It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, within the limits
of the Town of Cottage City any motor-driven vehicle, other than vehicles
operated by regularly organized police or fire departments, having
attached hereto an explosive or exhaust whistle or siren.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating any motor-driven
or horse-drawn vehicle to follow closer than 300 feet of any fire
apparatus responding to an alarm within the corporate limits of the
Town of Cottage City, and no vehicle or vehicles of any kind whatsoever
shall be permitted within a radius of 300 feet of the location or
place where any fire apparatus is working or in service.
At least two firemen who are members of the Fire Department
serving the Town of Cottage City shall be permitted to be present
at any public assembly hall where entertainments, lectures, dances,
moving pictures, or other forms of public amusements or gatherings
are in progress within the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage
City.
Any vehicle owned or operated by the Fire Department serving
the Town of Cottage City, while responding to an alarm of fire, shall
have the right-of-way over all streets, avenues, alleys, ways and
other public places while engaged in its duties, and the fireman in
charge thereof shall have the right to rope off and close to the public
any street, avenue, alley or other place in ingress or egress during
the time any fire is in progress.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hinder, delay,
impede or interfere with any officer, member or other person connected
in any capacity with the Fire Department of the Town of Cottage City,
while engaged in preventing or putting out any fire or fires within
the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any vehicle, without
driver or operator, within 15 feet of any public fire hydrant or fire
station entrance within the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage
City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or willfully
give or cause to be given, a false alarm of fire.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle over
any hose, wire, line, warning barricade or other property of the Town
of Cottage City of the Cottage City Fire Department which said hose,
line, wire or barricade is being used or is intended to be used in
fighting or preventing any fire within the corporate limits of the
Town of Cottage City.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
store, cause to be stored or permit to be stored above the ground
within the corporate limits of the Town of Cottage City any gasoline,
benzine or other inflammable liquids except in closed metallic containers
of a type approved by the proper governmental agency, and not to exceed
25 gallons in capacity, for which no permit shall be required; provided
that no more than one such container shall be stored upon any premises
or in any vehicle.
Any violation of this chapter shall be deemed a municipal infraction.
The penalty for such violation shall be a $50 fine for an initial
offense and $100 for each repeat offense. Each day any violation continues
shall be a separate offense.