PUBLIC NOTICE - - - ORDINANCE NO. 2026-1 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF ADDIS, LOUISIANA, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES CHAPTER 10, “FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION” WHEREAS, the City Council of the Town of Addis desires to amend the Addis Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10, “Fire Prevention and Protection,” Sections 10-2, 10-3, 10-5, and 10-29 to ensure that such ordinances conform to the intergovernmental arrangement between the Town and the Parish of West Baton Rouge, whereby the parish provides fire prevention and protection services for residents, buildings, and property within the Town’s corporate limits, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Addis, Louisiana, acting as the governing authority thereof, that the Town of Addis Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10, “Fire Prevention and Protection,” is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 10-2. - Conditions requiring notification of fire department. (a) Unfriendly fire. (1) Notification required. Whenever an unfriendly fire occurs in any building or on any premises of any kind, the owner, manager, occupant or any person in control of such building or premises, upon discovery of an unfriendly fire, or evidence of there having been an unfriendly fire, even though it has apparently been extinguished, immediately shall cause notice of the existence of such fire, circumstances of the same, and the location thereof to be given to the town volunteer fire department West Baton Rouge Fire District No. 1 or the entity designated by the West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau for such notification within the Town . This requirement shall not be construed to forbid the owner, manager or other person in control of the aforementioned building or premises from using all diligence necessary to extinguish such fire prior to the arrival of the fire department fire response personnel. (2) Delay prohibited. No person shall make, issue, post or maintain any regulation or order, written or verbal that would require any person to take any unnecessary delaying action prior to reporting a fire to the fire department as mandated by this Section. (3) Exception. This subsection shall not apply to firms which have established on-premises firefighting organizations and equipment and have coordinated and arranged procedures approved by the fire department West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau . (b) Spontaneous heating. (1) Notification required. Any person, upon discovering evidence of spontaneous heating or other abnormal heating of merchandise, commodity, cargo, shipment or other material of any kind in any building, marine vessel, appliance, apparatus, tank or open stack or pile, or any person, upon discovering or being apprised of any uncontrolled hazardous gas leak or hazardous material or combustible or flammable liquids spills, shall immediately notify the fire department West Baton Rouge Fire District No. 1 or the entity designated by the West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau for such notification within the Town . (2) Exception. Subsection (b)(1) of this section shall not apply to firms which have established on-premises firefighting organizations and equipment and have coordinated and arranged procedures approved by the fire department West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau . (c) In railroad yards. Any person, upon discovering any derailment, overturned railroad cars, or any other potentially dangerous situation in the railroad yard in the town, shall immediately notify the fire department West Baton Rouge Fire District No. 1 or the entity designated by the West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau for such notification within the Town. Sec. 10-3. - Fire hydrants—Installation in subdivisions. * * * (b) In all subdivisions seeking approval of the mayor and board of aldermen, there shall be installed a fire hydrant meeting the specifications of this section at every intersection in said subdivision, and such fire hydrant shall also be installed between every intersection so as to ensure that any structure or potential structure shall be no farther from the fire hydrant than 300 feet. The definition of the term "structure," for the purposes of this section and sections 10-4 and 10-5, includes all sides of the structure. All locations and spacing of the fire hydrants shall be approved by the town volunteer fire department West Baton Rouge Parish Fire Prevention Bureau . * * * Sec. 10-5. - Same—Specifications. (a) All fire hydrants installed in the town shall be double steamer hydrants, and approved by the West Baton Rouge Fire Protection Subd D istrict #1. (b) All drain valves on all hydrants shall be made of a noncorrodible material. (c) All hydrant opening threads shall be National Standard hose couplings screw thread. All threads should comply with and be compatible with equipment used by the town volunteer fire department West Baton Rouge Fire Protection District #1 . (d) There shall be no wet-barrel hydrants installed in the town. Only dry-barrel fire hydrants will be installed which meet or exceed American Waterworks Association's most recent standards for dry-barrel hydrants. (e) Block valves shall be installed between the water main and all hydrants. These valves shall be totally accessible to the fire department response personnel without necessity of excavation. (f) No subdivision shall be approved until inspection of the hydrant system shall be completed by the fire chief of the town volunteer fire department and report made to the mayor and board of aldermen as to the compliance with this section and sections 10-3 and 10-4. Sec. 10-29. – Codes adopted. (a) There is hereby adopted by the town, for the purpose of prescribing regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property, from fire and explosion, the State Uniform Fire Prevention Code, as now or hereafter amended, promulgated pursuant to R.S. 40:1578.7. (b) The town further adopts, as if fully reproduced herein, all codes and regulations referenced in Chapter 28 of the Code of Ordinances of the Parish of West Baton Rouge to ensure consistent fire prevention and protection efforts by West Baton Rouge Fire District #1 and the West Baton Rouge Fire Prevention Bureau with the town’s corporate limits. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Addis, Louisiana, acting as the governing authority thereof, this Ordinance shall be designated as Ordinance 2026-1. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Addis, Louisiana that any provisions or items of this Ordinance or the application thereof if held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions, items, or applications, and to this end, the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby declared severable. THIS ORDINANCE HAVING BEEN introduced at a Regular Meeting on the 10TH day of FEBRUARY ,2026, and later having been read paragraph by paragraph at a Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Addis, Louisiana, duly convened on the 10TH day of MARCH, 2026, said Ordinance was, APPROVED AND ADOPTED on the 10TH day of MARCH, 2026, by the following yea and nay votes on the roll call: YEAS: Council Members Bernard, LeBlanc, Parrish, Hebert, Kelley NAYS: None ABSTAINING: None ABSENT: None /s/ David H. Toups HONORABLE DAVID H. TOUPS MAYOR, TOWN OF ADDIS ATTEST: /s/ Jade V. Simpson JADE V. SIMPSON, TOWN CLERK 182050-mar 28-1t $123.35