No person, firm or corporation shall keep, store or permit to be kept or stored any paper, shavings or other material of a combustible nature, commonly used for packing, in any building in the Village of Boonville, unless the same shall be kept in a covered metal container.
No person, firm or corporation shall keep or permit to be kept in any building in the Village of Boonville any oily waste or oily rags, unless at all times when not in use the same shall be kept in a metal container and covered.
No person, firm or corporation shall store, keep or permit to remain in any building or in any cellar or basement of any building in the Village of Boonville any accumulation of empty boxes, barrels, papers, rubbish or combustible material which in the judgment of the Chief of the Fire Company presents or increases a fire hazard.
No person, firm or corporation shall deposit, keep or permit to be deposited or kept any straw, wastepaper or other combustible material in any street, sidewalk or place adjacent to any building, unless such combustible material be kept within a closed and separate receptacle with cover.
No person, firm or corporation shall deposit or keep or permit to be deposited or kept any ashes in or within 10 feet of any building or part thereof constructed in whole or in part of wood in the Village of Boonville, except in securely closed containers made of metal. All permanent depositories for ashes within the fire limits of the Village of Boonville shall hereafter be built of brick, stone or other incombustible material.
No person shall throw, drop or place any lighted match, cigar, cigarette or any burning fragment or part thereof, or any burning contents of any pipe, in, upon or through any grating in any sidewalk, or any window of any building, or into any accumulation of combustible material adjacent to any building in the Village of Boonville.
No person shall build any bonfire or burn any paper, straw, leaves or other combustible material on any sidewalks, public street or on any premises within the fire limits of the Village of Boonville, unless such combustible materials are confined in a wire or metal container with a screen cover on top at the time of such burning, or unless a written permit shall first have been obtained from the Chief of the Fire Company of the Village.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Art. III, Inspection of Buildings, consisting of §§ 31-14 through 31-16 of the 1971 Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).