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Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
CHAPTER 706 Abortions
CHAPTER 709 Adult Foster Care
CHAPTER 712 Amusements
CHAPTER 718 Fire Protection/Fighting Equipment
CHAPTER 724 Frozen Desserts
CHAPTER 730 Garage Sales
CHAPTER 748 Mechanical Amusement Devices
CHAPTER 750 Computerized Internet Sweepstakes Cafes
CHAPTER 760 Nursing and Boarding Care Homes
760.01 DEFINITIONS.
760.02 SUBMISSION OF PLANS.
760.03 CONSTRUCTION.
760.04 USE OF THIRD FLOOR.
760.05 USE OF ATTICS, BASEMENTS AND CELLARS.
760.06 OTHER OCCUPANCY.
760.07 LOCATION.
760.08 EGRESS FACILITIES REQUIRED.
760.09 EGRESS PASSAGEWAYS.
760.10 EXIT SIGNS.
760.11 ILLUMINATION OF EXIT PASSAGES.
760.12 STORAGE OF GASES.
760.13 FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS, STORAGE AND USE.
760.14 FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED.
760.15 FIRE HOSE AND STANDPIPES.
760.16 SPRINKLERS REQUIRED.
760.17 HAZARDOUS OCCUPANCIES.
760.18 LOCATION NEAR FLAMMABLE LIQUID STORAGE TANKS.
760.19 ATTENDANTS.
760.20 EVACUATION PLAN.
760.21 SMOKING. (REPEALED)
760.22 HOUSEKEEPING.
760.23 ELECTRICAL WIRING.
760.24 FIRE PROTECTION.
760.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 761 Private Investigators and Security Guards
CHAPTER 772 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
CHAPTER 780 Snow Plowing
CHAPTER 784 Taxicabs
CHAPTER 790 Fair Housing
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
760.10 EXIT SIGNS.
CHAPTER 760 Nursing and Boarding Care Homes
760.04 USE OF THIRD FLOOR.
   The third floor may be used for ambulatory patients and residents if such use of the third floor is approved by the State Fire Marshal after an inspection of the home has been made. (Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64. )
760.05 USE OF ATTICS, BASEMENTS AND CELLARS.
   No patient or resident shall be permitted to sleep in any attic, basement or cellar.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.06 OTHER OCCUPANCY.
   No nursing home or boarding care home shall contain an occupancy which is not within the immediate control of the management or which is not incident to the operation of the home. (Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.07 LOCATION.
   New nursing or boarding care homes shall be located in an area which is serviced by an approved organized fire department.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.08 EGRESS FACILITIES REQUIRED.
   (a)    Exits shall be located remote from each other, providing the best practical means of egress for all patients and residents in the event fire renders one exit impassable.
   (b)    Each story of every building used as a nursing home or boarding care home shall have at least two means of egress to the outside. Each patient or resident-occupied room shall have at least one doorway opening directly to the outside or to a corridor leading directly or by stairway to the outside, or an opening without a door into one adjacent room which leads to the outside in the same manner.
   (c)    Means of egress, in addition to the minimum of two required from each story under subsection (b) hereof, shall be required when the maximum possible occupancy exceeds sixty patients and residents. There shall be at least one additional means of egress for each thirty additional patients or residents, located to give adequate passage from all areas, each by separate stairways and/or passages to the outside. Exits shall be of such number and so arranged that it will not be necessary to travel more than 100 feet from the door of a patient-occupied room, and from every point in wards, day rooms, dormitories and dining rooms, to reach the nearest approved means of egress from that story.
   (d)    Exits shall be so arranged with regard to floors that there are no pockets or dead ends over ten feet in length in which occupants may be trapped.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.09 EGRESS PASSAGEWAYS.
   (a)    Corridors and passageways from patient or resident-occupied rooms leading to egress stairways and thence to the outside from the first story and to areas of refuge shall be not less than seventy-two inches in width in new buildings or additions to existing buildings, and not less than thirty-six inches in existing buildings, and shall be of such greater width as is necessary for free passage of beds with patients to the outside or to an approved area of refuge.
   (b)    Corridors and passageways considered as approved means of egress shall be at least eighty-four inches in height.
   (c)    Access to all interior and outside stairways, to fire escapes and other exits considered as approved means of egress shall be unobstructed and shall not be through a bathroom or kitchen or a room used for any other purpose that may obstruct free passage, nor shall access be veiled from open view by ornamentation, curtains or other appurtenances.
   (d)    Passageways from inside stairways to the outside shall have the same fire-resistance quality as required of the connecting stairways.
   (e)    All egress passageways shall at all times provide unobstructed and safe passage to a public street, alley or to a suitable area of refuge.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.10 EXIT SIGNS.
   (a)    Exit signs or lights are required only when more than twelve persons are housed.
   (b)    Signs bearing the word "exit" shall be placed at each egress doorway, except at doors of patient or resident-occupied rooms entering upon common use corridors or passageways, and shall be so installed as to be legible from the direction of travel thereto. Where such doorways and signs are not readily discernible from patient or resident-occupied room doorways, an adequate number of additional signs shall be provided bearing the term "exit" with an arrow pointing in the direction of such exit.
   (c)    Exit signs shall bear letters at least four and one-half inches in height with strokes not less than three-fourths of an inch in width.
   (d)    All exit and directional signs shall be maintained clearly legible by electric illumination or other adequate means when natural light fails.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.11 ILLUMINATION OF EXIT PASSAGES.
