[Adopted 2-26-1959 as Ord. 4.7 of
the 1959 Unified Code of Ordinances]
No person other than a member of the Fire Department
shall display or maintain on any vehicle owned or controlled by him
any letters, emblem or insignia indicating or purporting to indicate
membership in or connection with the Fire Department.
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully
and designedly to give, assist in giving, give countenance or request
for or cause to be given any false alarm of fire in any manner; provided,
however, that this section shall not apply to members of the Fire
Department (or signal system force) in making tests or repairs under
the direction of the proper authorities.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper,
meddle or in any way interfere with any station or signal box of any
fire alarm signal system or any auxiliary appliance; to willfully
break, injure, deface or remove or to make any connection or communication
with the poles, wires, boxes or other parts or 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 legally
posted relating to the same.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make
or cause to be made or to use or have in his possession any key, impression
or duplicate key of any signal box of the fire alarm signal system
without the written permission of the Fire Chief.
It shall be unlawful, without the authority
or consent of the Fire Chief or his assistant in command, for any
person to run, drive or draw or cause to be run, driven or drawn any
animal, motor vehicle or other vehicle over or upon or willfully to
injure or damage or in any manner molest or interfere with any hose
belonging to the Fire Department, laid on or in any street, alley,
public ground or public place or vacant lot at the occurrence of a
fire or at any alarm of fire or for any other purpose.
It shall be unlawful for any person in any manner
to obstruct the use of any fire hydrant within the village or to have
or place any material in front thereof from the curbline to the center
of the street and within 10 feet from either side thereof. All such
obstructions may be forthwith removed by the Highway Department or
other village department or by the officers or members of the Fire
Department and at the risk, cost and expense of the owner of or claimant
to the obstructing material.
[Amended 3-3-2008 by L.L. No. 5-2008]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, unless duly authorized,
to unfasten, open or draw water from or otherwise use or interfere
with any of the fire hydrants set in any of the public streets, places
or grounds or to break open, unfasten, remove or otherwise willfully
injure or interfere with any of the boxes, cases, fastenings or other
appurtenances of such hydrants.
B.
All privately owned and maintained fire hydrants in
the Village must comply with the Fire Code of the State of New York
Section 508.5.3, Private fire service mains and water tanks, as amended
from time to time.
C.
All owners of privately owned and maintained fire
hydrants in the Village must submit to the Village Building Inspector
an annual certification by a professional engineer by December 31
that the privately owned and maintained fire hydrants comply with
the requirements stated in this section.
D.
Owners of privately owned fire hydrants are exempted
from the provisions of this section if the Village of Tarrytown has
obtained an easement from the owners to maintain the privately owned
fire hydrants.
It shall be unlawful for any person willfully
or without proper authority to damage, deface, destroy, remove, take
away, keep or conceal any tool, appliance, accessory, apparatus or
other property or article belonging to or used in way by the Fire
Department.
It shall be unlawful willfully to hinder or
obstruct or offer any hindrance or obstruction to any apparatus of
the Fire Department while proceeding to a fire or willfully to hinder
or obstruct any fireman in the performance of his duty.
The Chief of the Fire or Police Department or
any of his assistants having charge of or at any fire shall have the
authority, whenever, in his opinion, it shall become necessary so
to do to facilitate the extinguishing of such fire, to establish fire
lines about the same. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless
he is the owner, lessee or one having some property right or interests
in the burning property or other property imperiled thereby, to enter
the limits fixed by such lines. Nothing herein contained shall operate
to exclude from the limits so established any member of the Fire or
Police Department, any official of the village or any person who shall
have obtained and exhibits a written permit from or badge issued by
the Chief of the Fire Department so to enter. Such lines so established
shall be taken charge of by the police (or fire police) with full
power to make arrests and to prosecute persons violating this section.
