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UNIFORM BUILDING CODE inay be included in net area. A !1 be progided per sheller ec- lair per minute per person shall fating rate sufficient to main- ,f not more than 82°F. for at are required. as steam, gas and oil shall not ision is made to control such to widely spaced exits from a s of the building or outdoors. e at least one unit of egress :ase shall a single exit be less )se fallout shelters shall have the case of dual-use fallout naI use shall govern, except hum live loads for floor e 40 pounds per square foot -ed. ng from the normal water be provided on the basis of percent of the toilets may npty water containers may 1976 EDITION 7001-7004--APPENDIX Chapter 70 EXCAVATION AND GRADING Purpose Sec. 7001. The purpose of this Chapter is to safeguard life, limb, prop- erty and the public welfare by regulating grading on private property. Scope Sec. 7002. This Chapter sets forth rules and regulations to control ex- cavation: grading and earthwork construction, including fills and em- bankments; establishes the administrative procedure for issuance of per- mits; and provides for approval of plans and inspection of grading con- struction. Permits Required Sec. 7003. No person shall do any grading without first having obtained a grading permit from the Building Official except for the following: 1. Grading in an isolated, self contained area if there is no danger ap- parent to private or public property. 2. An excavation below finished grade for basements and footings of a building, retaining wall or other structure authorized by a valid building permit. This shall not exempt any fill made with the material from such ex- cavation nor exempt any excavation having an unsupported height greater than 5 feet after the completion of such structure. 3. Cemetery graves. 4. Refuse disposal sites controlled by other regulations. 5. Excavations for wells or tunnels or utilities. 6. Mining, quarrying, excavating, processing, stockpiling of rock, sand, gravel, aggregate or clay where established and provided for by law pro- vided such operations do not affect the Iateral support or increase the stresses in or pressure upon any adjacent or contiguous property. 7. Exploratory excavations under the direction of soil engineers or engineering geologists. 8. An excavation which (a) is less than 2 feet in depth, or (b) which does not create a cut slope greater than 5 feet in height and steeper than one and one-half horizontal to one vertical. 9. A fill less than I foot in depth, and placed on natural terrain with a slope flatter than five horizontal to one vertical~ or less than 3 feet in depth, not intended to support structures, which does not exceed 50 cubic yards on any one lot and does not obstruct a drainage course. Hazards Sec. 7004. Whenever the Building Official determines that any existing excavation or erhbankment or fill on private property has become a hazard to life and limb, or endangers property, or adversely affects the safety, use 8ir'/