Title
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance 20-2005 to Update the Fire Codes to the International Fire Code, 2021 Edition
Summary
Council may choose to suspend the rules for the immediate adoption of this ordinance.
Body
Whereas, the State of Alabama has updated and adopted the State Fire Code from the 2015 to the 2021 Edition of the International Fire Code, and
Whereas, the Foley Fire Department needs to upgrade the Fire Code Section of the City of Foley Technical Codes Adopted to the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code in order to be compatible with the State Fire Code, and
Whereas, the 2021 Edition of the International Fire Code can be viewed in its entirety at:
https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IFC2021P2
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Foley, Alabama at its meeting on the 17th day of January, 2023 as follows:
SECTION 1: The following code or portions of codes be, and the same are hereby, approved and adopted by reference, except for the changes and exclusions listed (if any):
Fire Codes:
(e) International Fire Code, 2021 Edition; and Appendices A, B, C, D, F, H and I; provided, however, the following sections are amended to read as follows and/or added to said code:
Section 110.4 Fire Code Violations amended to Section 112.4
Section 112.4 Failure to comply amended to Section 113.4
SECTION 2: Approves and adopts the following Fire Code upgrades:
International Fire Code: 2021 Codes
The 2021 International Fire Code revises the 2018 edition of the same document. It has gone through the following changes of note:
Requirements for additive manufacturing (3D printing) operations were provided.
· Flame propagation performance of permanently installed artificial combustible vegetation on roofs or in close proximity to buildings is now required to be verified when surpassing certain heights.
· High-rise retrofits. This change adds language in IFC Chapter 11 that requires existing high-rise buildings over 120’ to r...
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