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Highland fire chief presents draft municipal fire code, hazardous‑materials rules
Summary
Fire Chief Glenn Schlesser presented a comprehensive draft municipal fire code covering the Fire Prevention Bureau structure, inspection and enforcement authority, plan review and permitting requirements, emergency-entry and fire-investigation powers, life-safety systems, and an expanded hazardous-materials registration and reporting program. He said the text largely mirrors language from a neighboring municipality to ensure legal defensibility and asked Council to convert it into ordinance form.
Fire Chief Glenn Schlesser reviewed a lengthy draft municipal fire code that would create a local Fire Prevention Bureau, define inspection and enforcement authority, set permitting and plan-review requirements for fire-protection systems, and establish hazardous-materials registration and spill-response procedures.
Schlesser told the Council the draft borrows from Hobart's ordinance language to ensure it ‘‘passed legal muster’’ and covers standard operational items including the right to enter for emergency response, the ability to issue Notices of Violation, reinspection fees, key-box/Knox access, AED placement guidance, hydrant and water-supply requirements, emergency-power testing records, and plan-review timelines. The draft also establishes a hazardous-materials registration and annual renewal requirement, remote-site registration for temporary uses, immediate spill-reporting rules, and a cost-recovery mechanism for hazardous-materials response that would feed into a dedicated fund.
Councilors reviewed the sections in detail and asked for a formal ordinance draft for review in ordinance form. The chief said he would prepare the code as an ordinance and return it to the Council for consideration; no ordinance vote or fee schedule adoption occurred during the study session.
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