Chapter 11 - Building Code
Division 5 - Fire Code

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SEC. 11.5-1 – FIRE CODE

1. Incorporation by Reference. There is hereby adopted by the Town of Normal for the purpose of establishing rules, standards, regulations and procedures for the location, construction, maintenance, alteration, use and occupancy of buildings, property and structures with regard to fire safety and the materials and equipment located within such buildings or structures and on property, a Fire Code known as the International Fire Code 2006 published by the International Code Council (which said Code as so amended is hereinafter referred to as the “IFC”) not less than one copy of which Code with the specified additions, deletions, insertions, modifications and amendments, has been for more than thirty (30) days prior to the adoption of the Ordinance incorporating said Code by reference and is now filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Normal. As editions and amendments to the IFC are officially adopted and published by the International Code Council, such new editions and amendments are hereby adopted by the Town of Normal without further action by the Town Council and such new editions and amendments shall be effective when published by the International Code Council except for those sections which are specifically modified, amended or deleted by this Division of the Municipal Code of the Town of Normal. The provisions of said Code are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length and the provisions thereof as added, deleted, inserted, modified and amended by Paragraph C of this Section shall be controlling in regard to all buildings, materials, equipment, property and structures within the corporate limits of the Town.
    
2. Nothing in the adoption of this International Fire Code is intended to abrogate or modify provisions of the Fire Prevention Code adopted at SEC. 6.4-1 of the Municipal Code of the Town of Normal. Whenever provisions of this International Fire Code conflict or are different from the Fire Prevention Code or any other Code adopted by the Town of Normal, the stricter Code Sections shall prevail.
    
3. Additions, Deletions, Insertions, Modifications and Amendments to the International Fire Code.
    
   1. Delete Chapter 1 in its entirety and substitute therefore Chapter 1 of the International Building Code as adopted and amended by the Town of Normal at SEC. 11.4-2 of the Municipal Code of the Town of Normal as the administration chapter of this Fire Code. All provisions of the International Fire Code shall be enforced in the manner provided in the International Building Code, including penalties for violation. Wherever in the International Fire Code reference is made to the “Fire Official” the term “Building Official” as used in the International Building Code shall be substituted.
       
   2. Delete Appendix A – Board of Appeals, Appendix C – Fire Hydrant Locations and Distributions and Appendix D – Fire Apparatus Access Roads.
       
   3. Adopt as part of the International Fire Code Appendix B – Fire-Flow Requirements for Buildings, Appendix E – Hazard Categories, Appendix F Hazard Ranking and Appendix G Cryogenic Fluids – Weight and Volume Equivalents.

Entire Division 5 Amended 9/15/03 by Ord. No. 4890