CHAPTER 94:  FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Section
Fire Control
   94.01   Open burning prohibited
   94.02   Attendance of open fire
   94.03   Time limitations
   94.04   Definitions
   94.05   Effective date
 
   94.99   Penalty
FIRE CONTROL
§ 94.01  OPEN BURNING PROHIBITED.
   No person shall start or have any open fires upon any woodlands, grasslands, field or public right- of-way within the Charter Township of Clayton, Genesee County, Michigan, whenever there be danger of the fire spreading beyond the control of the person so starting or having the open fire so as to injure, damage or endanger the life, limb or property of another.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)  Penalty, see § 94.99
§ 94.02  ATTENDANCE OF OPEN FIRE.
   No person who shall start or have any open fire upon any woodlands, grasslands, field or public right-of way within the Charter Township of Clayton, Genesee County, Michigan, shall leave the open fire unattended by a person of mature years until the fire shall have been completely extinguished.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)  Penalty, see § 94.99
§ 94.03  TIME LIMITATIONS.
   No person shall start or have any open fire upon any woodlands, grasslands, field or public right-of- way within the Charter Township of Clayton, Genesee County, Michigan, before sunrise nor later than ½ hour following sunset; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall prohibit any person who, having obtained the written permission of the Director of Conservation or other authorized conservation officer pursuant to Public Act 143 of 1943, § 7, as amended, from starting or having any open fire upon any woodlands, grasslands, field or public right-of-way within the Charter Township of Clayton, Genesee County, Michigan, before sunrise or later than ½ hour following sunset, so long as the written permission shall not specifically prohibit the starting or having of the open fire upon any woodlands, grasslands, field or public right-of-way within the Charter Township of Clayton, Genesee County, Michigan, before sunrise or later than ½ hour following sunset.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)
§ 94.04  DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   OPEN FIRE.   As used in the preceding sections of this subchapter,  any fire not wholly contained within an incinerator, outside fireplace, grill or other receptacle constructed for and suitable to the purpose of the burning of combustibles.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)
§ 94.05  EFFECTIVE DATE.
   This subchapter shall become effective on June 7, A.D. 1957.
(Ord. 3, passed - -)
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