[1]
Editor's Note: On 8-5-1980 the Board of Trustees
adopted L.L. No. 13-1980, which read as follows:
"Pursuant to § 4-412(9)(b) of the
Village Law, the Village be authorized to enter into an agreement
with the Hempstead Volunteer Fire Department for the providing of
certain firemanic services."
A.
Authority. In addition to the powers of the Building
Department to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the Chief of
the Fire Department and any members of the Fire Department designated
by him as inspectors may, at any reasonable hour, enter any building
or premises for the purpose of making any inspection which may be
deemed necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter, provided
such inspection shall be made pursuant to the rules and regulations
of the Fire Department and of the Board of Trustees.
B.
Powers of inspectors. Those persons described as inspectors in Subsection A above shall be empowered to enter any building, structure or premises, whether vacant or occupied, for the purposes of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions likely to cause fire or any violations of ordinances, local laws, statutes or regulations relating to fire hazards.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or person
having charge or control of any vacant building or structure to permit
same to remain in a condition constituting a fire hazard or accessible
to children or to permit the dumping or accumulation of rubbish at
or about such premises.
Whenever such officer or inspector shall find
a building, structure or premises which constitutes a fire hazard
or is likely to interfere with the Fire Department operations or likely
to interfere with the egress of occupants of the premises in case
of fire, he shall order the correction of such conditions or the removal
of such structure as hereinafter provided.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 65-4,
Service of notice of hazardous condition; 65-5, Contents of notice,
and 65-6, Appeal by recipient of notice, were deleted 5-16-1989 by
L.L. No. 2-1989.
[Added 3-16-2022 by L.L. No. 3-2022]
All fire department siamese connections and/or the protective
covers shall be color coded as follows:
Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, where it reasonably appears that there is imminent danger to the life or safety of any person unless a building, structure or premises is immediately made safe from any potential fire hazard or other violation described in § 65-3, the Superintendent of the Building Department shall be empowered to immediately cause the correction of any such condition. The cost of same shall be assessed against and collected from the real property upon which the corrective action was performed. Such cost shall be a lien upon the real estate affected, and the amount so assessed and levied shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes.
No person shall place or permit to be placed
or remain in or upon any building, structure, courtyard, vacant lot,
open space or alley any accumulation of wastepaper, sawdust, hay,
grass, straw, weeds, litter, boxes, barrels, cartons or any combustible
or flammable waste or rubbish of any kind. It shall not be deemed
a violation of this section to accumulate rubbish placed in suitable
containers, for a reasonable time, to permit the collection thereof
by the Department of Sanitation, provided same is otherwise in accord
with the requirements of this Code.
No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited
hot ashes, smoldering coals or embers, greasy or oily substances or
other materials liable to create spontaneous ignition, except in metallic
or other noncombustible receptacles. Such receptacles shall be placed
at least two feet away from any combustible material.
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Editor's Note: Former § 65-10, Outdoor
storage of vehicles and equipment, as amended 2-25-1991 by L.L. No.
3-1991, was repealed 9-3-1991 by L.L. No. 10-1991.
Any person making, using, storing or having
control of any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter,
hay, straw or combustible trash, waste or fragments shall, at the
close of each day, cause all such material which is not completely
baled or stacked in an orderly and safe manner to be removed from
the premises or stored in suitable vaults or in metal or metal-lined
covered receptacles or bins.
The storage of empty packing cases, boxes, barrels
or other similar combustible containers is forbidden, except such
as may be required by a manufacturer, merchant or other commercial
establishment to properly carry on its operations, which storage shall
be orderly and safe and not be so located as to endanger egress from
the building.
Whenever an officer or inspector of the Village
shall find open to trespass any building or structure or shall find
upon any premises or other place combustible or explosive material
or an accumulation of rubbish, wastepaper, boxes, shavings, debris
or merchandise or any other flammable material, or shall find any
obstruction to or on fire escapes, aisles, stairs, passageways, exits,
doors or windows likely to interfere with the Fire Department in case
of fire or any emergency or likely to interfere with egress of occupants
of premises in case of fire or any emergency, or any condition violative
of any provision of this chapter, he shall order correction of such
condition or removal of such material or obstruction and the existence
of such condition shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
The placing or storing of any articles, chattels,
materials or debris within a boiler room or meter room in a multiple
residence, business or industrial building or structure is hereby
prohibited.
