Notice of Public Hearing

CITY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

A Public Hearing on the following proposed Ordinances 4-15-01 Snow Removal Residential Age Exemption and 3-15-04 Connection of Fire Alarms to Municipal Systems as amended will be held before the City Council on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 7:30 pm., Council Chamber, 869 Park Avenue Cranston, R.I. pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Charter.

Complete copy of the proposed Ordinance is available for public review at the City Clerk’s Office and the Cranston Central Library and on the City’s website cranstonri.com under calendar by clicking on the Council March 23, 2015 meeting date, then docket

“Individuals requesting interpreter services for the deaf or hard of hearing must notify the City Clerk’s Office at 461-1000 ext. 3197 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the hearing date.”

John E. Lanni, Jr., Maria Medeiros Wall, JD

Council President City Clerk

PROPOSED ORRDINANCE

NO 4-15-01 IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE 12, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON, 2005, ENTITLED “STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES”

(Snow Removal – Residential Exemption)

*As Amended in Committee 5/4/2015

It is ordained by the City Council of the City of Cranston as follows:

Section 1. Title 12, Chapter 16, entitled “Snow and Ice-Removal of snow-Penalty” is hereby amended as follows:

12.16.010 - Snow and ice—Removal of snow—Penalty.

A. The owner, occupant or an building or lot of land bordering on any street, highway, square or public place where there is a sidewalk supported by curbing, shall, within the first twenty-four (24) hours after any snow has ceased to fall, cause the snow to be removed from the sidewalk adjoining such building or lot of land.

B. If said owner or occupant is [fifty-five (55)] sixty-two (62) years of age or older or is physically disabled*or has a prior medical condition that would prevent him or her from shoveling snow and unable to shovel snow, no fine shall be imposed for failing to remove snow if said owner or occupant provides the police officer with a letter from his or her doctor attesting to the fact that the person is physically unable to shovel snow.

C. In case of neglect so to do, the person chargeable with such duty shall pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00) and for each and every hour after the expiration of such twenty-four (24) hours that the snow shall remain on the sidewalk, such owner, occupant or other person shall pay a fine of not less than one nor more than two dollars.

Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect on final adoption.

PROPOSED ORDINANCE

NO. 3-15-04 IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE 2, CHAPTER 24, SECTION 090 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON ENTITLED “CONNECTION OF FIRE ALARMS TO MUNICIPAL SYSTEMS”

4/16/2015 Finance referred to

Safety Services

*As amended in Committee 5/4/2015

It is ordained by the City Council of the City of Cranston as follows:

Section 1. Title 2 Chapter 24, Section 090 entitled “Connection of Fire Alarms to Municipal Systems” is hereby amended by deleting the following:

(B. Purchase an approved local energy master fire alarm box.

C. Pay a connection fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) plus an additional fifty cents ($.50) a foot in locations where the building is located more than one hundred (100) feet from the existing municipal circuit. This fee is to cover the City’s costs of labor, wire and pole hardware to connect the private system at a location to be approved by the superintendent of fire alarm.)

and substituting thereto the following:

B. Purchase an approved radio fire alarm box; and install per direction of the superintendent of fire alarm. Any and all existing connected systems must be transferred from wired connections to radio boxes by June 30, *2016 *2025.

C. Pay a connection fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). This fee is to cover programming and acceptance testing to connect the private system at a location to be approved by the superintendent of fire alarm.

Section 2. The above fee shall be paid to the City (Treasurer) of Cranston prior to connections and will cover all

expenses incurred by the City in making said installations.

Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect upon its final adoption.

Sponsored by: Councilman Michael W Favicchio

5/21/15