It shall be unlawful for any person to start a fire or allow any person to start a fire to any refuse, papers, shavings, weeds, brush grass, leaves or other combustible material or to make any fire of any description in the open air in the corporate limits of the city, except as further provided in this section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a fire may be built in any outdoor stove, oven, fireplace, barbeque pit, potable burner or other similar self-contained structure, for the purposes of cooking food or generating heat; provided, that any such fire so started shall be extinguished and made safe before the persons starting or maintaining such fire shall leave the place where the fire was started.
(Ord. 448; Code 2015)