§ 18-73. Drawings and specifications.  


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  • (a)

    Requirements. When required by the building official, two or more copies of specifications, and of drawings, drawn to scale with sufficient clarity and detail to indicate the nature and character of the work, shall accompany the application for a permit. Such drawings and specifications shall contain information in the form of notes or otherwise, as to the quality of materials, where quality is essential to conformity with the technical codes. Such information shall be specific, and the technical codes shall not be cited as a whole or in part, nor shall the term "legal" or its equivalent be used, as a substitute for specific information. All information, drawings, specifications and accompanying data shall bear the name and signature of the person responsible for the design.

    (b)

    Additional data. The building official may require details, computations, stress diagrams, and other data necessary to describe the construction or installation and the basis of calculations. All drawings, specifications and accompanying data required by the building official to be prepared by an architect or engineer shall be affixed with his official seal.

    (c)

    Design professional. The design professional shall be an architect or engineer, legally registered under the laws of this state regulating the practice of architecture or engineering and shall affix his official seal to such drawings, specifications and accompanying data, for the following:

    (1)

    All group A, E, and I occupancies.

    (2)

    Buildings and structures three or more stories high.

    (3)

    Buildings and structures 5,000 or more square feet (465 m ) in area.

    For all other buildings and structures, the submittal shall bear the certification of the applicant that some specific state law exception permits its preparation by a person not so registered.

    Exception: Single-family dwellings, regardless of size, shall require neither a registered architect nor engineer, nor a certification that an architect or engineer is not required.

    (d)

    Structural and fire resistance integrity. Plans for all buildings shall indicate how required structural and fire resistance integrity will be maintained where a penetration of a required fire resistance wall, floor or partition will be made for electrical, gas, mechanical, plumbing, signal and communication conduits, pipes and systems and also indicate in sufficient detail how the fire integrity will be maintained where required fire resistance floors intersect the exterior walls.

    (e)

    Site drawings. Drawings shall show the location of the proposed building or structure and of every existing building or structure on the site or lot. The building official may require a boundary line survey prepared by a qualified surveyor indicating footprint of the building or structure.

    (f)

    Hazardous occupancies. The building official may require the following:

    (1)

    General site plan. A general site plan drawn at a legible scale which shall include, but not to be limited to, the location of all buildings, exterior storage facilities, permanent access ways, evacuation routes, parking lots, internal roads, chemical loading areas, storm and sanitary sewage accesses, emergency equipment and adjacent property uses. The exterior storage areas shall be identified on the plan with the hazard classes and the maximum quantities per hazard class of hazardous materials to be stored.

    (2)

    Building floor plan. A building floor plan drawn to a legible scale, which shall include, but not be limited to, all hazardous materials storage facilities within the building and shall indicate rooms, doorways, corridors, exits, fire rated assemblies with their hourly rating, location of liquidtight rooms, and evacuation routes. Each hazardous materials storage facility shall be identified on the plan with the hazard classes and quantity range per hazard class of hazardous materials to be stored.

(Ord. No. 99-5, § 3.2, 5-18-1999)