1505.01 Definitions.
1505.02 Report of fire; spreading alarm.
1505.03 Regulations to be posted.
1505.04 Causing fire through negligence in places of assemblage or lodging.
1505.05 Posting of the law.
1505.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to regulate against fires - see Ohio R.C. 737.21, 737.37
Investigation of fires - see Ohio R.C. 737.27, 3737.08
Right to examine buildings - see Ohio R.C. 737.34 et seq., 3737.14
Crowd control at fires - see GEN. OFF. 509.05
False alarms - see GEN. OFF. 509.07
Open burning - see GEN. OFF. 521.13
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Manager" means any person who is in direct charge of management of a building and present at the time of the discovery of an unfriendly fire on the premises.
(b) "Unfriendly fire" means a fire of a hostile or destructive nature as distinguished from a friendly fire as found in a stove, grate, furnace, etc.
(Ord. 68-114. Passed 8-5-68.)
It shall be the duty of a manager, owner or lessee and of any employee or agent of any manager, owner or lessee, and of any occupant or any person in direct control of rooming houses, apartments, hotels, motels, rest homes, department stores, theaters, auditoriums, schools, churches and other places of assemblage, upon 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 diligence, to call and notify the Fire Division concerning such fire, and to spread the alarm immediately to all occupants of the building.
(Ord. 68-114. Passed 8-5-68.)
No person shall, in any hotel, motel, rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, tenement house, convalescent home, hospital, school, church, child care facility or similar place of abode or assembly, by any means whatsoever, through carelessness, neglect or negligence, set fire to or cause burning of any bedding, furniture, rug, curtain, drape or other household furnishing or fitting, or any other part of such building or premises in such a manner as to endanger the safety of any person or property.
(Ord. 68-114. Passed 8-5-68.)
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