(A) Traffic Limits At Fire Or Other Emergency: Whenever a fire or other emergency shall occur in the city, the fire chief or acting fire chief is hereby empowered during the continuance of such, and during/following investigation, to prescribe the limits within which it shall be unlawful for any person to come, excepting members of said fire company, and such other persons as may be specially admitted by the said chief or acting chief. It shall be the duty of such fire chief to plainly indicate such limits, either by stretching a rope thereon or erecting some other barrier sufficient to apprise the people of such limits, and it shall be unlawful for any person other than those above specified to enter within such limits at any time until same are removed. (Ord. 1189, 12-21-2004)
(B) Limit Of Approach To Fire: Any person not an officer of the city or acting fireman of the city, or any person not interested as owner or employee of the owner, in the property and goods at the location of any fire who shall occupy the grounds within fifty feet (50') of the fire, or who impedes the work of the firemen, or blockade the way to, from or around any fire shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 456, 9-4-1951; amd. 1981 Code)
(C) Driving Across Hose, Interference With Equipment Or False Alarm:
1. It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to ride or drive any horse or vehicle of any kind over or across any water hose belonging to the city while in use.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person other than the members of the regularly organized fire company of the city to handle or have in their possession or in any manner interfere with any of the fire apparatus used by the fire companies of the city, except at the express invitation or permission of the fire chief or acting fire chief of the city.
3. It shall be unlawful for any person to report or give warning that a fire actually exists when such fire does not exist, and the person giving such report knew or had knowledge that such fire was not in existence, and such report was false. (Ord. 456, 9-4-1951; amd. Ord. 592, 6-4-1956)