[Adopted as Secs. 5-2-2 to 5-2-10 of the 1995 Code]
No person shall impede the progress of a fire engine, fire truck
or other fire apparatus of the Fredonia Fire Department along the
streets or alleys of such Village at the time of a fire or when the
Fire Department of the Village is using such streets or alleys in
response to a fire alarm or for practice.
Every person who shall be present at a fire shall be subject
to the orders of the Fire Chief or officer in command and may be required
to render assistance in fighting the fire or in removing or guarding
property. Such officer shall have the power to cause the arrest of
any person or persons refusing to obey said orders.
Whenever there shall be a fire or fire alarm or the Fire Department
shall be out for practice, every person driving or riding in a motorized
or other vehicle shall move and remain to the side of the street until
the fire engine and fire truck and other fire apparatus shall have
passed.
A report of the Fire Department shall be made annually and transmitted
to the Fredonia Village Board. It shall contain all proceedings under
this article, which such statistics as the Fire Chief may wish to
include therein. The Fire Chief shall also recommend any amendments
to the article which, in his judgment, shall be desirable.
[Adopted as Secs. 5-3-1 to 5-3-11, 5-3-13 to 5-3-18 of the
1995 Code]
It is the intent of this article to prescribe regulations consistent
with recognized standard practice for the safeguarding to a responsible
degree of life and property from the hazards of fire and explosion
arising from the storage, handling and use of hazardous substances,
materials and devices and from conditions hazardous to life and property
in the use or occupancy of buildings or premises.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following terms shall,
for the purpose of this article, have the following meanings.
APPROVAL
Listed or approved by Underwriters' Laboratories Inc.,
Factory Mutual Research Corp., the National Bureau of Standards, the
American Gas Association Laboratories or other nationally recognized
testing authorities and accepted by the Fire Chief as a result of
his investigations and experiences.
AUTOMATIC FIRE WARNING SYSTEM
A supervised system which automatically detects a fire condition,
actuates a fire alarm signal device and indicates the location from
which the signal originates.
DWELLING
A building occupied exclusively for residence purposes and
having not more than two apartments or as a boarding or rooming house
serving not more than five persons with meals or sleeping accommodations,
or both.
ICC CONTAINER
Any container approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission
for shipping any liquid, gaseous or solid material of a flammable,
toxic or other hazardous nature.
INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING
A building in which persons are harbored to receive medical,
charitable or other care or treatment, or in which persons are held
or detained by reason of public or civic duty or for correctional
purposes.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
A building, or portion thereof, containing three or more
dwelling units, occupied as the home or residence of individuals,
families or households living independently of each other, including
tenement house, apartment, flat, townhouse, row house, condominium,
dormitory, boarding or rooming house serving more than five persons
with meals or sleeping accommodations, or both.
PERSON
Includes person, persons, firm, corporation or copartnership.
PUBLIC BUILDING
A building in which persons congregate for civic, political,
education, religious, social or recreational purposes.
RESIDENCE BUILDING
Except when classed as an institutional building, means a
building in which sleeping accommodations are provided.
The Fire Chief, or any subordinate designated by him, may, at
all reasonable hours, enter any building or premises within his jurisdiction
for the purpose of making any inspection or investigation which, under
the provisions of this article, he or they may deem necessary to be
made. Private dwellings shall not be entered without the consent or
permission of an adult occupant.
The Chief of the Fire Department shall keep a record of all
fires and of all the facts concerning the same, including statistics
as to the extent of such fires and the damage caused thereby. All
such records shall be public.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The Chief shall have power to modify any of the provisions of
this Fire Prevention Code upon application, in writing, by the owner
or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when there are practical
difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the code,
provided that the spirit of the code shall be observed, public safety
secured and substantial justice done. The particulars of such modification
when granted or allowed and the decision of the Chief thereon shall
be entered upon the records of the Department, and a signed copy shall
be furnished the applicant.
Whenever the Fire Chief shall disapprove an application or refuse
to grant a permit applied for or when it is claimed that the provisions
of this article do not apply or that the true intent and meaning of
the chapter have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant
may appeal from the decision of the Fire Chief to the Village Board
within 10 days from the date of the decision of the Fire Chief. In
the event of such appeal, the Board shall set a time and place for
hearing hereof and give to the appellant at least 10 days' notice
thereof by mail or personally.
The Fire Chief is hereby empowered to designate the number,
type and location of fire extinguishers as may be deemed necessary
in addition to those now required by law in all existing buildings
and structures and in all buildings and structures hereafter erected.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
This Fire Prevention Code shall be enforced by the Chief of
the Fire Department of the Village of Fredonia and such subordinates
in said department as the Chief shall designate or by the Village
Marshal of Fredonia. The Village Building, Plumbing and Electrical
Inspectors shall cooperate with the Fire Department in enforcing this
article.