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Section 5. Recol!:nition of Bnildinl!: Code. This Code recognizes and incorporates, as fully as if set out herein, the Florida Building Code. Whenever the Florida Building Code is referenced herein, and this Fire Prevention Code addresses an identical issue, the more stringent fire protection provision shall apply. Section 6. Recol!:nition of the South Florida Fire Prevention Code. This Code recognizes the South Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted by Miami-Dade County pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Miami-Dade County Code. The same are hereby adopted and incorporated, as fully as if set out at length, herein. Whenever the South Florida Fire Prevention Code as referenced herein and this Fire Prevention Code address an identical issue, the more stringent fire protection provisions shall apply. Section 7. Application. The provisions of this Code shall apply to all buildings, structures, vehicles, marine vessels, premises, and conditions within this jurisdiction. The provisions of this Code shall apply equally to existing as well as new buildings (unless specifically noted in this Code). Structures, vehicles, marine vessels, premises, and conditions noting strict compliance with this code may be permitted to continue unless, in the opinion of the Fire Marshal or the City of Sunny Isles Beach, they constitute a distinct fire hazard to life or property. Section 8. Authoritv. A. This Code shall be administered and enforced by the City Manager or designee or the Fire Marshal of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department or the Fire Chief of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department. B. This Code shall be deemed an exercise of the police powers of the City of Sunny Isles Beach for the preservation and protection for the public health, peace, safety, and welfare, and all the provisions of this Code shall be liberally construed for that purpose. Section 9. Hazardous conditions. A. Any person, upon discovering evidence of spontaneous heating or other abnormal heating of any 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 appraised of any uncontrolled hazardous leak or hazardous material or combustible or flammable liquid spill, shall immediately notify the fire Department via 911. B. No person shall knowingly maintain a fire hazard. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons firm or corporation to set fire to any lands, cause fire to be started or set on any lands, to clear lands by fire, to any field, forest or prairie fires, or to abandon or leave unguarded any open fire, within the boundaries of the City. Section 10. Smokinl!:. Where conditions exist which make smoking a fire hazard on any premise, "No Smoking" signs shall be posted as directed by the City Manager or designee or 3 U:\LEGlSTLATION\Draft Ordinances\2006\Fire Prevention Regulations.doc