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ORDINANCE NS - 1163 (vii) Operation of the sprinkler system shall activate the voice communication system. 2. When the automatic sprinkler system described above is installed, the following reductions from the requirements of this Code are permitted: (i) The fire-resistive time periods set forth in Table No. 17-A may be reduced by one hour for interior bearing walls, exterior bearing and non-bearing walls, roofs and the beams supporting roofs, provided they do not frame into columns. All office building partitions required to be of one-hour fire-resistive construction by Table No. 17-A and Section 3304 (g) may be of noncombustible construction with- out a fire-resistive time period. Openings in corridor walls shall be protected by tight-fitting, self-closing doors that need not have a fire-resistive time period. In Group H Occupancies, corridor and dwelling unit or guest room separa- tion may be reduced to one-half hour. (ii) omitted. The 1 1/2 inch hose lines and nozzles may be (iii) Travel distance to a horizontal exit or to an enclosed stairway may be 300 feet. (iv) Smokeproof enclosures may be eliminated if each required stairway is pressurized as provided in Section 3309 (h) to .15 inch of water column. (v) Spandrel protection required by Subsection (b) may be omitted. SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sen- tence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 3: Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinances relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any viola- tion thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or case deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance, and all rights and obli- gations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. SECTION 4: The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published in some daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Santa Ana. -5-