9-1-6: FIRE SAFETY PROVISIONS 1 :
   A.   Depositories For Ashes: All depositories for ashes, within or without the fire limits, shall be built of brick or other fireproof material, when not at least twenty five feet (25') distant from any combustible material or building. (1944 Code § 318)
   B.   Depositing Combustible Materials: No person shall, without the consent in writing of the mayor or an order of the city council, throw, place, pile or deposit within the fire limits of city, any wood, lumber, timber, hay, straw or other combustible material, so as to endanger any building by the burning thereof; and any person so offending shall be subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code for every offense, and a further sum for every twenty four (24) hours such person allows the same to remain after notice to remove the same by the chief of police or mayor, to be recovered as other penalties herein provided. (1944 Code § 322; amd. 1997 Code)
   C.   Endangering Buildings Or Property Of Others; Storage Of Materials: No person shall, within the fire limits of the city, place, pile or throw any wood, lumber, timber, hay, straw or other combustible material on any lot, street or alley, or on such person's own premises, contiguous to and so as to endanger the buildings or property of any other person, and the person so offending shall be considered and adjudged guilty of nuisance, and shall be subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code for each day such person shall allow the same to remain, after notice by the chief of police, or other person, to remove or abate the same. (1944 Code § 323; amd. 1997 Code)
   D.   Kindling Fires In Temporary Buildings: No person shall build, make or kindle any fire in any plank or other temporary shed, unless such building or shed shall have therein a stone chimney or vault in which to make or kindle such fire, and every person so offending shall be subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code for each and every offense. (1944 Code § 324; amd. 1997 Code)

 

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1. See also title 4, chapter 2 of this code.