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Section 508.5.1, Where required, shall be amended as follows: Where a portion of the facility or building hereafter constructed or moved into within the City of Paris is more than 500 feet from a hydrant on a fire apparatus access road, as measured by an approved route around the exterior of the facility or building, on-site fire hydrants and mains shall be provided where required by the Fire Code Official. 1. PROTECTED PROPERTIES. Fire hydrants required to provide a supplemental water supply for automatic fire protection system shall be within 100 feet of the fire department connection for such systems. 2. FIRE HYDRANT LOCATIONS. Fire hydrants shall be located 2 feet to 6 feet back from the curb or fire lane and shall not be located in the bulb of a cul-de-sac. Section 511, EMERGENCY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, shall be added to read as follows: SECTION 511 EMERGENCY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS 511.1 Signal strength in buildings. In all new and existing buildings in which the type of construction or distance from an operational emergency services antenna or dispatch site does not provide adequate frequency or signal strength, as determined by the Fire Code Official, the building owner shall be responsible for providing the equipment, installation and maintenance of said equipment in a manner to strengthen the radio signal. The radio signal shall meet the minimum input/output strengths according to the emergency radio system's provider and fire department's communications officer. Section 704.1, Enclosure, shall be amended to read as follows: Interior vertical shafts, including but not limited to stairways, elevator hoistways, service and utility shafts, that connect two or more stories of a building shall be enclosed or protected in accordance with the codes in effect at the time of construction but, regardless of when constructed, not less than as specified in Table 704.1. When openings are required to be protected, openings into such shafts shall be maintained self- closing or automatic-closing by smoke detection. Existing 17 fiJ W ~0 V(1)