1503.13 CAUSING FIRE THROUGH NEGLIGENCE IN PLACES OF ASSEMBLY.

   (a)   No person shall, in any hotel, motel, rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, tenement house, convalescent home, hospital, child care facility or similar place of abode, by any means whatsoever, through carelessness, neglect or negligence, set fire to or cause the burning of any bedding, furniture, rug, curtain, drape or other household furnishing or fitting or any other part of such buildings or premises or their contents in such a manner as to endanger the safety to any person or property.

   (b)   It shall be the duty of the manager, owner or lessee of any hotel or motel to post the provisions of this section in a conspicuous place in each room occupied by guests in such hotel or motel. It shall be the duty of the manager, owner or lessee of any rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, tenement house, convalescent home, hospital, child care facility or similar place of abode, to post the provisions of this section in a conspicuous place upon such premises.

   (c)   It shall be the duty of a manager, owner or lessee, of an employee of any manager, owner or lessee, of an occupant and of any person in direct control of rooming houses, apartments, hotels, motels, rest homes, department stores, theaters, auditoriums and other public places of assembly, upon the discovery of any unfriendly fire or upon receiving information that there is an unfriendly fire on the premises, immediately, and with all reasonable dispatch and diligence, to call or notify the Division of Fire concerning such fire and to spread an alarm.
(Ord. 2004-206. Passed 12-21-04.)