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Alr1 CRDINAIITCE ESTABLIBrHING A BUtEAU ()F FIRE PREVENTION FCR THE CITY OF PARIS, FCR
THE PUi.P06E UF FIRE PRSVENTION, Ul'ON THE TFRNS AND CONDITIONS HEREINAFTER. MENTIONID,
PRO'vIDING FCR THE REGULATION THEREOF, PROVIDING FOR 4FFICERS THEREFCR, AND DEFINING
THEIR POWER.S AND DUTIES, AAID PRCJVIDING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH AIITHCRITY TO REGtTLATE
THE STCRAGE AND tSE OF,,FLAMMABLE, AND E%PLOSNE MATE?.IALS.. AND DECLAKING AN EMEN.GENCY.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Parias
Section 1. A Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the City oP
Paria, ia hereby established xhich shall be operated under the auperviaion oP the Chief
oP the Fire Department.
The Chief of the Fire Department shall deaignete an officer of the Fire Department
as Fire Marshal of the Buresu of Fire Prevention, F►ho shall hold thie oPPiee at the
pleasure of the Chief of the Fire Department.
The Chief of the Fire Department msy also deaignate auch number og Aasiatant
Fire Mnrahals as shall Prom time to time be authorized by the City Council.
3ECTION 2. It shall ba the duty of the officers of the Bureau oP Fire Prevantioa
to enforce all lawe and ordinances of the State, County and City, covering the f ollowl.ng:
1. The preventian of f irea;
2. The storage and use of exploaives and Plammablea;
3. The installation and maintenance of automatic and other fire alarm
systezns, and fire extinguishing equipment;
4. The maintenance and regulation of fire escapes;
5. The meane and adequacy of exit in case of fire, From factories, schools,
hotela, lodging hou$es, asylums, hospitala, churches, halls, theatres,
amphitheatres, and all other places in which numbera of peraons work,
live or congregate, From time to time, for ar~y pur;oose;
6. The investigation of the cause, origin, anci circumstances of Piree.
They shall have auch other powere and perform such other d uties as are set forth
in other seetions of this ordinance, and a9 may be conferred and imposed from time to
time by law. The Ghief of the Fire Department may delegate any of his porere or duties
under this ordinance to the Fire Marahal.
SECTION 3. It shall be the d uty of the ChieF of the Fire Depsrtment to innestigate
and to recommend to the city council such additional ordinances, or amendments to ex-
iating ordinances, aa he may ddem necessary for safeguarding life and proparty against
fire.
SECTIUN 4. The Chief of the Fire Depar.tmsnt shall prepare instruetiona for the
Fire Marshal and. his Assisteatevand forms for their use in the reports required by
this ordinance.
SECTION 5. The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall investigate the cause, origin
and cireumstances of every f ire oecurting in the city by which property haa been
destroyad or damaged and, ao far as poaeible, shall determine whether the Pire ia the
result of careleeeness or design. Such inveatigationa shall begin immediately upon
the oceurrence oP aueh a fire, by the Assiatant in whose district the £ire occura,,
and if it appeara to the officer making such an inveatigation, that such fire is of
auapicioua origin, the ChieP of the Fire Department shall be immedistely notified of
the fact; ha shall take charge imanadiately of the phyaical evidence, shall notify the
pr.oper authoritias designated by lau to puraue the investigation of Such mattera, and
shall further coop-rate Wi.th the authoritisa in the collection of evidence and in the
proaecution of the case. Ebery fire shall be reported in writing to the Bureau of
Fire Prevention within two days after the occurrence of the same, by the officer ia
whose jrarisdietion such a fire has occurred. Such report shall be in such Porm aa
shall be prescribed by the Chief of the Fire Depar.tment, and shall eontai n a statement
of all Pacta relating to the cauge, origin snd circumstances of 9uch Pire, the extent
of the damage thereof, and the insuranee upon such property, and such other information
ga may be required.
