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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1961-08-14 189-N ORDINANCE.. ` Introduced! by Caunc ilor Bailey Aug. 14, 1961 89-N CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE,) MIb[nttittrT Amending, Chapter VI -1 - Adopting.Building Sxite. Code... _.._... BeitoxdaiwdbyMe City CouncUofNw CigofBaepx, asfoll v That Chapter VII of the Leve and Ordinances of the City of Bangor, Maine be and is hereby amended by adding thereto a new article, as follows: CHAPTER VII ARTICLE 10 - BOILOING EXITS CODE See. I Adopting Building Exits Code. That the code for public safety from fire, namely, the "Building Exits Code", Seventeenth Edition, 1960, published by the National Fire Protection Association, be and is hereby adapted for the City of Bangor, and that the enforcing authority shall be the Fire Chief of the City of Bangor or the City Building Inspector. Sec. 2 Violations. The Building Inspector or the Fire Chief of the City of Bangor shall send a Witten order to The owner, his agent, lessee or occupant of a building or structure used for public aaaembly an defined by the Building Exits Code requiring any conditions which exist in violation of said Building Exits Code to be corrected. Sec. 3 Time Limits. Such written order when relating to a building or structure used for public assembly, as aforesaid, shall require any conditions which exist in violation of said code to be Corrected within thirty (30) days after the order is sent. Said Witten order, when relating to any other building or structure, shall require any conditions which exist In violation of said code to be corrected within sixty (60) days after the order 1e sent. (continued) vfl �e 2w0 -' CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) Wrbinmrf, _... __ _... Be(t mdahud bytl City CmaeoU oft City of Bangor, as(gtbsu: Sec. 4 Appeals. An appeal may be taken from any order issued by the Building Inspector or Fire Chief, or from their refusal to grant a permit, to the municipal officers and from the municipal officers to the Superior Court. 4.1 Municipal Officers. on an appeal In writing to the municipal officers, they shall at their neat meeting affirm, modify or set aside the decision of the Building Inspector or Fire Chief according to the terms of the pertinent ordinance. They may permit a variation from the terms of an ordinance w1cere necessary to avoid undue harshlp, provided there is no substantial departure from the Intent of the ordinance. They may permit an exception to an ordinance only when the terms of the exception have been specifically set forth by the municipality. The failure of the municipal officers to issue a written notice of their decision, directed to the appellant, within thirty (30) days from the date of filing of the appeal, constitutes a denial of tha appeal. 4.2 Superior Court. The appeal to the Superior Court shall be entered at the term first occurring 1n the county not leas than thirty (30) days after the order or decision from which the appeal is taken. Notice of the appeal shall be ordered by the Court in term time or by a Justice in vacation, and the appeal shall be tried and determined by the Cort without a jury in the manner and with the rights provided by law in other civil cases so heard. Coats may be awarded to the pre- vailing party by the Court as justice requires. (ecutlmied) Fare Three CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) f®rbinttnce, Be it ordaiud by the City CoasssU of the City ofBazyor, as follaws: Sac. $ Penalty. Any person who violates my order made under the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars (1100.00) plus costs and all Pines shall be recovered under complaint to the use of the City of Bangor. RECEIVED MI As -6 fK 2:51 CITY CLERK'S OFFICE CITY OF BANGOR, MAINE IN CITY COUNCIL Aug. la, 1961 - Tabled W=m 189-N :1111L rVID N (IIBE,) Amending Map. VII - Adopting Buildin; Exits Code M CITY COITNCIL Aug. 2E, 1961 Taken from table, Bee. 4.2 amended and, as emended, passed first reading by the following yea soul no vote: Counallors voting yes: Halley, Barry, Blaisdell, Brown, Higgina, Grose, Delano, Kelth, Whltteker. Tabled. �C IN CITY COUNCIL Tape. 11, 1963 second Taken from table, paaanno vo reading by theoci following votin yes : it vote, Councilors voting yea, Bailey, Barry, Blaisdell, Delano, Higgins, KeitM1, Whittaker. Copncil ora Brown and Gross absent. CITY CLERK �i�S "liter IN CITY COUNCIL Sept. 11, 1961 This Ordinance having received two readings on separate dates, being properly certified as correctly engrosses was finally PASSED by the following Yee and no Vote, Councilors voting yes, Bailey, Barry, Blaisdell, Delano, Higgins, Keith, Whittaker. Councilors Brown and Gross absent.'