FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 232
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BANKS.
Read 1st time January 11, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0848.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 320, RSMo, by adding thereto four new sections relating to fire protection, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Chapter 320, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto four new sections, to be known as sections 320.400, 320.405, 320.407 and 320.410, to read as follows:
320.400. As used in sections 320.400 to 320.410, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Existing high rise buildings", any building having floor surfaces used for human occupation located higher than seventy-five feet above street level and constructed before January 1, 1990;
(2) "Fire protection sprinkler system", a system of overhead piping designed in accordance with fire protection engineering standards. The system must be supplied from a reliable, constant and sufficient water supply such as a gravity tank, fire pump, reservoir or pressure tank or connection by underground piping to a city main or any combination of these. The system includes a controlling valve and device for actuating an alarm when the system is in operation. Fire protection sprinkler system, dry-pipe and preaction systems, antifreeze systems, and circulating closed loop systems, have meanings as defined and continuously revised in National Fire Protection Association Pamphlet 13, entitled Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems;
(3) "Master plan", a specific scheme or plan detailing the number of floors, total square footage, present occupancy and a proposed completion date of each phase and completion date of total compliance with the requirements of sections
320.400 to 320.410.
320.405. 1. All existing high rise buildings as defined in section 320.400 shall be protected throughout by an approved fire protection sprinkler system by January 1, 2005.
2. The minimum standards for approved fire protection sprinkler systems shall be the provisions of National Fire Protection Association Pamphlet 13, entitled Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems.
3. The owners of existing high rise buildings which are not, as of September 1, 1999, protected throughout by an approved fire protection sprinkler system shall submit a written master plan to the state fire marshal on or before January 1, 2000, detailing with specificity a schedule for compliance with section 320.400 to 320.410.
4. The state fire marshal is authorized to adopt those rules that are reasonable and necessary to accomplish the limited duties specifically delegated within this section and section 320.407. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is promulgated under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after the effective date of this section shall be invalid and void.
320.407. 1. No work shall begin under a master plan until the plans and specifications have been submitted and reviewed by the state fire marshal's office as required by section 320.405.
2. There shall be a review fee, as established by rule, assessed by the state fire marshal for reviewing the plans and specifications as detailed in section 320.405. Payment of this fee shall be transmitted to the director of the department of revenue for deposit into the general revenue fund.
320.410. Whoever violates the provisions of sections 320.400 to 320.410 shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.