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Spanish Fork council updates municipal code to reference state fire code; approves hazmat cost-recovery ordinance
Summary
The City Council voted Aug. 19 to update municipal code references to the state fire code and to allow the city to bill responsible parties for hazardous-material cleanup and response costs, aligning local code with state law and adding specific prohibitions related to obstructing emergency responders.
Spanish Fork City Council on Aug. 19 adopted ordinances that (1) update the municipal code to reference the current state fire code and add several operational provisions for fire and EMS response, and (2) authorize the recovery of city costs for hazardous-material incidents. The changes bring the city—s code into conformity with the state-adopted fire code, add local prohibitions (including impeding fire/EMS, driving over a hose and damaging emergency property), and create a local billing mechanism for extraordinary hazardous-material responses that the council said are expressly authorized by Utah law. Vaughn Pickell…
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