HomeMy WebLinkAbout029 - 09/25/1958 - ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE (1958 EDITION) A
ORDINANCE NO �& _ 1958
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE UNIFORM BUILDING
CODE AS PREPARED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
BUILDING OFFICIALS BEING PARTICULARLY THE 1958 EDITION
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...""`YXW U0 BEING AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE ERECTION
CONSTRUCTION, ENLARGEMENT ALTERATION REPAIR MOVING,
REMOVAL CONVERSION DEMOLITION, OCCUPANCY EQUIPMENT,
USE, HEIGHT, AREA, AND MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS OR
STRUCTURES IN THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS PROVIDING FOR
THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND COLLECTION OF FEES THEREFOR
DECLARING AND ESTABLISHING FIRE DISTRICTS PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section IA Adoption of Uniform Building Code
There is hereby adopted by the City Council of the City of
Fort Collins, for the purpose of regulating the erection, construction,
enlargement, alteration repair moving, removal, conversion demolition
occupancy equipment use height area, and maintenance of buildings
or structures in the city of Fort Collins, that certain code known as
the Uniform Building Code as prepared by the International Conference
of Building Officials being particularly the 1958 edition thereof
and the whole thereof save and except such portions as are hereafter
deleted, modified, or amended (by Section 3A of this ordinance), of
which code not less than three copies have been and now are filed in
the office of the City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, and the same
are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length
herein and from the date on which this ordinance shall take effect
the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the
City of Fort Collins
Section 2A Definitions
Wherever the word 'Municipality or 'City is used in the
Uniform Building Code, it shall be held to mean the City of Fort Collins
Section 3A Amendments Made in the Uniform Building Code
The Uniform Building Code is amended and changed in the
following respects
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a The following section of the Uniform Building Code contains
a penalty clause which is herewith set forth in full as required by
Section 139-34-4 Colorado Revised State 1953 to-wit
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Section 205 It shall be unlawful for any person firm,
or corporation to erect construct, enlarge, alter repair move, improve,
remove, convert or demolish equip, use occupy, or maintain any
building or structure in the city, or cause the same to be done, contrary
to or in violation of any of the provisions of this Code
Any person firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this Code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each
and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of
the provisions of this Code is committed, continued or permitted and
upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $300 or by imprisonment for not more than
90 days
b Section 6003 and Section 6004 are herewith deleted
from said code, and the following sections are substituted therefor
'Section 6003 All former ordinances or parts thereof
conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance or
of the code hereby adopted are hereby repealed
' Section 6004 This ordinance shall take effect and be
enforced from and after its approval as required by law
Section 4A Validity
The Council of the City of Fort Collins hereby declares that
should any section paragraph sentence or word of this ordinance or
of the code hereby adopted be declared for/any reason to be invalid
it is the intent of the City Council that it would have passed all
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other portions of this ordinance independent04 the elimination
herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid
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Section 5A
Copies of the Uniform Building Code shall be available in the
office of the City Clerk for distribution and sale to the public at a
price not to exceed the actual cost thereof to the city except that
copies shall be furnished by the City of Fort Collins to contractors
at the time they obtain an unlimited or limited contractor's license
Introduced considered favorably on first reading and
ordered published this 28th day of August A D 1958 and to be
presented for final passage on the 25th day of September A D 1958
ATTEST Laae-v� 5w�
Mayor
City Jerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 25th day of
September A D 1958
ATTEST
Mayor
City Clerk
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