Except out of doors, the storage of empty packing cases, boxes,
barrels or other similar combustible containers is forbidden without
permission from the Fire Chief. Permission shall not be required for
the storage within a manufacturing or other establishment of sufficient
packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar containers to properly
carry on its operations, but such storage shall be orderly and not
so located as to endanger exit from the building. Storage in the open
of packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar combustible containers
shall not be more than 20 feet in height and shall be at least 50
feet from the nearest building. All such storage shall be in a compact
and orderly manner.
Cotton batting, straw, dry vines, leaves, trees, celluloid or
other highly flammable materials shall not be used for decorative
purposes in show windows, stores or places of public assembly without
permission from the Fire Chief; provided, however, that nothing in
this section shall be held to prohibit the display of salable goods
permitted and offered for sale in stores. Electric light bulbs in
stores or public halls shall not be decorated with paper or other
combustible materials unless such materials shall first have been
rendered flameproof.
All trapdoors, except those which are automatic in their operations,
in any factory building or buildings used for storage shall be closed
at the completion of the business of each day. Every outside window
in a building used for manufacturing purposes or for storage which
opens directly on any hoistway or other vertical means of communication
between two or more floors in such building shall be plainly marked
with the word "shaft-way" in red letters at least six inches high
on a white background, such warning sign to be so placed as to be
easily discernible from the outside of the building. Every door or
window opening on such shaftway from the interior of the building,
unless the construction of the partitions surrounding the shaftway
is of such distinctive nature as to make its purpose evident at a
glance, shall be similarly marked with the warning word "shaftway"
so placed as to be easily visible to any one approaching the shaftway
from the interior of the building.
Christmas trees shall be stored as directed by the Fire Chief
and the Building Official to avoid injury to life or property by fire.
Meter rooms shall be kept free and clear to the satisfaction
of the Fire Chief or Building Official.
No radio antenna or other wire suspended over a flat roof shall
be erected less than eight feet clear above the roof nor so as to
become an obstruction in the fighting of fires.
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices for conveying smoke
or hot gases to the outer air and the stoves, furnaces, fire boxes
or boilers to which they are connected shall be constructed and maintained
in such a manner as not to endanger adjacent property.