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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 3198 TOV~SH~ OF P~CKER~NG 31 q g 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 -2- 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 -3- 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. Reeve / '