The Fire Inspector or any other inspector designated
by the Council or the Board of Fire Wardens shall survey each commercial
and industrial establishment, mercantile, educational and institutional
occupancy, place of assembly, hotel and multifamily house and shall
specify suitable fire detecting devices or extinguishing appliances
which shall be provided in or near boiler rooms, kitchens of restaurants,
clubs and like establishments, storage rooms involving considerable
combustible material, rooms in which hazardous manufacturing processes
are involved, repair garages and other places of a generally hazardous
nature. Such devices or appliances may consist of automatic fire alarm
systems, automatic sprinkler or water spray systems, standpipe and
hose, fixed or portable fire extinguishers of a type suitable for
the probable class of fire, suitable asbestos blankets, manual or
automatic covers or carbon dioxide or other special fire extinguishing
systems. In specially hazardous processes or storage, appliances of
more than one type or special systems may be required.
Sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire alarm
systems and other fire protective or extinguishing systems or appliances
which have been installed in compliance with any permit or order or
because of any law or ordinance shall be maintained in operative condition
at all times, and it shall be unlawful for any owner or occupant to
reduce the effectiveness of the protection so required; except this
shall not prohibit the owner or occupant from temporarily reducing
or discontinuing the protection where necessary to make tests, repairs,
alterations or additions. The Fire Inspector shall be notified before
such tests, repairs, alterations or additions are started unless the
work is to be continuous until completion.
No fire alarm or fire detection system shall
be installed in a building, other than a single-family dwelling, without
a permit.