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3ECTIUN 6. Before licenass may be iasued for the keeping, atorage, use,
manufaeture, aale, handling, tranaportation or other diaposition of highly Plammnble
materisle ancl rubbiah, crude petroleum or any of ita groducte, gun or bla ating
powc3er, d,ynamite, or explosives of any kind, incluciing firebrorke, fire crackera, and
signaling e xplosives, the Chief of the Fire Department, the Fire Marshal, or hie
Ae9ietants ahall inepect and aporove the receptacles, vehiclea, buileiings or storage
places to be used for any such purposes.
SECTION 7. The Chief of the Fire Department, Fire Marshal or an Asaietant
apeeiallq deaignated thereto ahall inspect, as often as may be neeeesary, but not
less than four timas a year, all specially hazardous manufacturing proceaset, atarages
or installations of acetylene or other gasea, chemicals, oils, e xplosives and flam-
mabZe materials, all interior fire alarins and sutomatic aprinkler eyateme, and such
other haaards or applianees as the Chief of the Fire Department ehall desigrate, and
shall make such ordera as may be necessarp for the enforcement of the lawe and ordi-
nances governing the same and f or saPeguarding of life and property from f ire.
3ECTIUN 8. It ahall be the d uty of the Chief of the Fire Department to inspect
or cata$e to be inspected by the Bureau of Fire Preveation, or by the Fire Department
ofPicere and members, as oPten as may be necessary, but not less than twice a year in
outlying disteicta and four timea a yaar in the closely built portione oP the city
all huildings, p.remises and public thoroughfarea eaccept the interiora oP privete
dwellinga, Por the purpose of aseertaining and causing to be correeted any conditione
liable to cause Pire, or any violationa of the pronieiona or intent of arV ordinance
of the eity aFfeeting the fire haaerd.
Whenever ar~y : ssreh,sl, , ae defined above, ahall find in ary building, or upon
sny premisea or other place, combustible or explosive matter or dangeroue accumula-
tions of rubbieh or unneceesary aeeumulation of wsste paper, boxes, shavings, or anq
highly flebmable naterials especially liable to fire, and tahich is so situated as to
endanger property; or shall f ind obstrwctions to or on fire escapes, atairs, passage-
ways, doors or windows, liable to interfere With the operations of the Fire Department
or egreas of occupanta in case oP fire, he shall order the same to be remaved or re-
medied, and such order shall forthwith be complied with bq the owner or occupant of
such premiees or buildi.ngs, subject to appeal within twenty-four hours to the Chief
of the Fire Department, ae provided in Section 9 oP thia ordinance.
Anpr owner or oceupant failing to comply with such order Within a reaeonabla
pe.riod aPter the service of the 8aid order, shall be liabla to a penaltq as hereinafter
proeided.
The service of any such order may be made upon the xcupant of the premisee to
Whom it is directed, either by delivering e copy of aame to such occupant peraonally
or by delivering the qame to end leaving it with ar{q pereon in charge of the laemieea.,
or in case no such person ia fownd upon the premises, by affixl.ng a copy thereof in a
conspicuous place on the doar to the entrance of the said premises. Whenever it map
be neceesa.ry to serve a wch an order upon the owner of premiees, such order may be
aerved aither by delivering to and leaving with the said pereon a eo py of the said
order, or, if such owner is abaent from the juriediction of the officer making the
order, by mailing such copy to the owner's laet known post ofPice addreaa.
SECTION 9. The Chief of the Fire Department or inapectors of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention, upoa the complaint of ary person or whenever he or they ehall deem it
naceesaryp shall inspect all buildings and premises Within their furiediation. When-
ever any of said officers shall find anq buildings or othar strueture whieh, Por want
of repairs, laek of or insufficient fire escapea, automatic or other f ire alarm
apperatus or fire extinguishing equipment or by reaaon of age or dilapidated condition,
or from any other cauee, is especislly lieble to fire, and which is so situatad as to
endanger othgr property or the occupanta thereof, and whenenpr such officer shall find
in any building combustible or explosvie matter or flammable conditions dangerous to
the safety of such building or the oceupants thereof, he or they ahall order such
dangerous conditions or materials to be removed or remedied and such order shall forth-
with be eomplied with by the owner or occupant of such premiees or building. If
such order is aade by the Flxe Mirshal or any of his Asei9tant Fire Marshals, such
oWner or occupant may within twenty-four houra apoeal to the ChisP of the Fire Depart-
ment, who ehall, within five daye, reviA w such order and £ile his decision thereon, and
unleas by his authority the order is revoked or modifisd it shall remain in full f orce
and be complied with within the time fixed in said ordAr or @eciaf on oP the Chief of
the Fire Department.
