It shall be the duty of the inspectors of the Fire Prevention Bureau
to enforce all laws and ordinances of the state, county, town and Village
covering the following:
B. The storage and use of explosives and inflammables.
C. The installation and maintenance of automatic and other
private fire alarm systems and fire-extinguishing equipment.
The Fire Prevention Bureau shall, under the direction of the officer
in charge, investigate the cause, origin and circumstances of every fire occurring
in the Village of Rockville Centre and its fire protection districts, and
so far as possible shall determine whether the fire is the result of carelessness
or design. If the fire is of suspicious or undetermined origin, the officer
in charge of the fire shall take charge immediately of the physical evidence
and shall notify the proper authorities.
As used in this article, the following term shall have the meaning indicated:
PERSON
Includes person, persons, firms or corporations.
The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department shall have power to modify
any of the provisions of this article upon application in writing by the owner,
lessee or occupant, when there are practical difficulties in the may of carrying
out the strict letter of this article, provided that the same are not inconsistent
with the general intent of this article and public safety and substantial
justice be done. Such modifications shall be in writing by the Chief Engineer.
Appropriate signs indicating the location of the nearest fire alarm
box shall be installed at all entrances of all multiple dwellings and places
of public assembly by the owner, tenant or person in charge of said building,
said signs to be approved by the Bureau of Fire Prevention as to size, material,
wording, place and manner of installation. No person or persons, firm, association
or corporation shall refuse to permit the installation of such signs as provided
herein, or shall remove any such sign so installed.
Any boiler room, fire room or cellar which has a depression in the floor,
and any inside or outside grease pit, shall be properly guarded with metal
rails or chains. All outside openings or areaways shall be protected with
a grating at grade level or with a rail. It shall be the duty of the inspectors
to investigate any such condition and to see that the provisions of this section
are complied with. This section shall apply to all buildings, with the exception
of one-family residences.
All trap doors in any factory or storage building shall be closed at
the completion of the business of each day. Every outside window in any such
building which opens directly on any hoistway or other vertical means of communication
between two or more floors in such building shall be plainly marked with the
word "Shaftway" in red letters at least six inches high on a white background,
such warning sign to be so placed as to be easily discernible from the outside
of the building. Every door or window opening on such shaftway from the interior
of the building, unless the construction of the partition surrounding the
shaftway is of such distinctive nature as to make the purpose evident at a
glance, shall be similarly marked with the warning word "Shaftway" so placed
to be easily visible to anyone approaching the shaftway from the interior
of the building. Any open shaftway shall be properly protected by a suitable
guardrail at all times.
Inflammable materials of whatever nature or texture shall not be used
for decoration purposes in show windows, stores nor any place of public assembly
unless such materials are first rendered flameproof in a manner acceptable
to the enforcing officer; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be
held to prohibit the display of salable goods, permitted and offered for sale,
in stores. Electric light bulbs in stores or public halls shall not be decorated
with paper or other combustible materials unless such materials shall first
have been rendered flameproof.
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices for conveying smoke or
hot gases to the outer air, and the stoves, furnaces, fireboxes or boilers
to which they are connected, shall be maintained in such a manner as not to
endanger property.