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A. The Fire Chief or designee shall determine whether the applicant has made sufficient provisions for:

1. Adequate aisles, seats, platforms and poles; platforms and poles shall be jointly inspected by the fire department and the building department;

2. Sufficient exits, well-marked and properly lighted;

3. Properly lighted and unobstructed passageways to areas leading away from structure(s);

4. Removal of all poles, ropes or other obstructions within the aisles or exits of a place of assembly;

5. Sufficient “No Smoking” signs shall be visible at all times in those areas so designated;

6. Proper safeguarding of any use of open flames or prohibition of such use;

7. Safeguarding structures or other amusement devices from fire due to unsafe use of straw, dry grass, sawdust or other combustible materials;

8. Proper facilities or devices to contact the City fire department or other emergency response unit;

9. Such fire equipment as the Fire Chief deems necessary for proper fire protection;

10. Flameproof tents, cloth, canvas, rigging, ropes or other combustible materials;

11. The attendance of sufficient police officers and firefighters as the chiefs of police and fire deem necessary for crowd control and such other control required to protect the public health, safety and welfare;

12. Location and number of fire extinguishers to be determined by the Fire Chief;

13. Access for a fire department aid car to within fifty (50) feet of twenty-five (25) percent of the perimeter of any building;

14. Access for a fire department pumper to within one hundred fifty (150) feet of all portions of the exterior of a building; and

15. A fire flow of no less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) gallons per minute. Fire flow requirements may exceed this minimum.

B. The City building official or other appropriate city representative may, before the opening of an activity to the public licensed under this chapter, and periodically during its operation thereafter, inspect structures or mechanical devices to determine compliance with applicable codes and permit restrictions so as to ensure public safety. (Ord. 2546 § 2 (part), 2010; Ord. 1664 § 2 (part), 1992).