[Code 1979, § 9.171]
No person shall willfully molest, take for his own private use
or damage in any manner any firefighting equipment or apparatus or
anything pertaining to the firefighting system, or drive any vehicle
upon or against any hose or equipment of the Fire Department.
[Code 1979, § 9.172]
It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct, restrain, hinder
or impede any member of the Fire Department of the City in passing
through, along or across any public highway, street, alley or other
public place in the City while the member of the Fire Department is
in the performance of any of his duties as a member of the Fire Department
or attending or responding to any alarm of fire or in his entrance
upon any premises in the City while in the performance of any of such
duties. It shall be unlawful for any person to neglect or refuse to
give the right-of-way to any member of the Fire Department of the
City when responding to any alarm of fire in the City, or to in any
manner interfere with any of the equipment of the department or the
vehicles or other fire apparatus under the control of the Fire Department
or any member of the department. It shall be unlawful for any person
to neglect or refuse to obey any order duly made by the officer in
command of the department at any time any conflagration is in progress
in the City.
[Code 1979, § 9.173]
No person shall place any obstruction whatever, nor shall any
person responsible for such obstruction permit it to remain, within
15 feet of any fire hydrant.
[Code 1979, § 9.174]
No person except authorized City officers and employees shall
use any fire hydrant, except in case of emergency, without first securing
permission from the department of public works for such use, and paying
or agreeing to pay for the water to be used. In no case shall any
wrench or tool be used on any fire hydrant other than a regulation
City hydrant wrench.
[Code 1979, § 9.175]
The Fire Chief is hereby empowered to enter at any and all reasonable
times upon and into any premises, building or structure for the purpose
of examining and inspecting them, to ascertain the conditions of them
with regard to fire hazards and the condition, size, arrangement and
efficiency of any and all appliances for firefighting. If the inspection
shall disclose any fire hazard or any deficiency in firefighting appliances,
the Fire Chief shall order the condition remedied. Every order made
by the Fire Chief shall be promptly obeyed and complied with.
[Code 1979, § 9.176]
No person owning or being responsible for any premises shall
permit any waste paper, ashes, oil, rags, waste rags, excelsior or
any material of a similar nature to accumulate thereon, unless contained
in fireproof receptacles.
[Code 1979, § 9.177]
The following rules relative to passageways, stairs and fire
exits shall be applicable to all public buildings, places of assembly,
commercial and business buildings, hotels, apartment buildings, lodginghouses,
tourist homes and all other buildings except private dwellings and
except as otherwise expressly limited in this section to a particular
type of building:
(1)
No fire escape, stairway, balcony or ladder on any
building shall be obstructed, out of repair or maintained in a hazardous
condition. Doors and windows leading to any fire escape shall open
easily from the inside.
(2)
No combustible material shall be stored, placed or
kept under or upon any passageway, stairs or elevator shaft, nor shall
any such material be stored, placed or kept in any other part of any
building in such a position as to obstruct or render hazardous egress
therefrom.
(3)
All doors, hallways and stairways shall be unobstructed
at all times.
(4)
In all theaters, churches, schools and other places
of public assembly, no door, aisle or passageway shall be obstructed
with any furniture or article; nor shall any person sit or stand or
be permitted to sit or stand in any aisle, or in any exit or passageway;
and all exits and the sidewalks leading therefrom shall be unobstructed
while such places of public assembly are in use.
(5)
No person shall do any act which causes any violation
of any of the rules set forth in this section, nor shall any person
owning any building or in charge thereof as agent, employee or otherwise
permit any of such rules to be violated.
