[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Hudson
Falls 8-18-1986 as Ch. 18 of the 1968 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes one or more persons of either sex, natural persons, corporations,
partnership, associations, joint-stock companies and all other entities of
any kind capable of being.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or deposit or to cause or
permit to be kept or deposited ashes, smoldering coal or embers, greasy or
oily substances or other matter liable to create spontaneous ignition within
10 feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition, fence, floor, sidewalk,
lumber, hay, shavings, rubbish or other combustible materials, except in metallic
or other noncombustible receptacles or storage places. Such receptacles shall
be placed on noncombustible stands, unless resting on a noncombustible floor
or on the ground outside a building, and must always be kept at least two
feet distant from any combustible wall or partition.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit longer than 48 hours upon
the roof or in any part of any building or in any courtyard, vacant lot or
open space any accumulation of wastepaper, litter or combustible or flammable
waste or rubbish of any kind. Every person making, using, storing or having
charge of or control of any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter,
hay, straw or combustible trash, waste or fragments shall at the close of
each day cause all such material which is not compactly baled and stacked
in an orderly manner to be removed from the premises and stored in suitable
vaults or in metal or metal-lined and covered receptacles or bins. Suitable
presses shall be installed in stores, apartment buildings, factories and similar
places where accumulations of paper and/or waste materials are not removed
at least once every second day.
It shall be unlawful for any person without a written permit from the
Chief of the Fire Department to store or cause or permit to be stored empty
packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar combustible containers, except
in the open; such storage shall not be more than 20 feet in height and shall
be at least 20 feet from the nearest building, unless the wall of the nearest
building is blank or has its openings protected, in which case storage may
be five feet from the nearest building and in a compact and orderly manner.
This section shall not apply to the storage, within a manufacturing or other
establishment, of sufficient packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar
containers properly to carry on its operation, but such storage shall be orderly
and so located as not to endanger entrance or exit from the building.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or cause or permit to be
used cotton batting, straw, dry vines, leaves, trees, celluloid or other highly
flammable material for decorative purposes in show windows or stores without
a written permit of the Chief of the Fire Department. Electric light bulbs
in stores, public halls or other places of public assemblage shall not be
decorated with paper or other combustible materials unless such materials
shall first have been rendered fireproof. Nothing in this section shall be
held to prohibit the display of salable goods permitted and offered for sale
in the store.
It shall be unlawful for any person to take or cause or permit to be
taken an open flame into any building, barn, vessel or boat or other place
where highly flammable, combustible or explosive material is kept, unless
such light or flame is well secured in a glass globe, wire mesh cage or similar
approved light.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use or cause or permit to be
used any heating apparatus with an open flame or any artificial lighting system
other than incandescent electric lights in any warehouse for the storage of
rags, excelsior, hair or other flammable or combustible material or in any
shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair or renovating of mattresses
or bedding or for the upholstery of furniture.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw from any building a lighted
cigar or cigarette or anything that is on fire so that the same will fall
over or upon an awning or the street, sidewalk or property adjacent thereto,
provided that this section shall not apply to any person throwing from windows
the contents of a building which is on fire.
[Added 3-16-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992;
amended 9-11-2006 by L.L. No. 5-2006]
Outdoor burning in the Village of Hudson Falls is governed by Chapter 142 of the Code.
The Fire Chief shall have full power and it shall be his duty to enforce
all provisions of this chapter and to approve devices and types of receptacles
or containers herein specified.
[Amended 3-16-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 8-14-2000
by L.L. No. 9-2000; 10-12-2004 by L.L.
No. 6-2004]
Any person who, himself or itself or by his or its agent or employee,
violates any of the provisions of this chapter or any order or regulation
given pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days, or
both, for conviction of a first offense; for conviction of a second offense,
both of which were committed within a period of three years, punishable by
a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $500 or imprisonment for a period
not to exceed 30 days, or both; and upon conviction for a third offense or
subsequent offense, all of which were committed within a period of five years,
punishable by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $750 or imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 60 days, or both. Each day on which such violation
continues shall constitute a separate offense.
