Whenever a fire protection district adopts an ordinance that establishes building standards relating to fire safety that may be more stringent than State Fire Marshal and State Building Standards Code requirements, the fire protection district’s regulations are not effective within the jurisdictional boundaries of the unincorporated area of the County unless and until the Board of Supervisors ratifies the ordinance. (Health and Saf. Code, § 13869.7.)
This Board Order ratifies the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District’s adoption of the 2013 California Fire Code with the District’s local amendments. This Board Order modifies the District’s ordinance by providing for the retention of Board of Supervisors’ discretion for final County approval of entitlements, completion of development improvements, and issuing of County stop work orders within the unincorporated areas of the County that are within the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District. This Board Order also provides for the retention of the County’s authority to regulate when State-adopted building standards codes and related codes are involved in order to achieve unincorporated area uniformity for matters such as park access, public road standards, and street names.
If the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District Ordinance No. 2014-01 is not ratified, the ordinance would not be effective in the unincorporated area of the County within the District.