[HISTORY: Adopted by the Commission of the Town of Cottage City as Ch. 7 of the 2007 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
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.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell any firecrackers, fireworks, rockets, squibs, explosives or any similar article in the Town of Cottage City.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot or discharge, or cause to be shot or discharged, or aid or abet in the shooting or discharging of any firecracker, fireworks or other explosives within the 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.