No person shall, by outcries, ringing of bells,
sounding of alarm or otherwise, raise a false alarm of fire.
No person making, using, storing or having charge
or control of any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter,
hay, straw or combustible trash, waste or fragments shall fail, neglect
or refuse 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 premises or stored in suitable vaults or in metal or metal-lined
covered receptacles or bins. The Fire Chief may 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.
The storage of empty packing cases, boxes, barrels
or other similar combustible containers is forbidden, except in the
open, without permission from the 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.
Highly flammable materials, such as cotton batting,
straw, dry vines, leaves, trees, artificial flowers or shrubbery and
foam plastic materials, shall not be used for decorative purposes
in show windows or other parts of mercantile and institutional occupancies
unless flameproof. Electric light bulbs in mercantile and institutional
occupancies shall not be decorated with paper or other combustible
materials unless such materials shall first have been rendered flameproof.
Christmas trees shall be stored as directed
by the Fire Chief to avoid injury to life or property by fire.
No radio or television 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 a serious obstruction to the Fire
Department.