A. 
Permit required. No person shall kindle or maintain any bonfire or rubbish fire or authorize any such fire to be kindled or maintained on or in any public street, alley, road or other public ground without a permit or other proper authorization. During construction or demolition of buildings or structures, no waste materials or rubbish shall be disposed of by burning on the premises or in the immediate vicinity without having obtained a permit or other proper authorization.
B. 
Location restricted. No person shall kindle or maintain any bonfire or rubbish fire or authorize any such fire to be kindled or maintained on any private land unless the location is not less than fifty (50) feet from any structure and adequate provision is made to prevent fire from spreading to within fifty (50) feet of any structure or unless the fire is contained in an approved waste burner located safely not less than fifteen (15) feet from any structure.
C. 
Chief may prohibit. The Chief of the Fire Department may prohibit any or all bonfires and outdoor rubbish fires when atmospheric conditions or local circumstances make such fires hazardous.
Any person using a torch or other flame-producing device for removing paint from any building or structure shall provide one (1) approved fire extinguisher or water hose connected to the water supply on the premises where such burning is done. In all cases, the person doing the burning shall remain on the premises one (1) hour after the torch or flame-producing device has been used.
No person shall deposit hot ashes or cinders or smoldering coals or greasy or oily substances liable to spontaneous ignition into any wooden receptacles nor place the same within ten (10) feet of any combustible materials, except in metal or other noncombustible receptacles. Such receptacles, unless resting on a noncombustible floor or on the ground outside the building, shall be placed on noncombustible stands and in every case shall be kept at least two (2) feet away from any combustible wall or partition or exterior window opening.
Accumulations of wastepaper, hay, grass, straw, weeds, litter or combustible or flammable waste or rubbish of any kind shall not be permitted to remain upon any roof or in any court, yard, vacant lot or open space. All weeds, grass, vines or other growth, when same endangers property or is liable to be fired, shall be cut down and removed by the owner or occupant of the property.
No person making, using, storing or having in charge or under his control any shavings, excelsior, rubbish sacks, bags, litter, hay, straw or combustible waste materials shall fail or neglect 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 building or stored in suitable vaults or in metal or metal-lined, covered receptacles or bins. The Chief of the Fire Department shall 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.
A. 
Permit required. No person shall store in any building or upon any premises in excess of two thousand five hundred (2,500) cubic feet gross volume of combustible empty packing cases, boxes, barrels or similar containers, rubber tires or baled cotton, rubber or cork, or other similarly combustible material, without a permit.
B. 
Storage requirements. Storage in buildings shall be orderly, shall not be within two (2) feet of the ceiling and shall not be so located as to endanger exit from the building. Storage in the open shall not be more than twenty (20) feet in height, shall be so located with respect to adjacent buildings as not to constitute a hazard and shall be compact and orderly.
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 flameproofed. 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 person shall take an open flame or light into any building, barn, vessel, boat or any 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.
B. 
No heating or lighting apparatus or equipment capable of igniting flammable materials of the types stored or handled shall be used in the storage area of any warehouse storing rags, excelsior, hair or other highly flammable or combustible material nor in the work areas of any shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair or renovating of mattresses or bedding nor in the work areas of any establishment used for the upholstering of furniture.
C. 
No person shall kindle a fire upon the land of another without permission of the owner thereof or his agent.
A. 
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices for conveying smoke or hot gases to the outer air and the stoves, furnaces, restaurant-type cooking equipment, incinerators, fire boxes 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 the burning of 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. 
Definition. "Smoking" shall mean and include the carrying of a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette or tobacco in any form.
B. 
Chief to designate areas where smoking is prohibited. Where conditions are such as to make smoking a hazard in any areas of piers, wharves, warehouses, stores, industrial plants, institutions, places of assembly and in open spaces where combustible materials are stored or handled, the Chief of the Fire Department is empowered and authorized to order the owner or occupant in writing to post "no smoking" signs in each building, structure, room or place in which smoking shall be prohibited. The Chief of the Fire Department shall designate specific safe locations, if necessary, in any building, structure or place in which smoking may be permitted.
C. 
"No smoking" signs. "No smoking" signs of approved sized lettering and location required in accordance with Subsection B of this section shall read "By Order of the Fire Chief." It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any legally required "no smoking" sign or to smoke in any place where such signs are posted.