No person shall, by outcries, ringing of bells,
sounding of alarm or otherwise, raise a false alarm of fire.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 119-14,
Prohibited accumulations; vegetation, which immediately followed this
section, was deleted 5-23-2000 by Ord. No. 00-19.
A.
Except as authorized by Subsection B hereof, there shall be no open burning of any combustible materials unless permission has been granted by the Fire Chief or his or her duly designated representative, and then such burning shall be conducted in the manner and at the time and place specified by him.
B.
An occupant of premises may burn leaves, diseased
plant life or garden trimmings which grew on such premises, provided
that such burning takes place:
(1)
Only during daylight hours.
(2)
Under the continuous supervision of a competent adult
person who shall completely extinguish the fire when he or she leaves
the immediate scene.
(3)
When atmospheric conditions are such that such burning
will not be unsafe or will not create a nuisance.
(4)
Off the paved area of the street.
(5)
Away from overhanging branches of any tree.
(6)
At least 50 feet away from any structure, or where
the fire is contained in an approved metal waste burner with the top
closed when the burning is being done, in a safe position not less
than 15 feet away from any structure.
(7)
Where fire prevention safeguards, such as fire extinguishers
or a garden hose of sufficient length charged with water, are provided
to ensure protection against the fire spreading to within 50 feet
of any structure.
C.
The Fire Chief or his or her duly designated representative
may order any fires, including any fire theretofore specifically authorized
by him, immediately extinguished when, in his or her opinion, such
fire is or may become hazardous to persons or property or a nuisance
to neighboring residents.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 119-16,
Fire-resistant receptacles for certain combustibles, which immediately
followed this section, was deleted 5-23-2000 by Ord. No. 00-19.
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.
A.
No heating apparatus with an open flame and no artificial
lighting system other than incandescent electric lights shall be used
in any warehouse for the storage of rags, excelsior, hair or other
flammable or combustible material, nor in any shop or factory used
for the manufacture, repair or renovating of mattresses or bedding,
nor in any establishment for the upholstering of furniture.
B.
No person shall take an open flame into any building
or 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.
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 or 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.
A.
All trapdoors, except those which are automatic in
their operation, in any factory building or buildings used for storage,
shall be closed at the completion of the business of each day.
B.
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 "shaftway" in red
letters at least six inches high on a white background. Such warning
sign shall 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 partition
surrounding the shaftway is of such distinctive nature as to make
its purpose evident at a glance, shall be similarly marked with the
warning "SHAFTWAY" so placed as to be easily visible to anyone approaching
the shaftway from the interior of the building.
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.[1]
