[Adopted 2-22-1971 by L.L. No. 1-1971
as Ch. 62, Art. IV, of the 1971 Code]
A.Â
No person shall kindle, maintain, authorize or permit
any bonfire or other open fire on or in any street, alley, road, land or public
grounds or upon any private lot where such fire may endanger other property.
B.Â
No person shall deposit hot ashes, smoldering coals or
embers, greasy or oily substances or other materials liable to create spontaneous
ignition, within 10 feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition, fence,
floor, sidewalk, lumber, hay, shavings, rubbish or other combustible materials,
except in metallic or other noncombustible receptacles. Such receptacles,
unless resting on a noncombustible floor or on the ground outside the building,
must be placed two feet away from any combustible wall or partition and from
under any stairs, stairways or fire escapes.
A.Â
The storage of empty packing cases, boxes, barrels or
other similar combustible containers is forbidden except in the open and except
such as may be required by a manufacturer, merchant or other establishment
to properly carry on its operations, which storage shall be orderly and not
so located as to endanger exits from the building. All storage in the open,
of packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar combustible containers,
shall be in a compact and orderly manner.
B.Â
The storage of all merchandise or raw materials shall
be in a compact and orderly manner so as to leave an aisle or aisles from
the front to the rear of the building at least three feet wide.
No person making, using, storing or having charge of 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 or 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 provided with a fusible
link.
