The Chief of the Fire Department, the Fire Marshal,
or a deputy of either shall survey each mercantile and manufacturing
establishment, school, place of assembly, hospital, place of detention,
hotel and multifamily house, and shall specify suitable fire detecting
devices or extinguishing appliances which shall be provided in or
near boiler rooms, kitchens of restaurants, clubs and like establishments,
storage rooms involving considerable combustible material, rooms in
which hazardous manufacturing processes are involved, garage sections
and other places of a generally hazardous nature. Such devices or
appliances may consist of automatic fire alarm systems, automatic
sprinkler or water spray systems, standpipe and hose, fixed or portable
fire extinguishers of a type suitable for the probable class of fire,
or suitable asbestos blankets, manual or automatic covers, or carbon
dioxide or other inert gas extinguishing systems. In specially hazardous
processes or storages, appliances of more than one type or special
systems may be required.
Sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire alarm
systems and other fire protective or extinguishing systems or appliances
which have been installed in compliance with any permit or order or
because of any law or ordinance shall be maintained in operative condition
at all times, and it shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant to
reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required; except this
shall not prohibit the owner or occupant from temporarily reducing
or discontinuing the protection where necessary to make test, repairs,
alterations or additions. The Chief of the Fire Department, the Fire
Marshal, or a deputy of either shall be notified before such test,
repairs, alterations or additions are started, unless the work is
to be continuous until completion.