[Amended 6-22-1982 by L.L. No. 9-1982; 9-25-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990; 1-23-1996 by L.L. No. 1-1996; 6-19-2007 by L.L. No. 10-2007]
A. 
Definition. "Outdoor fires" include all nonaccidental fires burning, smoldering or producing smoke outdoors, with the exception of fires used to cook food in approved and/or recognized grills or stoves. See Subsection D for restrictions for multiple dwellings.
B. 
Outdoor fires which, due to the emission of smoke or odor, are offensive or objectionable, or cause the unnecessary dispatching of the Fire Department, or which are conducted without a permit from the Rockland County Health Department and the Chief Fire Safety Inspector, are prohibited. Live burn drills conducted by a Fire Department and special event ceremonial fires require prior approval from the Rockland County Health Department and a permit from the Chief Fire Safety Inspector.
C. 
Any person, firm or corporation who or which starts, maintains or has control over an objectionable or offensive outdoor fire and/or an outdoor fire which leads to the unnecessary dispatching of the Fire Department, or a fire without the required permits as described in Subsection B above is in violation of this section.
D. 
The use and storage of charcoal burners and other open-flame cooking devices is prohibited within 10 feet of a building or within 10 feet of any combustible construction, including attached decks of any building used as a multiple dwelling except where buildings, balconies and decks are protected by an automatic sprinkler system. For the purposes of this section, a multiple dwelling is any building with three or more dwelling units, regardless of type of ownership or existing fire separations. This category incudes but is not limited to apartment houses, nursing homes, senior citizen complexes, townhouses, condominiums and attached single-family dwellings. (See Section 308.7 of the Fire Code of New York State.)
[Amended 1-18-2011 by L.L. No. 1-2011]
E. 
Electric grills are permitted subject to compliance with the conditions and requirements of the manufacturer, the requirements of the National Electric Code and, if an extension cord is used, Chapter 605.5 of the Fire Code of New York State.
[Added 1-18-2011 by L.L. No. 1-2011]
[Amended 9-25-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990]
It shall be prohibited to remove paint or thaw frozen pipes in or on structures with a torch or any other flame-producing device. Heat-producing devices other than open-flame devices are permissible. However, the person or persons removing the paint or thawing the pipes, or their responsible agent, shall remain in view of this immediate area at all times and for one hour after using the heat-producing devices.
No person shall deposit hot ashes or cinders or smoldering coals or greasy or oily substances liable to spontaneous ignition into any wooden receptacle, or place the same within 10 feet of any combustible materials except in metal or other noncombustible receptacles. Such receptacles, unless resting on a noncombustible floor or on the ground outside the building, shall be placed on noncombustible stands, and in every case shall be kept at least two feet away from any combustible wall or partition or exterior window opening.
Accumulations of wastepaper, hay, grass, straw, weeds, litter or combustible or flammable waste or rubbish of any kind shall not be permitted to remain upon any roof or in any court, yard, vacant lot or open space. All weeds, grass, vines or other growth, when the same endangers property or is liable to be fired, shall be cut down and removed by the owner or occupant of the property.
[Amended 12-31-1996 by L.L. No. 18-1996]
No person making, using, storing or having in charge or under his control any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter, hay, straw or combustible waste materials shall fail or neglect at the close of each day to cause all such material which is not compactly baled and stacked in an orderly manner to be removed from the buildings or stored in suitable vaults or in metal or metal-lined covered receptacles or bins. The Chief Fire Safety Inspector shall require suitable baling presses to be installed in stores, apartment buildings, factories and similar places where accumulations of paper and waste materials are not removed at least every second day.[1]
[1]
Former § 143-93, Storage of readily combustible materials, as amended, which immediately followed, was repealed 3-16-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010. This local law also redesignated former § 143-94 through § 143-111 as § 143-68 through § 143-85, respectively.
[Amended 6-13-1989 by L.L. No. 2-1989]
It shall be prohibited to use combustible decorations in retail, mercantile and institutional occupancies, unless the premises is protected with an automatic sprinkler system. Electrical light bulbs shall not be decorated with combustible materials.
A. 
No person shall take an open flame or light into any building, barn, vessel, boat or any other place where highly flammable, combustible or explosive material is kept, unless such light or flame shall be well secured in a glass globe, wire mesh cage or similar approved device.
B. 
No heating or lighting apparatus or equipment capable of igniting flammable materials of the types stored or handled shall be used in the storage area of any warehouse storing rags, excelsior, hair or other highly flammable or combustible material; nor in the work area of any shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair or renovating of mattresses or bedding; nor in the work areas of any establishment used for the upholstering of furniture.
A. 
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices for conveying smoke or hot gases to the outer air, and the stoves, furnaces, incinerators, fireboxes or boilers to which they are connected, shall be constructed and maintained in such a manner as not to create a hazardous condition.
B. 
Commercial- and industrial-type incinerators used for burning of rubbish or other readily combustible solid waste material and flue-fed incinerators shall be provided with approved spark arresters or other effective means for arresting sparks and fly particles.