HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 3198 TOV~SH~ OF P~CKER~NG
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Being a By-law for preventing fires, the
spread of fires, and for the preservation
of life.
WHEREAS Section 31 (1) 22 of The Planning Act,
R.S.O. 1960, as amended by Subsection (3) of Section 7,
Chapter 104, The Statutes of Ontario, 1961-1962, empowers
Municipalities to pass by-laws for adopting in whole or in
part any code or standards adopted, made or sponsored by the
Canadian Standards Association, the Canadian Goverrument
Specifications Board, the American Society for Testing Materials
or any other such body and approved by the National Research
Council (Canada}~
AND WHEREAS the Associate Cormmittee on National
Fire Codes of the National Research Council has issued a
code entitled the National Fire Code of Canada, 1963;
AND WHEREAS it is deemed advisable to adopt in whole
the said National Fire Code of Canada, 1963~
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. The National Fire Code of Canada, 1963, with the
amendments hereinafter set out, is hereby adopted in whole,
and is hereby declared to be in force in the Township of
Picketing, to the intent that the provisions of the said Code
shall regulate and govern all such matters and things as are
in the said National Fire Code more particularly specified.
2. Section 1. 3. 1. 3. (1) (b) is amended to read "know-
ingly states anything falso'in any information delivered or
furniuhed' to the inspector, and every'person who obstructs or
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interferes with an inspector who is carrying out an inspection
under this Code is guilty of an offence and liable on summary
conviction to a penalty not exceeding the sum of $300.00,
exclusive of costs."
3. Section 1. 3. 3. 1. is amended to read "Any person
against whom an order has been made under this Code may,
before the expiration of thirty days after the e~er wss made,
appeal to the provincial fire mmrshal (commissioner) who shall
review and shall amend, revoke or confirm the order appealed
against or substitute another order which the inspector could
have made for the order appealed against."
4, Section 1. 3. 3. 2. is amended to read "Where an
order has been reviewed under sentence 1. 3. 3, 1., any person
who is interested in the order and is dissatisfied with the
review or refusal to review may° within fifteen days after
the decision has been made known appeal to a judge of the
County Court to review the order or the decision of the
provincial fire marshal (commissioner)."
5. Section 1. 3, 3. 4. (1) (a) is amended to read
"file with the court a bond of an amount not less than one
hundred dollars, to be fixed by the judge, with one or more
sureties approved by the judge conditioned to pay all of the
costs of the appeal if judgement is given against him, or"
6. Section 1. 3. 3. 4. (i) (b) is amended to read
"deposit with the court an amount not less than one hundred
dollars to be fixed by the judge to cover the costs of the
appeal."
7. Section 1. 3. 4. 1. is amended to read "Every person
who contravenes or fails to comply with this Cede or who fails
to carry out an order made under this Code or any condition
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attached to a permit or to which a permit is subject is guilty
of an offence and where no other penalty is provided under
this Code is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not
more than three hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 21 days or to both such fine and imprisonment
and in default of payment of the fine to imprisonment for an
additional term not exceeding 10 days,"
8. Section 1, 3. 4. 2. is amended to read "Where a person
fails or refuses to carry out an order made under this Code
or acts contrary to such an order or fails or refuses to
comply with any condition attached to a permit or to which a
permit is subject, the Chief of the Fire Department may apply
to the Supreme Court of Ontario or to a judge thereof and on
hearing the application the court or judge thereof may grant
an injunction to restrain that person from proceeding with
the work in respect of which the order was made or the permit
was issued and the court or judge may make such further order
as the court or judge deem fit."
9. Section 1. 4, 1. 3. (1) (c) is amended to read
"two copies of the specifications and scale drawings of the
building with respect to the use and occupancy showing".
P~EAD a FIRST, SECOND and THIRD time and passed in
open Council this /~day of ~r~-,w,~ A. D. 1966.
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