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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0582ORDINANCE NO. 582 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1997 OF THE ORDINANCE CODE OF THE CITY OF BUR- LINGAME BY ADDING SUBSECTION 1-a THERETO PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS AND CONNECTIONS AND RECIT- ING THE EMERGENCY REQUIRING THE ORDINANCE TO BE EFFECTIVE UPON ITS PASSAGE. The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain as follows: SECTION l: Section 1997 of the Ordinance Code of the City of Burlingame is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection numbered 1-a which shall read as follows: 111-a. Fire Alarm Systems and Connections. "Necessary fire alarm systems or extensions of the exist- ing fire alarm system, including their connection to the central control panel and the enlargement of the central control panel caused by any such connections, shall be installed as ordered by the Chief of the Fire Department. "The developer or subdivider may file an application for a variance from the order of the Chief of the Fire Department and notices thereof shall be given, hearings held and testimony and evidence taken by the City Council in the same manner as is pro- vided for in Section 1996 of the Ordinance Code in cases of an application for a variance from an order of rejection or modif- ication by the City Engineer, and a variance may be granted by the City Council upon findings of all of the things to be true which are required for the granting of a variance from an order of the City Engineer." SECTION 2. This Council hereby declares that an emergency exists which constitutes a danger to the public health, welfare and safety of the people of the City of Burlingame and which makes it imperative in the furtherance of the public health, safety and welfare that this ordinance become effective forthwith. The nat- ure of the emergency exists in the lack of regulations requiring the installation or extension of fire alarm systems in or to certain lands within the City of Burlingame which the City has been petitioned to subdivide and in or to certain other lands which the City is about to annex and which will be immediately subdivided. by law. SECTION:: 3. This ordinance shall be published as required -�_,L D=am CHARLES W. ROOTH VICE -MAYOR I, HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the lath day of April, 1955, and adopted on the 18th day of April, 1955, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: BYRD, MORGAN, ROOTH NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE ABSENT COUNCILMEN: ATWATER, SHEEHAN HERBERT K. WHITE CITY CLERK