Subject: 9928/Code/Ch.10/10-6/Movable metal gates
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                              ORDINANCE NO.   9928 
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, CHAPTER 10, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION
                   10-6, RELATIVE TO IMPOSING REQUIREMENTS UPON
                   THE INSTALLATION OF MOVABLE METAL GATES OR
                   BARRIERS UPON BUSINESSES LOCATED WITHIN THE
                   DOWNTOWN AREA OF THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA.
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter
       10, be and is hereby amended to include a new Section 10-6 to
       impose regulations upon business owners wishing to install or
       maintain metal gates or barriers upon their businesses located
       within the Downtown Area of the City of Chattanooga as follows:
            Sec. 10-6.     Installation of metal gates or barriers
                           within the Downtown Area of the city--
                           prohibited.
           
            	 (a)  In the interest of public safety and in the
            interest of the safety of city employees responding to
            fire calls within the Downtown Area as hereinafter
            defined, movable metal gates or movable metal barriers
            which may be locked during any portion of the day or
            night upon the entrances, exits and windows of any
            business within the Downtown Area of the City of
            Chattanooga is expressly prohibited.
           
            	 (b)  "Movable metal gates" or "metal barriers"
            shall be defined to include the following: 
           
            	  i)  roll down security doors,
           
            	 ii)  metal security doors on hinges composed of
                      bars, metal screen, or interlocking metal
                      pieces, or
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                iii)  any permanent metal security barrier which is
                      constructed on the exterior or interior of the
                      entrance, exit or window of any structure
                      located within the Downtown Area of the city
                      for the purpose of preventing access into any
                      structure and which is capable of being locked
                      from the interior or exterior of the structure
                      during any portion of the day or night. 
           
            	 (c)  This section shall not be construed to prevent
            any tenant or owner within the Downtown Area from
            installing doors and windows upon any structure which
            are determined by the Building Official and the Fire
            Marshall to fully comply with the Building Code and Fire
            Safety Codes adopted by the City of Chattanooga other
            than movable metal gates or metal barriers.
           
            	 (d)  For the purposes of this Ordinance, the
            "Downtown Area" is defined to be the area bounded by the
            centerline of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard on the
            south, a line twenty feet (20') west of the city
            right-of-way on Chestnut Street (extended) on the west,
            the Tennessee River on the north, and a line twenty feet
            (20') east of the city right-of-way on Cherry Street
            (extended) on the east.
           
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That this ordinance shall be effective two
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading July 27, 1993.	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:   X   DISAPPROVED: _______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  July 28, 1993.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR
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