[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Depew 12-27-1971 by L.L. No. 2-1971 as Ch. 65, Art. II,
of the 1971 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Uniform Code: fire prevention — See Ch. 76.
No person shall interfere with any member of
the Fire Department in the discharge of his duty.
No person shall willfully give or assist in
giving any false alarm of fire in any manner.
No person shall tamper, meddle or in any way
interfere with any station or signal box of any fire alarm, telegraph
system or any auxiliary appliance, or willfully break, injure, deface
or remove or make any connection or communication with the poles,
wires, boxes, or other parts of the fixtures of the fire alarm system
so as to interrupt or interfere with the proper working of the same
or to mutilate or destroy any notices that may be posted relating
to the same.
Whenever the Mayor or Board of Trustees or Chief
of the Fire Department lends to the inhabitants of any other municipality
any part of the apparatus or sends any of the members of the Fire
Department of the Village to aid in the extinguishment of fires outside
of the Village, the Board of Trustees in its discretion may charge
and collect from the persons or municipality a reasonable sum sufficient
to defray the cost of rendering such assistance and deposit the same
with the Village Treasurer.
No person shall place or pile any snow, lumber,
stone, building material or any other substance; or store or park
any vehicle within 10 feet of any fire hydrant within the Village.
A.
The Village reserves the right to place, erect, and
maintain any wires or other equipment connected with the Village Fire
Alarm System, police or traffic signal system, shortwave radio system
or any other Village signal system, upon any telephone, telegraph,
electric light, or other pole or poles erected in the Village, the
same to be placed and erected in such a position as not to interfere
with the use, maintenance and operation of other wire and equipment
placed on said poles by the owners thereof.
B.
The wires, posts, poles, structures, supports and
other equipment of the Village fire alarm system, police or traffic
system or other Village alarm, signal, or radio system, shall take
precedence and right-of-way over all other wires, posts, poles and
structures erected and maintained in the Village, and no lineman or
any other person, in erecting or maintaining such wires, posts, poles
and structures, shall interfere with, damage, disturb, or change any
part or portion of the said Village fire alarm, police and traffic
signal or radio system.
No person shall injure or interfere in any way
with any hose or apparatus belonging to or in use by the Village Fire
Department or any other fire department operating in the Village or
otherwise assisting the Village Fire Department.
[Added 8-2-1988 by L.L. No. 4-1988;
amended 12-6-1988 by L.L. No. 8-1988]
The Board of Trustees reserves the right to
authorize the installation or relocation of fire hydrants to assure
that the requirements of fire protection are complied with.
[Amended 5-2-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished as provided in § 1-10 of this Code.
[Added 9-12-2016 by L.L.
No. 4-2016]
A.
Program established.
(1)
The Village hereby establishes a cost recovery program which allows the Village to be reimbursed, to the extent legally permissible, by those utilizing emergency services provided by the Fire Department. The fees are established in the fee schedule in Subsection B.
(2)
All invoices for such fees shall be sent by the Village Clerk or
her designee, and shall state prominently on the invoice that all
fees billed shall be due and payable within 90 days of the invoice
date; all fees not paid within 90 days of the invoice shall be subject
to a late fee of 10%; and if not paid within 120 days, shall be subject
to credit agency reporting or collection by all legal means.
[Added 3-26-2018 by L.L.
No. 1-2018]
B.
Fee schedule. The following fee schedule shall apply to the Fire Department cost recovery program established in Subsection A of this section.
(4)
Hazmat response.
(b)
If a DEC number is issued for a spill, the responsible party
will be billed directly (not the auto insurance) for the actual costs,
including costs to other departments and agencies. In this situation,
if there is a need for other types of service, then the auto insurance
agency may be billed also.
(5)
Fire suppression.
(a)
Motor vehicle fire suppression and extinguishment $150.
(b)
Fire extinguishment in structures.
[1]
Fire extinguishment in a structure that requires foam or wetting
agent will include reimbursement for replacement value of agents or
commodities used or damaged from $200 up to $5,000.
[2]
Fire extinguishment in a commercial structure that requires
foam or a wetting will include reimbursement for replacement value
of any agents or commodities used or damaged from $500 up to $5,000.
(c)
Equipment repair or replacement.
[1]
Structure or auto fires, motor vehicle accidents, and site cleanups
that, as a result of any necessary fire department operations, cause
damage to equipment, apparatus, and personal protective equipment
shall be billed the actual cost of replacement or repair to the insurance
agency.
[Amended 3-26-2018 by L.L. No. 1-2018]