Except for open fires used for preparing food
for human consumption, campfires or fires for other recreational purposes,
provided that such fires do not create a nuisance, no person shall
burn or cause to be burned out of doors any matter, including but
not limited to trash, rubbish, leaves, garbage, grass, refuse, trees,
automobiles, rubber, railroad ties, materials resulting from the demolition,
wrecking or construction of buildings, materials for salvage purposes
or other wastes, so as to cause the emission of any contaminant into
the atmosphere.
Cotton batting, straw, dry vines, leaves, trees,
celluloid, paper or other readily flammable materials shall not be
used for decorative purposes in show windows, stores or any place
of assembly unless such materials shall have first been treated and
rendered flameproof; provided, however, that nothing in this section
shall be held to prohibit the display of salable goods permitted and
offered for sale in stores.
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices
for conveying smoke or hot gases to the outer air and the stoves,
furnaces, fireboxes, or boilers to which they are connected shall
be maintained in such manner as not to endanger property and in accordance
with the codes, ordinances and laws of the Village.
[Added 1-15-2008 by L.L. No. 1-2008]
A.
No wood, pellet or gas burning stove shall be installed
in the Village without a permit issued by the Village Building Department.
B.
Upon installation, no wood, pellet or gas burning
stove shall be maintained in the Village without a certificate of
alteration issued by the Village Building Department.
No heating device with an open flame and no
artificial lighting system other than electric lights shall be used
in any warehouse used 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 renovation of mattresses or bedding;
nor in any establishment for the upholstery of furniture; nor in any
manufacturing establishment using or manufacturing any flammable material.
All trap doors in any factory or building used
for storage purposes shall be closed at the completion of the business
of each day. Every trap door and outside window in any such building
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 to be so placed as to be easily
readable from the outside of the building. Every trap door, 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 the purpose evident at a
glance, shall be similarly marked with the warning word SHAFTWAY so
placed to be easily visible to anyone approaching the shaftway from
the interior of the building. Any open shaftway shall be properly
protected by a suitable guardrail at the close of the business day.
Where exterior gas shutoffs have been installed,
the occupant of the premises or, if the premises are unoccupied, the
owner of the premises served by the gas line governed by such shutoff
shall maintain the shutoff free from any covering of soil, concrete
or any other material which conceals the shutoff or interferes with
its accessibility.
In all gasoline service stations and in all
public or private garages having facilities for more than four vehicles,
and in any existing or hereafter established restaurant, banquet hall,
cafeteria, coffee shop, diner or any other place where food is cooked,
except private residences where food is cooked for service to the
family who occupies the premises, there shall be installed and properly
maintained at least one fifteen-pound carbon dioxide fire extinguisher,
or its equal, in an accessible location. Such extinguisher shall be
installed on a wall-mount type bracket.
A.
Treatment required. No tent exceeding 20 feet in any
dimension nor any tent used or intended for use for assembly of any
character shall be erected or so used unless it shall have been treated
to avoid the spread or propagation of flame so as to meet the minimum
standards for resistance to fire prescribed in Federal Specifications
CCC-D-746 or any amendment thereto for fire-, water- and weather-resistant
cotton duck, when tested new or renewed, in accordance with generally
accepted good practice and approved for the use of all departments
and establishments of the United States government. Subsequent to
such treatment, no process may be used which increases its flammability.
B.
Certificate of approval required. No such tent shall
be erected or used unless a certificate of approval shall first be
issued by the County Fire Marshal upon presentation of satisfactory
evidence of compliance with the foregoing provisions.
C.
In addition, no such tent shall be erected or used
until a permit has been issued by the Superintendent of the Building
Department pursuant to compliance with rules and regulations of the
Building Department. The permit fee shall be $25.
A.
Permit required. No person shall burn or cause to
be burned any sulfur candle or any material for the purpose of fumigating
or destroying germs, vermin, moths or any living thing or organism
unless such person shall have first received a permit for such purpose
from the Village Clerk not less than 48 hours prior to such fumigation.
B.
Notice to be posted. The permittee shall post a notice
at each exit of any building being so fumigated prior to such fumigation.
The notice shall be supplied by the Village Clerk.
C.
Fire Chief to be notified. The permittee shall notify
the Chief of the Fire Department of the time and place of such fumigation.
Such notice shall be given in writing to the Chief or his designated
representative at least 24 hours prior to such fumigation.
