Title XV BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION

Chapters 15.04 Fire Zone

Chapter 15.04 Fire Zone Sections

15.04.010 Purpose

15.04.020 Zone established

15.04.030 Building requirements

15.04.040 Abatement of nuisance

15.04.050 Violation-penalty

15.04.010 Purpose . The purpose of this chapter is to create and establish a fire limit district for the protection of life, limb, property, health, safety and welfare and to prescribe the character of buildings to be erected within the fire limit district along with remedies for violations.

15.04.020 Zone established . A zone, known as the fire limits zone of the city, is established to comprise and include all of the following: The Courthouse Square and all of Blocks Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven of the Original Town of Primghar, Iowa.

15.04.030 Building requirements . It is unlawful for any person or persons, company or corporation to erect, construct, build, place, or to be engaged with as owner, agent, employee or contractor in erecting, constructing, building or placing within said fire limits zone any building, construction or addition to any such building or construction that is not made or built with the outer walls thereof composed of brick, stone, cement block, stone, hollow tide block, poured cement, metal, or other noncombustible materials, and with the roof and cornices thereof covered with metal or other noncombustible materials. All persons, companies or corporations are forbidden within said fire limits zone from erecting, constructing, building, placing or causing the same to be done to any building or edifice the outer walls, cornices and roofs of which are not composed and built of noncombustible materials as set forth in this section.

15.04.040 Abatement of nuisance . Any building, edifice, or construction erected, constructed, built or placed in violation of the provisions of this chapter is a nuisance and may be abated by destruction thereof or the removal of the same from the fire limits zone. The costs and expenses of the abatement or removal may be collected from the parties causing the nuisance by civil action or an action may be begun in the name of the city to prevent the contemplated violation of the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that before any legal injunction action is started, a written notice of not less than 24 hours shall be given to the owner, his agent, or contractor in charge of such property warning him that such injunction will be sought if such contemplated violation of this chapter is not relinquished and abandoned.

15.04.050 Violation-penalty . The penalty for violation of this chapter shall be the same as is prescribed in Section 1.12.010.