(a) Causing Fire Prohibited. 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 in such a manner as to endanger the safety of any person or property.
(b) Posting of Law. 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 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) Report of Fire; Spreading Alarm. It shall be the duty of the manager, owner or lessee, and of an employee of any manager, owner or lessee, and 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 diligency, to call or notify the Fire Division concerning such fire and to spread an alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.
(Ord. 1969-5. Passed 2-10-69.)