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Ordinance No. 398
AN ORDINANCE ADDING ARTICLE XX, ENTITLED "FIRE DEPARTMENT"r
TO CHAPTER 2 AND REPEALING SUBSECTION {b) OF SECTION 26-3 .2
OF THE BUTTE COUNTY CODE
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte ordains as
follows:
Section 1. Article XX is added to Chapter 2 of the Butte County Code,
to read as follows:
"ARTICLE XX. FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Section 2-174. Butte County Fire Departamean.t. The California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shall serve as the Butte
County Fire Department, as specified in the existing or any extended
or amended "Cooperative Fire Protection Services Agreement For Local
Agencies" entered into by and between the State of California and
Butte Couxa.ty, referred to hereafter as the "Agreement".
.Section 2-171. County Fire Chief. The Unit Chief of the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Butte Unit, is appointed
as the County Fire Warden and as the County Fire Chief. Far the
purposes of this Code, the term "Fire Chief" shall include and shall.
mean both "County Fire Warden" and "County Fire Chief" and shall
include his or her duly authorized representatives.
Section 2-172. Duties of Fire Chief. (a}The duties of the Fire Chief
shall be all the duties of the County Fire Warden and County Fire
Chief, as specified in the Agreement and applicable law, including,
but not limited to, the responsibility to enforce the building
standards adopted by the state fire marshal and published in the
California Building Standards Code relating to fire and panic safety
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and other regulations of the state fire marshal.
(b) Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 13146, the Fire
Chief is hereby designated with the authority, within the County of
Butte, to enforce the building standards relating to fire and panic
safety and other regulations of the state fire marshal as they relate
to R--3 dwellings , rr
Section 2. Re eal of Section 26-3.2 b Subsection (b) of Section
26-3.2, entitled °Building Official Designated to Enforce Building
Standards", of the Butte County Code is repealed.
Section 3., Severability.
If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof to
an.y person or circumstances is for any reason held to be ir~.valid by
a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed
'.severable, and the invalidity thereof shall not affect the remaining
(provisions or other applications of the Ordinance which can be given
effect without the invalid provision or application thereof.
Section 4. Effective Date and Publication. This Ordinance shall take
effect thirty (30) days after the date of its passage. The Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors is authorized axa.d directed to publish this
ordinance before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its
passage. This Ordinance shall be published once, with the names of
the members of the Board of Supervisors voting for and against it, in
the Chico Enterprise a newspaper of general circulation published in
the County of Butte, State of California.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Butte, State of California, on the 23rd day of March
1999, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Beeler, Houx, Josi.assen, Davis and Chair Dolan
NOES : None
ABSENT : None
NOT VOTING : None .~~
E DO~AN, Chair of the
to County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
JOHN S. BLACKLOCK
Officer and Cler he Board
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