HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2917 ORDINANCE NO. 2917
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE BY
REPEALING CHAPTER 2. 40 AND ADDING THERETO NEW
CHAPTER 2. 40 ENTITLED "FIRE DEPARTMENT"
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows :
SECTION 1 . Chapter 2. 40 of the Huntington Beach
Municipal Code is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is
hereby amended by adding new Chapter 2. 40 entitled Fire Department
to read as follows :
Chapter2_40
FIRE_DEPARTMENT
Sections •
2. 40. 010 Established.
2. 40. 020 Mission.
2. 40. 030 Function.
2. 40. 040 Chief --Appointment .
2. 40. 050 Chief--Ex Officio Duties .
2. 40. 010_Established . A Fire Department is established for
the City. (Ord. 1879, 11 /73) .
2. 40, 020_Mission. The primary mission of the Fire
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Department is to provide a range of programs designed to protect
the lives and property of the inhabitants of the City from the
adverse effects of fires, sudden medical emergencies or exposure
to dangerous conditions created by either man or nature.
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2 .40. 030 Function. The Fire Department shall be under the
management of the Fire Chief . The functions of the Fire
Department shall include:
a. The extinguishment of structural, brush and other types
of fires.
b. The enforcement of laws concerned with fire prevention.
C . The abatement of any hazard or nuisance caused by any ,
substance that presents a threat to the public because
of toxicity, radioactivity, flammability or other
characteristic dangerous to the public health or
environment .
d . Such other functions as may be delegated by the City
Administrator or the City Council .
2 .40 . 040 Chief--Appointment . The Fire Chief shall be
appointed as provided in the Charter . (Ord. 1879, 11/73; Ord.
427, 7/39 )
2 .40 . 050 Chief--Ex Officio Duties. The Fire Chief shall be
ex officio Fire Marshal with police power .
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SECTION 2 . This ordinance shall take effect thirty
days after its passage .
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 2nd
day of November , 1987
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
1
City Clerk pity tt ney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Administrator Fire Chief
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Ord. No. 2917
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA. M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 19th day of October
19 87 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 2nd day of November 19 87 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Winchell, Mays, Finley, Kelly, Erskine, Green,
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Bannister
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
1, Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the Ci
ty t
yo
Huntington Beach and ex•officio Clerk of the City
Council, do hereby certify that a syncpsis of this
ordinance has been puWisncd in the Huntington
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Deputy City Clerk