§ 10-1. Fire prevention code adopted.

(a)

The provisions, except as modified in this article, of the 2006 International Fire Code including Appendices A—D, three (3) copies of which are on file in the office of the city clerk, are hereby incorporated in this chapter and made a part hereof as though set forth fully herein and are hereby adopted as the official fire code of the city.

(b)

Wherever the word "municipality" is used in the code adopted by this article, it shall be construed to mean this city.

(c)

The fire prevention code adopted by this article shall be administered and enforced by the fire chief.

(d)

General penalty.

(1)

Whenever in the code adopted in this section, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him/her or it by said code, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or misdemeanor or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, upon conviction of a violation of any such provision of the code adopted herein or of any such ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the city or county jail not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a statute of the state, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such offense, except that imprisonments may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail.

(2)

Every day any violation of the code adopted herein or any other ordinance or any such rule, regulation, notice or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

(3)

Whenever any act is prohibited by the code adopted herein, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing, securing, aiding, or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by this code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.

(e)

Section 307.1—307.5 of the Fire Prevention Code are stricken.

(Code 1978, § 510.010; Ord. No. 6120, § I, 3-8-88; Ord. No. 98-16, §§ I—III, 3-10-98; Ord. No. 12-33, § II, 8-14-2012; Ord. No. 14-05, § I, 2-11-2014)

State law reference

Adoption by reference, RSMo 67.280.

Cross reference

Buildings and building regulations, Ch. 6.