(a) The owner, manager or in control of any place of occupancy that includes but not limited to: place of assembly, business, educational institution, factory, industrial, high hazard building, institutional building, mercantile building, and residential multi-family dwelling capable of housing eight or more families or having 16 or more sleeping rooms, as defined in chapter 2 of the MSFC and who discovers a fire, smoke, heat, or gases indicating that there is a fire in such building or upon the activation of a
shall immediately notify the Fire Department.
(b) No manager or in control of any of the structures mentioned in this section shall issue any instructions directing employees not to notify the Fire Department or instructing them to delay in calling the Fire Department immediately upon the discovery of a fire, smoke, heat, or gases indicating that there is or may be a fire or upon the activation of a fire alarm signal including the activation of a fire suppression system.
(c) Each owner, manager or in control of any of the structures mentioned in this section shall post, and keep posted, in conspicuous places in the building, a notice in a form approved by the
directing employees and others to call the Fire Department immediately upon the discovery of a fire, smoke, heat, or gases indicating that there is or may be a fire or upon the activation of a fire alarm signal including the activation of a fire suppression system.
(Ord. 2023-6, passed 3-20-2023)