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(a) The owner, operator or lessee, an employee of any owner, operator or lessee, an occupant, and any person in direct control of any building regulated under the Ohio Basic Building Code, upon the discovery of an unfriendly fire or upon receiving information that there is an unfriendly fire on the premises, shall immediately and with all reasonable dispatch and diligence call or otherwise notify the Fire Department concerning the fire and shall spread an alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “unfriendly fire” means a fire of a destructive nature as distinguished from a controlled fire intended for a beneficial purpose.
(c) No person shall fail to comply with this section.
(ORC 3737.63)
No person who is not a certified Fire Safety Inspector shall act as such or hold himself or herself out to be such unless, prior to commencing any inspection function, he or she discloses the purpose for which he or she is making such inspection and the fact that he or she is not employed by any state or local fire service or agency and that he or she is not acting in an official capacity for any governmental subdivision or agency.
(ORC 3737.64)
(a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or use any fire protection or fire-fighting equipment that does not meet the minimum standards established by the Ohio Fire Marshal in the Ohio Fire Code.
(b) Except for public and private mobile fire trucks, no person shall service, test, repair or install for profit any fire protection or fire-fighting equipment without a certificate issued by the Ohio Fire Marshal.
(ORC 3737.65)
Copies of the Ohio Fire Code, as adopted in § 1610.01, are on file with the Clerk of Council for inspection by the public. Copies are also on file in the County Law Library. In addition, the Clerk of Council has copies available for distribution to the public, at cost.
(a) The Ohio Basic Building Code shall supersede and govern any order, standard, rule or regulation of the Ohio Fire Code or the Division of State Fire Marshal, Department of Commerce, in all cases where any such order, standard, rule or regulation is in conflict with the Ohio Basic Building Code, except that rules adopted and orders issued by the Fire Marshal pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3743 prevail in the event of a conflict.
(OAC 4101:2-1-04(B); ORC 3781.11(B))
(b) In all other cases of conflict between the Ohio Fire Code and any other municipal ordinance or technical code adopted thereby, the stricter standard shall control.
(a) Criminal penalties.
(1) Whoever violates § 1610.05(a) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(ORC 3737.99(B))
(ORC 3737.99(C))
(ORC 3737.99(D))
(ORC 3737.99(E))
(b) Civil penalties.
(1) Any person who has received a citation for a serious violation of the Ohio Fire Code or any order issued pursuant to it shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each such violation.
(2) Any person who has received a citation for a violation of the Ohio Fire Code or any order issued pursuant to it, and such violation is specifically determined not to be of a serious nature, may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each such violation.
(3) Any person who fails to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued, within the period permitted for its correction, may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each day during which such failure or violation continues.
(4) Any person who violates any of the posting requirements prescribed by § 1610.04(c) shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation.
(5) Due consideration to the appropriateness of the penalty with respect to the gravity of the violation, the good faith of the person being charged and the history of previous violations shall be given whenever a penalty is assessed under this chapter.
(6) For purposes of this section, a serious violation shall be considered to exist if there is a substantial probability that an occurrence causing death or serious physical harm to persons could result from a condition which exists, or from one or more practices, means, methods, operations or processes which have been adopted or are in use, unless the person did not and could not, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the violation.
(7) Civil penalties imposed under this chapter shall be paid to the Clerk of Council for deposit into the General Fund. Such penalties may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the municipality brought in the Court of Common Pleas.
(ORC 3737.51(B) to (H))