches and other obstructions during any performance, service, exhibition, concert, lecture or any other public assemblage. All doors and exits of such buildings used for public assemblage or other places of amusement where people congregate for amusement shall, during the continuance of the gathering, be kept unlocked and in a condition to permit the speedy exit of the audience.
[Added 10-5-2010 by Ord. No. 10-06[2]]
A. 
All establishments, including but not limited to restaurants, bars and similar establishments, which may discharge grease from a scullery sink, pot and pan sink, dishwashing machine or floor drain, shall install and maintain a properly sized and located grease interceptor in accordance with the Uniform Plumbing Code, except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units.
B. 
Establishments shall create and follow an interceptor maintenance schedule based upon the size of the interceptor and the amount of trapped grease. Maintenance shall include draining, pumping, cleaning and properly disposing of trapped grease which shall be performed before the retention capacity of the interceptor is exceeded. At a minimum, a monthly inspection of the interceptor by the user shall be performed to assess the need for cleaning. Documentation shall be maintained by the user on site, in order to verify when the interceptor was inspected and cleaned.
C. 
The user shall allow City personnel ready access at all reasonable times to all parts of the premises for the purpose of inspection, sampling, record examination or in the performance of any other duties related to the interceptor serving the premises.
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Editor's Note: Former § 7-40 was repealed by Ord. No. 83-7.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance provided an effective date of 11-1-2011.
[Added by Ord. No. 81-96; amended by Ord. No. 83-7; Ord. No. 85-9]
A. 
All new utilities in the City, except major facilities as defined by the state public service commission and therefor requiring approval by the state public service commission, shall be located underground unless prior to placement, an exception to such underground placement is made as herein provided.
B. 
Any improvements or additions to existing utilities that increase the present capacity by more than fifty percent shall be placed underground.
C. 
Any renovation of or improvements or additions to existing utilities that exceed fifty percent of the cost of the existing utilities shall be placed underground.
D. 
Exceptions to the underground placement of utilities regulated by this section may be made and approved as follows:
(1) 
For those new services, or any improvements, additions or renovations thereto which are required to be placed underground and which are rated at 200 amperes or less, an exception to such underground placement may be granted in writing by the electrical inspector or, in absence thereof, the City engineer.
(2) 
For those new services, or any improvements, additions or renovations thereto which are required to be placed underground and which are over 200 amperes, an exception to such underground placement may be granted by the City electrical inspector in concurrence with the governing body by a majority vote thereof.
[Amended by Ord. No. 81-41]
Any person, whether as principal, agent, clerk, employee or servant, who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars, and each day's omission or neglect of the thing commanded to be done, and every continuance of any act or thing prohibited by this article, after notice, shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punished accordingly