California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 4 - California Horse Racing Board › Article 17 - Fire Prevention and Security › Section 1927 - Fire Prevention

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Associations shall make adequate provision for fire
				  prevention, protection against fire, and fire suppression within the inclosure.
				  Before any license is granted to any association, each applicant therefor must
				  inform the Board, in detail, of the fire prevention facilities at or available
				  to its inclosure, and particularly its stable area.
When a licensee is unable to stable all the horses
				  participating at its meeting on its grounds, such licensee must advise the
				  Board of the facilities for fire prevention at the additional location where
				  such excess number of horses will be stabled.
A written clearance from the fire authority having
				  jurisdiction, stating that an inspection has been made of the inclosure and any
				  additional location where any excess number of horses will be stalled and that
				  the facilities conform with a reasonable standard of fire safety, shall be
				  filed with the Board prior to the commencement of a race meeting. Such
				  inspection shall have been made within 45 days prior to the commencement of the
				  meeting.
For the purposes of this regulation, a reasonable standard of
				  fire safety shall require that each building, barn or structure which is used
				  by an association for the stabling of horses or human habitation, be equipped
				  with an automatic sprinkler system and an automatic fire alarm system, and that
				  the stable area grounds, including any additional location where any excess
				  number of horses will be stabled, be patrolled by a watchman during the hours
				  of darkness. The type and installation of automatic sprinkler and automatic
				  fire alarm systems shall be of such quality as to afford the protection
				  required by this regulation as determined and approved by the fire authority
				  having jurisdiction. Portable structures or sheds fully open on at least one
				  side, with the approval of the fire authority having jurisdiction, and trailer
				  coaches, campers and unroofed stalls are exempted from the automatic sprinkler
				  and fire alarm requirement, so long as they are located within the effective
				  operating distance of exterior wet standpipe fire hose streams and within 150
				  feet of a manual fire alarm box.
Any association whose stable area, including any additional
				  location where any excess number of horses will be stabled, does not conform
				  with a reasonable standard of fire safety as defined in this regulation may
				  petition the Board for an extension of time within which to comply with this
				  regulation or exemption from such requirements. In reviewing any such petition,
				  the Board shall take into consideration any written recommendations from the
				  fire authority having jurisdiction as well as all other matters pertinent to
				  the petition, including the fact that the Board recognizes that the physical
				  structure of each racing inclosure is unique and, as such, inherent with its
				  own particular problems. Any extension of time or exemption granted by the
				  Board shall be in writing and may be on such conditions as the Board may deem
				  appropriate.