§ 16.16.010. Adoption of California Fire Code and International Fire Code.  


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  • The Marin County Board of Supervisors hereby adopts, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, the following:

    (1)

    The 2016 California Fire Code, which consists of certain portions of the 2015 edition of the International Fire Code as amended by the California Building Standards Commission, including:

    a.

    Appendix B Fire Flow Requirements for Buildings, the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereafter deleted, modified or amended by Section 16.16.040 of this chapter;

    b.

    Appendix C Fire Hydrant Locations and Distribution;

    c.

    Appendix F Hazard Ranking;

    d.

    Appendix H Hazardous Materials Management Plans and Hazardous Materials Inventory Statements;

    e.

    Appendix N Temporary Haunted Houses, Ghost Walks and Similar Amusement Uses.

    (2)

    The International Fire Code published by the International Fire Code Council, Inc., 2015 edition hereof and the whole thereof, save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended by Section 16.16.040 of this chapter.

    (3)

    Appendix A of the 2015 edition of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code save and except such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified or amended by Section 16.16.040 of this chapter.

    Not less than one copy of the codes and standards hereby adopted is filed in the office of the Fire Marshal of the Marin County Fire Department and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this chapter shall take effect, and the provisions thereof shall be controlling within the limits of the Marin County Fire Department.

( Ord. No. 3659 , § IV.B, 2016)