HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2682ORDINANCE NO. 2682
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING TITLE 15 OF THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING THERETO
CHAPTER 15.42 RELATIVE TO DWELLING UNIT
LOCATION IDENTIFICATION IN MULTIPLE DWELLING
UNIT COMPLEXES.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 15.42 is hereby added to Title
Bakersfield Municipal Code to read as follows:
Sections:
15.42.010
15.42.020
15.42.030
15.42.040
15.42.050
Chapter 15.42
DWELLING UNIT LOCATION IDENTIFICATION
IN MULTIPLE DWELLING UNIT COMPLEXES
Purpose.
Definitions.
General Provisions.
Enforcement and Penalties.
Severability.
15 of the
15.42.010 Purpose. This Chapter is adopted to promote and
protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, con-
venience and general welfare, and for the accomplishment thereof
is adopted, among other purposes, for the particularly specified
purpose of requiring property owners to install and maintain
dwelling unit location identification signage which will assist
emergency personnel - e.g. fire suppression, police, medical
services - in locating and responding to calls for emergency
services.
15.42.020 Definitions. As used in this Chapter, the following
terms shall have the meaning indicated:
(a) "Dwelling Unit" means a building or portion thereof
containing but one (1) kitchen, designed and/or used to house not
more than one (1) housekeeping unit.
(b) "Multiple Dwelling Unit Complex" means a building or
building(s) developed as a single project, whether simultaneously
or in stages, containing more than four (4) dwelling units,
specifically including, but not limited to, apartment complexes
and residential condominium complexes, but not including hotels
or motels containing efficiency units.
(c) "Site plan" means a schematic diagram of a multiple
dwelling unit complex, drawn to scale, showing all buildings in
the complex, all streets and walkways within the complex, the
locations of fire hydrants within the complex, the adjacent
public streets and the dwelling unit designations (whether by
number or letter) within each building in the complex.
15.42.030 General Provisions.
(a) The City Building Director shall not permit occupancy
of any multiple dwelling unit
therein, unless he finds that
requirements:
(1) Each dwelling unit
letter or number at least four (4)
complex, or for any dwelling unit
the complex satisfies the following
is marked by a distinguishing
inches in height and contrasting
in color with the background, mounted on the exterior of the unit
within twenty-four (24) inches of the front door to the unit and
of any entry way leading to the front door, and visible from a
distance of not less than twenty (20) feet; and
(2) Each separate building within a complex is identified
by numbers or letters at least six (6) inches in height and con-
trasting in color with the background, mounted on the exterior of
the building, and visible from each walkway approach to the
building; and
(3) If the complex contains twenty (20) or more dwelling
units, site plans shall be displayed on the premises as directed
by the Building Director. The Building Director shall consult
with the Fire Chief and the Police Chief in determining the
number and location of site plan displays required. Not less
than one (1) nor more than three (3) site plan displays shall be
required for each fifty (50) dwelling units, or fraction thereof,
in the complex. A site plan shall be submitted for approval at
the time of application for a building permit for each multiple
dwelling unit complex as to which no building permit has been
issued as of the effective date of the ordinance enacting this
Chapter.
(b) The owners of any multiple dwelling unit complex occupied
as of the effective date of the ordinance enacting this Chapter
shall bring the complex into compliance with the requirements set
forth in subsections (a)(1), (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section
within one (1) year of such effective date. For purposes hereof,
the property owners' association and each owner of a dwelling
unit within a condominium project shall be jointly and severally
responsible for the satisfaction of such requirements.
(c) The owners of any multiple dwelling unit complex shall
be responsible for upkeep of the site plan display and of the
unit and building identifications required by this Chapter,
including protection from deterioration by the elements and
removal of landscaping interfering with full visibility. Within
any condominium project, such upkeep shall be the joint and
several responsibility of the property owners' association and
each owner of a dwelling unit within such project.
(d) Upon approval of a site plan by the Building Director,
a copy of such plan shall be filed and maintained at the police/
fire communications center.
(e) The provisions of
addition to those set forth
this Chapter specify requirements in
in Chapter 15.52. Should any pro-
vision of this Chapter conflict with any provision of Chapter
15.52, the provisions of this Chapter shall prevail.
15.42.040 Enforcement and Penalty.
(a) Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the Building
Director to enforce this Chapter. All departments, officials and
public employees of the City of Bakersfield vested with the duty
or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the
provisions of this Chapter and shall issue no permit or license
for uses, buildings or purposes in conflict with the provisions
of this Chapter, and any such permit or license issued in conflict
with the provisions of this Chapter shall be null and void.
The provisions of this Chapter shall be interpreted and
administered by the Building Director whose inspectors or authorized
representatives shall have the right to enter upon any premises
affected by this chapter for purposes of inspection.
Any building or structure erected or maintained, or any use
of property, contrary to the provisions of this Chapter, shall be
and the same is hereby declared to be unlawful and a public
nuisance, and the City Attorney may immediately commence actions
and proceedings for the abatement, removal and enjoinment thereof
in the manner provided by law and shall take such other steps and
shall apply to any court as may have jurisdiction to grant such
relief as will abate or remove such building, structure or use
and restrain and enjoin any person, firm or corporation from
erecting or maintaining such building or structure or using any
property contrary to the provisions of
This Chapter may also be enforced
of the Superior Court upon the suit of
occupant of any real property affected
this Chapter.
by injunction issued out
the City or the owner or
by such violation or
prospective violation. This method of enforcement shall be
cumulative and in no way affect the penal provisions hereof.
(b) Penalty for Violations. Any person, firm or corporation,
whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating any
provision of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not
more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in
the county jail for a period of no more than six (6) months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that violation of
this Chapter continues shall be considered a separate offense.
15.42.050 Severability. If any section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter is for any reason held
to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Chapter. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have passed this Chapter, and each
section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, ir-
respective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconsti-
tutional.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the
City Charter provisions and shall become effective thirty (30)
days from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 6th day of January , 1982, by
the following vote:
AY?S: COUN' ILMEN: BARTON, CHRISTENSEN, M£AflS, PAYNE, RATIY, ROCKOFF, STRONG
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CITY Officio Clerk of
Council of the City of Bakersfield
the
AP~Rov-~ this 6t___~h day of January , 1982
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MAYOR o~he City of~akersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CItY ATTOR~ 5f the ~ity 6f
Bakersfield
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Aff a of r uau es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, }
County of Kern ss.
PHILIP KELMAR, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ...................J.....a..~..u...~..r..y_...~.:. .........................................................................., 19..~..~.... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ....................~..a....n....u...?=.r..y..._..~.~ ..........................................19....~..2..., which ordinance
was numbered_......_~.~.~.~ ........................New Series, and entitled:
An Ordinance of the Council of the City of
Bakersfield amending Title 15 of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code by adding thereto
Chapter 15.42 relative to Dwelling Unit
location ~ndentification in Multiple Dwelling
Unit Complexes.
cit~Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
~ January 1982
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