[Code 1974 § 14-94; Code 1985 § 9-3;
Code 2005 § 42-1]
No person shall:
(1)
Cut or sever or cause to be cut or severed, or interfere with, in
any manner any wire of the fire alarm system of the City, or remove
or change the fire alarm system, or cut, injure, change, alter, or
remove any pole, crossarm, bracket or other support upon which the
wires rest or in which such wires are enclosed, or disconnect such
wires or any of them from the gongs, alarm boxes, or instruments connected
with the fire alarm system, or cause in any manner the working of
the fire alarm system to become obstructed or interfered with without
being first duly authorized so to do by the chief of the fire department;
(2)
Deface or in any manner injure any of the fire alarm boxes or any
instruments or appliances connected with or belonging to the fire
alarm telegraph or tamper with or obstruct in any manner whatsoever
the boxes, keys or glass upon any of the boxes or make or cause to
be made, without authority from the chief of the fire department,
keys to any alarm box or to so use or cause to be used any such unauthorized
key to be made;
(3)
Place or fasten over or upon any fire alarm box a handbill, notice
or sign of any kind, except the signs placed upon the fire alarm box
by direction of the chief of the fire department and pertaining to
the fire alarm service.
[Code 1974 § 14-95; Code 1985 § 9-4;
Code 2005 § 42-2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to report, or cause to be
reported, directly or indirectly, the existence of a fire to a fire
department, fire station or other agency charged with the responsibility
of extinguishing fires, unless such person knows or reasonably believes
that such fire is in existence.
[Code 1974 §§ 8-81, 8-80; Code 1985 §§ 9-5,
9-6; Code 2005 § 42-3]
Any person who, at any burning of a building, is guilty of any
disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or firefighter,
or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of
any firefighter or company of firefighters to extinguish the fire,
or of any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the fire from being
extinguished, or who forbids, prevents or dissuades others from assisting
to extinguish the fire, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Code 1974 § 8-80; Code 1985 § 9-7; Code
2005 § 42-4]
It shall be the duty of every police officer at a fire:
(1)
To keep unauthorized persons from the immediate vicinity of the fire;
(2)
To remove all persons who are in the way of, or impeding the work
of the fire department;
(3)
To aid in protecting all property placed at risk at a fire from theft
or needless injury; and
(4)
To cooperate with the fire department in every possible way while
at the fire.
[Code 1974 § 8-80; Code 1985 § 9-8; Code
2005 § 42-5]
The chief of the fire department or any police officer shall
have power to designate some person to guard any personal property
left in an exposed condition at the scene of a fire at the expense
of the owner of such goods.
[Code 1974 § 8-71; Code 1985 § 9-9; Code
2005 § 42-6]
It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to
see that no fire department supplies are wasted, destroyed or loaned.
He shall not allow any of the fire department equipment to be loaned
or taken from the fire department building for any purpose except
for practice by the fire department or for use by fire department
employees in the extinguishment of fires.
[Code 1974 § 8-70; Code 1985 § 9-10;
Code 2005 § 42-7]
No person shall willfully and without authority damage, remove,
take away or conceal any fire department property.
[Ord. No. 06-18-12-01, § 1, 6-18-2012; Code 2005 § 42-8]
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to burn trash,
lumber, leaves, straw, grass or any other combustible material within
the City of Cushing, except by special permission of the fire chief,
when such burning shall be done under such safeguards as he may direct.
