(A) The members of the Fire Department shall have such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed by law or by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Chief, and it shall be their duty to obey the command of their superior officer while in the performance of duty.
(B) It shall be the function and duty of the Fire Department and every officer and member thereof to extinguish accidental or destructive fires from whatever cause or source and to prevent the spread or occurrence of such fires.
(C) It shall be the duty of all officers and members of the Fire Department and all police officers of the city to see that the provisions of this chapter are enforced and to arrest on view any person who shall be found violating any of the provisions of this chapter or who shall hinder, resist or refuse to obey any such officer or member in the discharge of his or her duty, and to that end all such officers and members are vested with the usual power and authority of police officers.
(D) Officers and members of the Fire Department are authorized to go outside the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of rendering aid to other fire departments, or of extinguishing fires or rendering aid in the case of accidents. Provided, that the Fire Department shall not render such services outside the corporate limits excepting upon orders of the Chief of the Fire Department or the Mayor; excepting that where the city has undertaken by contract to render services to property outside the corporate limits in fulfillment of such contract.
(Prior Code, § 33.010) (Ord. 88-144, passed 10-25-1988)