[Code 1964, § 12-1]
The Bureau of Fire shall participate in the Oneida County Fire
Mutual Aid Plan as now in force and as amended from time to time.
[Code 1964, § 12-10; Ord. No. 35, 3-1-2006]
(a) There is adopted by the Common Council, for the purpose of prescribing
regulations governing conditions hazardous to life and property from
fire or explosion, that certain code known as the "Fire Prevention
Code" recommended by the American Insurance Association, being particularly
the 1970 Edition of the code and the whole of the code, save and except
such portions as are deleted, modified or amended in this chapter,
and the code is adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at
length in this section, and the provisions of the code shall be controlling
within the limits of the City. No less than three copies of the code
shall be on file in the office of the City Clerk.
(b) The Common Council adopts the Property Maintenance Code of the state
and the Fire Code of the state with any subsequent revisions.
[Code 1964, § 12-3(a), (b)]
(a) Prohibited in certain places. No person shall set on fire or burn
or cause to be set on fire or burned any combustible or inflammable
materials or substances of any kind in any street, yard, lot or place
other than in a building within the City.
(b) Exceptions. This section shall not be deemed to apply to the use
of outdoor fireplaces or the burning of materials in metal receptacles
so as not to endanger the inhabitants of the City or their property
on account of fire.
[Code 1964, § 23-51]
No person shall obstruct or cause to be obstructed any fire
hydrant, nor shall any person place anything in front of, over or
around the fire hydrant to prevent, hinder or interfere with its full
and free use at all times.
[Code 1964, § 12-19(c)]
In this article, "Chief" means the person in charge of the Bureau
Office in the Department of Public Safety.
[Code 1964, § 12-19(a), (b)]
(a) Established; supervision. The Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Department
of Public Safety is established, and the Bureau shall be operated
under the supervision of the Chief.
(b) Chief Inspector, assistant inspectors. The Commissioner of Public
Safety shall appoint as Chief Inspector of the Bureau of Fire Prevention
a Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention. The Chief may designate
such number of assistant inspectors as shall from time to time be
authorized by the Commissioner of Public Safety.
[Code 1964, § 12-21]
The Chief shall prepare instructions for the Chief Inspector
and the Chief Inspector's assistants and shall prepare forms for their
use in the reports required by this article.
[Code 1964, § 12-29]
The Chief shall keep in the office of the Bureau of Fire Prevention
a record of all fires and of all the facts concerning fires, including
statistics as to the extent of the fires, the damage caused by the
fires and whether the losses were covered by insurance and, if so,
in what amount. The record shall be made daily from the reports made
by the inspectors under the provisions of this article.
[Code 1964, § 12-30]
The annual report of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be
made on or before February 1 and transmitted to the Commissioner of
Public Safety. It shall contain all proceedings under this article,
with such statistics as the Chief may wish to include in the report.
[Code 1964, § 12-23]
Before any required license may be issued for the keeping, storage,
use, manufacture, sale, handling, transportation or other disposition
of highly inflammable materials and rubbish, crude petroleum or any
of its products, gun or blasting powder, dynamite or explosives of
any kind including fireworks, firecrackers and signaling explosives,
the Chief, the Chief Inspector or the Chief Inspector's assistants
shall inspect and approve the receptacles, vehicles, buildings or
storage places to be used for any such purposes.
[Code 1964, § 12-24]
The Chief, Chief Inspector or an assistant specially designated
may inspect as necessary all specially hazardous manufacturing processes,
storages or installations of acetylene or other gases, chemicals,
oils, explosives and inflammable materials, may inspect all interior
fire alarms and automatic sprinkler systems and such other hazards
or appliances as the Chief shall designate and may make such orders
as may be necessary for the enforcement of the laws and ordinances
governing the same and for safeguarding of life and property from
fire.
[Code 1964, § 12-25; Ord. No. 35, 3-1-2006]
(a) Duty. The Chief may inspect or cause to be inspected by the officers and members of the Bureau of Fire Prevention all buildings, premises and public thoroughfares, in dwellings, the interiors of private dwellings, for the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions liable to cause fire or any violations of the provisions or intent of any ordinance of the City affecting the fire hazard and for the purpose of enforcing Sections
2-12-550—
2-12-556.
(b) Order to correct condition. Whenever any inspector finds in any building or upon any premises or other place any combustible or explosive matter or dangerous accumulations of rubbish or unnecessary accumulations of wastepaper, boxes, shavings or any highly flammable materials especially liable to fire and which is so situated as to endanger property or shall find obstructions to or on fire escapes, stairs, passageways, doors or windows liable to interfere with the operations of the Bureau of Fire or egress of occupants in case of fire the inspector may order the condition to be removed or remedied, within a time specified in the order and the order shall be complied with by the owner or occupant of the premises or buildings, subject to appeal within 24 hours to the chief as provided in Section
2-9-36. Violations of Sections
2-12-550 through
2-12-556 may be ordered to be corrected within a time specified in the order.
(c) Service of order. The service of any order to remove or remedy the
condition may be made upon occupant of the premises to whom it is
directed either by delivering a copy of the order to the occupant
personally or by delivering the order to and leaving it with any person
in charge of the premises or, if no person is found upon the premises,
by affixing a copy of the order in a conspicuous place and mailing
a copy to the owners last known post office address, on the door to
the entrance of the premises. Whenever it may be necessary to serve
an order upon the owner, by mailing a copy to the owner's last known
post office box address.
(d) Failure to comply with order. Any owner or occupant failing to comply with the order within the period of time required in the order after the service of the order shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in Section
2-1-7 of this Code.
[Code 1964, § 12-27]
Subject to constitutional limitations the Chief, the Chief Inspector
or any assistant inspector may, at all reasonable hours, enter any
building or premises within the jurisdiction of the Chief or the inspector
for the purpose of making any inspection or investigation which, under
the provisions of this article, may be deemed necessary to be made.
[Added 3-20-2001 by Ord. No. 57]
(a) The
Comptroller, upon the recommendation of the Mayor, Public Safety Commissioner
and Fire Chief, shall be authorized to fix a schedule of fees or charges
to be paid by persons utilizing such services and to collect such
fees or charges in a manner deemed appropriate by the Comptroller,
including the use of a third-party agency for billing and collection.
The Comptroller shall be authorized to waive any such fees if said
fees are deemed to be uncollectable. Said schedule of fees shall be
kept on file at the office of the City Clerk.
(b) For
the purposes of this section, "emergency medical and rescue services"
shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the performance
of any of the following services by Utica Fire Department personnel:
pre-hospital medical treatment, light- and heavy-duty rescue services,
packaging and extrication of the victim(s), securing scene hazards,
motor vehicle stabilization, cleanup of hazardous materials and medical,
rescue and extrication services performed at commercial and industrial
sites.