Provided, however, that ary such otirner or occupant may, within five days after
the making or affirminq of any such ordar by the Chief of the Fira Departmgnt, Pile
hi$ petition vith the ftnicipal Court, praying a review oP such order and it shall be
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the duty of eueh oourt to hear the sa~e within not less than five daye nor more than
ten daye Prom the time thQ petition ia filed, and to make eueh order in the premises
aa right and justice may require, and ewch deciaion shall be final. Sueh pnrties eo
nppealiag to the Municipal Court shall Pile ►rith said court within tWO days a bond in
an amount bd be fixed by the court, to be approved by the court, conditioned to pay
all the coats of auch appeal in case auch appellant fsils to austaitt his appeal or the
ssme be diemiaeed for ax~q cauee.
SECTION 10. The Chief of the Fire Department, the Fire Marahal, or arq Aaeistant
Fire Marshal ma,y, at all reasonable houra, enter ary building or premises witl7in hia
jurisdiction for tho purpoee of making any inspection or investigation rlhich, under
the provisions of this ordinance, he or they may deem necessary, tv be made.
SECTION 11. The City Attorney, upon requeat of the Buresu of Fire Freventionp
shall aaeiat the Marshals in the investigation of any fire Which, in their opiniott,
is of auspicious origin.
SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to require
teachera of public, private, and paroehial achools and educational institutiona to
have one fire drill eaeh month and to keep all doors and e xits unlocked during school
hours.
SECTION 13. The Chief of the Fire DeparLment shall keep, in the office of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention, a record of all firee and oP all the facte eoneerning
the eame, ineluding statiatica as to the e xtent of sueh firea and the damage caused
therebg, and whether sueh loeses were covered by inairance, and if eo, ia what amount.
Such record shall he made daily from the reporta made by the Marshala under tlxe pro-
vision of this ordinance. All such records shall be public.
SECTIUN 14. The annual report of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be made
on or before the 31st day af March, and tranamitted to the Mayor, it shall contain
all proceedinga under this ordinance, with such statiatics as the Chief of the Fire
Department may w].ah to include therein; the Chief of the Fire Department shall also
recommend ary amendmente to the ordinance which, in his judgment, shall be desirable.
SECTION 15. Ary person or parsons, firm or corporation, violating any of tha
proviaiona of thie ordinance, or neglecting to comply with arW order isstaed ptmsuant
to any section thereof, shall be guilty o£ a misdemeanor and upon com►iction shall
forPeit and pay a Pine of not more than twenty-Pive dollare for each offense, ancj in
addition thereto a Pine of not more than twentq-five dollars f or each day that aaid
violation is permitt,ed to exiat beyond a ressansble period after service as provided
in eaid Section, and in dePault o£ peyment shall be imprieoned not to e7eceed th irty
daye for each offense.
SECTIUN 16. Al1 ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with ary of the
provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 17. The fact that there ia an immediate need far the enforcement of the
rules, regulatione, powere and dutiea of thia act, creats an emergency Whic h neeeas-
itatea a susspeneion of the rulPe and charter proviaione, requiring an ordinance be
read for three several meetings, and the eubmission thereof to a committee, be aus-
pended, and eaid public emergency is hereby decalred and tha eame ie aecardingly
done, and the ordinanee shall talce effect from anci after its peasage.
Ayes:.~-
Nayee: O
Nathan J. Bell Jr., Mayor
Attest: ~~~-~-•d't.c?~,~
H. B. Crorr, City Secretary
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