[Adopted 10-4-1944 by Ord. No. 253, approved 10-4-1944]
It shall be unlawful to kindle or maintain any bonfire or other fire or to authorize any such fire to be kindled or maintained on or in any street, avenue, road, lane or public ground or upon any private lot within the limits of the Borough of West Conshohocken unless the said fire is confined to a safe, approved metal or other noncombustible container or receptacle and then only when kept under constant observation by an adult person until said fire is extinguished.
It shall be unlawful to deposit ashes, smoldering coals or embers, greasy or oily substances or other matter liable to spontaneous combustion within 10 feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition, fence, floor, sidewalk, lumber, hay, shavings, rubbish or other combustible material except in metallic containers, unless resting on the ground outside the building, and containers must be placed on noncombustible stands and in every case must be kept at least two feet from any wall or partition.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation making, using, storing or having charge or control of any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, letters, heavy straw or other combustible trash or fragments to fail, neglect or refuse at the close of each day to cause all such material which is not completely baled, stacked or in an orderly manner to be removed from the premises or stored in a noncombustible receptacle as prescribed in § 56-2 or to allow such material to obstruct the free and easy exit and entrance from and to any fire escape.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store packing boxes, barrels or similar combustible containers, except in the open, without obtaining a permit from the Chief of the Fire Department; provided, however, no permit shall be required for the storage within a manufacturing or other establishment of sufficient packing cases, boxes or similar containers to properly carry on its daily operations. Storage in the open of packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar combustible containers must not be more than 20 feet in height and must be at least 50 feet from the nearest building.
Chimneys, furnaces or smokestacks found defective shall be immediately repaired upon written or printed notice from the Chief of the Fire Department. Such notice shall contain a specific statement of danger or hazard and a recommendation of the change or changes to be made.
It shall be unlawful to burn garbage.
The Chief or Assistant Chiefs of the West Conshohocken Fire Department and the Fire Marshal of the West Conshohocken District of the County of Montgomery, or any of them, shall have full power to enforce all the provisions of this article, to approve types of receptacles or containers mentioned in this article, to make inspections and to notify any person or persons of fire hazards and to bring complaints against any person or persons, firms, associations or corporations neglecting to comply with the order or notice issued pursuant to the provisions of this article.
[Amended 6-5-1963 by Ord. No. 247, approved 6-5-1953; 7-8-1975 by Ord. No. 305; 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-14, approved 10-12-2010]
Any person violating the provisions of this article shall be subject to the provisions detailed in Chapter 53A of the Code of the Borough of West Conshohocken.