   Adequate facilities shall be provided for the lighting of all corridors, stairways and egress passages at all times.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.12 STORAGE OF GASES.
   (a)    Storage rooms for combustible anesthetics shall be constructed of an assembly of building materials with a minimum fire-resistant rating of one hour, and shall not communicate directly with an operating, delivery, anesthesia or furnace room, or any room containing an open flame or spark-producing device.
   (b)    Oxygen and nitrous oxide shall not be stored in the same room with any combustible anesthetic agent such as cyclopropane, divinyl ether, ethyl chloride, ethyl ether, ethylene, vinethlene or vinyl ether.
   (c)    Provision shall be made for racks or fastening to protect cylinders from accidental damage or dislocation.
   (d)    No open flame, smoking or spark-producing device shall be permitted within a room in which combustible anesthetics or compressed oxygen is used or stored.
   (e)    All rooms in which combustible anesthetics are stored shall be individually ventilated to the exterior.
   (f)    Oxygen and nitrous oxide of a total capacity in excess of 1500 cubic feet, when located within the building shall be enclosed in a separate rooms or enclosure within a room with a minimum fire-resistant rating of at least one hour. The manifold enclosure shall be individually vented to the outside.
   (g)    Oxygen and nitrous oxide of a total capacity of less than 1500 cubic feet shall be stored in rooms or in an enclosure within a room. The rooms or enclosures do not have to be vented to the outside but the doors to such rooms or enclosures shall be provided with 1ouvers at the top and bottom.
   (h)    Rooms or enclosures for combustible or nonflammable gases shall not be used for storage purposes other than for the cylinders containing the gases. Storage of empty cylinders pending their removal is permissible.
   (i)    Electrical wall fixtures in oxygen and nitrous oxide storage rooms shall be installed in fixed locations not less than five feet above the floor to avoid physical damage.
   (j)    In storage locations for combustible anesthetics the electrical wiring and equipment shall comply with the explosion-proof requirements of the 1968 edition of the National Electrical Code.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.13 FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS, STORAGE AND USE.
   (a)    Flammable liquids shall be stored in suitable buildings, rooms or compartments used for no other purpose and shall be constructed of building materials having a minimum fire- resistant rating of one hour.
   (b)    Flammable liquids shall be stored in and used from approved metal safety cans or containers.
   (c)    Benzine, benzol, gasoline, naphtha and their compounds shall not be stored in any basement, cellar or pit.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.14 FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED.
   (a)    All nursing or boarding care homes shall be provided with approved fire extinguishers for each 2500 square feet of floor area or fractional part thereof, adequate for the conditions involved and suitably located.
   (b)    All rooms and enclosures containing heating and cooking appliances shall be provided with approved fire extinguishing equipment. Such fire extinguishers shall not be placed in close proximity to fire units or in any other position affecting their availability in the event of a fire.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.15 FIRE HOSE AND STANDPIPES.
   (a)    Fire hose and standpipes shall be required on all new construction over two stories high. All fire hose couplings shall conform to the size, thread and pattern adapted to the standpipe installed.
   (b)    The number of standpipes shall be such that all parts of every floor area can be reached within thirty feet by a nozzle attached to 100 feet of hose connected to a standpipe.
   (c)    Standpipes shall be so located that they are protected against mechanical and fire damage with outlets within stairway enclosures as near the stairway as possible or outside or immediately inside of the exterior walls within one foot of a fire tower or exterior stairway or fire escape.
   (d)    Standpipes shall be installed in accordance with approved standards and maintained in readiness for use at all times.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.16 SPRINKLERS REQUIRED.
   (a)    Nursing homes or boarding care homes which are occupied by bed patients or by ambulatory patients and residents shall be protected throughout, including stairways, closets, basements, cellars, attics, storage rooms and chutes, by a system of automatic sprinklers installed and maintained in accordance with approved standards.
   (b)   Water-flow alarms shall be provided on all sprinkler installations. Central station water-flow alarm service is desirable but central station water-flow alarm service does not necessarily waive the local alarm requirement.
   (c)    When a sprinkler system is installed plans shall be submitted to the State Fire Marshal for approval before installation is made.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.17 HAZARDOUS OCCUPANCIES.
   No motor vehicle or other device which may cause or communicate fire, which vehicle or device is not necessary for patient or resident treatment or care, shall be stored within a nursing home or boarding care home. All such devices and materials necessary for use within the building shall be used with reasonable care for safety from fire and shall be used by trained personnel. (Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.18 LOCATION NEAR FLAMMABLE LIQUID STORAGE TANKS.
   No nursing home or boarding care home shall be located within eighty-five feet of underground or 300 feet of aboveground storage tanks containing flammable liquids used in connection with a service station, garage, bulk plant or marine terminal or bottling plant of a liquefied petroleum gas installation.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)
760.19 ATTENDANTS.
   (a)    There shall be an attendant or attendants on duty or on call at all times.
   (b)    The number of attendants required shall be sufficient to perform the duties required under the evacuation plan.
   (c)    Attendants as required herein shall be at least eighteen years of age and capable of performing the required duties of evacuation. No person other than the management or an employee of the management shall be considered as an attendant.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)

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• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
• ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
• ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
• ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
• REPEALED)
• Ord. 45-64
• ord "exit" shall be placed at each egress doorway, except at doors of patient or resident-occupied rooms entering upon common use corridors or passageways, and shall be so installed as
• ordance with approved standards and maintained in readiness for use at all times
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