WS - E - Proposed Ordinance - 2021 International Fire Code with Amendments

calendar days of the installation/ inspection date. Reports submitted after 30 calendar days may incur late fees. Section 901.7 Add a sentence to the end of the section to read as follows: A person assigned to fire watch must walk through the building at least once every 30 minutes checking for fire or smoke. A fire watch must be continued until the fire alarm system and/ or fire protection system has been restored to normal operating condition or the building has been evacuated. A competent adult familiar with the building must conduct the fire watch, and if a fire is discovered shall call 911 and immediately evacuate the building. Section 903.3.5.1 Delete this section and replace with: A single domestic and automatic fire sprinkler system water supply. If the city water provider requires a single domestic and automatic fire sprinkler system supply, then the water supply shall be split outside of the building and shall have a shutoff provided for the domestic service after the split outside of the building. The total domestic demand is required to be added to the fire sprinkler demand. Section 903.3.5.2 Delete this section and replace with: Water supply safety margin: The fire sprinkler system hydraulically calculated demand per NFPA 13 or NFPA 13R including required hose stream allowances, and domestic water demand if required by section 903.3.5.1 must be a minimum 10%, but not less than 5 psi below the water supply flow test curve. The flow test must have been conducted within 90 days of fire sprinkler plan submittal to the city (and third- party reviewer where applicable). The base of riser psi at the time of acceptance test shall also be 10% but not less than 5 psi above the most demanded hydraulically calculated pressure. Section 903.4.2 Delete the section and replace with: Alarms. An approved weatherproof horn/strobe device shall be mounted directly above the fire department connection between seven (7) and ten (10) feet in height above grade. The water-flow alarm device shall be activated by water flow equivalent to the flow of a single sprinkler of the smallest orifice size installed in the system. Approved and supervised audible visual notification appliances shall be installed throughout each level of the interior of the building as required by the Fire Code Official and NFPA 72. Where a fire alarm system is installed, actuation of the automatic sprinkler system shall actuate the building fire alarm system. Section 903.5.1 Add a new section to read as follows: Inspector’s test valve. An inspector’s test valve is required at the most remote location in each fire sprinkler system or tenant/floor control valve space, for use at the acceptance test and to remove air from the system after maintenance work is done on the system. Section 903.5.2 Add a new section to read as follows: Forward Flow Testing. Automatic sprinkler systems shall be provided with an external outlet to perform forward flow testing as required by NFPA 25. Outlet shall be supervised, signed as testing, and have male threads. Section 903.7 Add a new section to read as follows: Zones. Automatic sprinkler system zones shall not exceed the area permitted by NFPA 13 or NFPA 13R and shall provide a sprinkler control valve and water flow device for each normally occupied floor or normally occupied space in a multi-tenant building. Except by