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ORDINANCE NO.246
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING BUILDING EXITS IN
THE TOWN OF ESTES PARK,COLORADO.ADOPTING
BY REFERENCE THE BUILDING EXITS CODE FOR LIFE
SAFETY FROM FTh.E NINETEENTH EDITION,1963.
AMENDING SECTION 11.3 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
OF THE TOWN OF ESTES PARK,COLORADO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
TOWN OF ESTES PARK,COLORADO:
Section 1.That the Building Exits Code for Life
Safety from Fire,Nineteenth Edition,NFPA No.101-1963,
issued by the National Fire Protection Association International
of 60 Batterymarch Street,Boston 10,Massachusetts,at least
three (3)copies of which have been certified as true copies by
the Mayor and Clerk of the Town of Estes Park,Colorado and
which are now on file in the office of the Town Clerk,is hereby
enacted and adopted by reference and incorporated herein and
made a part of the Municipal Code of the Town of Estes Park,
Colorado as hereinafter provided.The said Building Exits Code
covers the construction,arrangement and use of exit facilities
necessary to provide safe means of egress from structures,together
with such features of construction and protection as have bearing
on safety of egress.The said Code covers both new and existing
construction.In various sections of the Code there are specific
provisions for existing structures differing from those for new
construction.Except as so far as specifically thus provided,
all requirements of the Code apply to existing as well as to new
construction.
Section 2.That Section 11.3 of the Municipal Code of
the Town of Estes Park,Colorado be and the same is hereby
amended to read:
§11.3 Building Exits Code.No building shall be constructed,
erected,enlarged,altered,or used within the Town of Estes Park
unless the exits thereof conform with the requirements of the
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Building Exits Code for Lire Safety from Fire,Nineteenth
Edition,NFPA No.101-1963,issued and published by National
Fire Protection Association International,60 Batterymarch
Street,Boston 10,Massachusetts,which Building Exits Code,is
incorporated herein and adopted by reference.
Section 3.The Board of Trustees herewith finds,
determines and designates that this Ordinance is necessary
for the iumiediate preservation of the public health and
safety for the regulation of construction,arrangement,and
use of exit facilities necessary to provide safe means of
egress from public structures,together with such features of
construction and protection as have bearing on safety of egress
affects the public health and safety,and whereas in the opinion
of the Board of Trustees an emergency exists,this Ordinance
shall take effect and be in force five f)days after its final
passage,adoption and publication.
The above Ordinance was passed on second reading and
adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Estes Park,
Colorado at its regular meeting held on Tuesday ,November 12
1963.
Signed and approved this 12th day of November ,1963.
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