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CHAPTER 1590
Miscellaneous Regulations
1590.01   Posting arson laws.
1590.02   Setting fires which spread.
1590.03   Unfriendly fires in building; alarm duties.
1590.04   Disclosure of true Fire Safety Inspector status.
1590.05   Fire equipment sale or use; certification of installers.
1590.06   Storage, handling and use of liquefied petroleum gas; permit required.
1590.07   Underground gasoline or fuel oil storage tanks.
1590.08   Standards for safe practice.
1590.09   Environmentally dangerous materials; costs.
1590.10   Fire notices in high-rise apartments.
1590.11   Nonliability for testing private water supply.
1590.12   Foster home inspections.
1590.13   Adoptive home inspections.
1590.14   Resetting fire alarms; fire watch.
1590.15   Group home inspections.
1590.16   Fire hydrant permit.
1590.17   Vehicle impact protection.
 
1590.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Fire Department - see ADM. Ch. 143
   Arson - see GEN. OFF. 541.09
   Ohio Fire Code - see F.P. Ch. 1525
   Fire Districts - see F.P. Ch. 1531
   Open burning - see F.P. Ch. 1575
    Smoke detectors - see F.P. Ch. 1577
1590.01 POSTING ARSON LAWS.
   The owner, operator or lessee of any transient residential building shall post the provisions of Ohio R.C. 2909.02 and 2909.03 in a conspicuous place in each room occupied by guests in such building. The owner, operator or lessee of any nontransient residential building, institution, school or place of assembly shall post the provisions of such sections in conspicuous places upon such premises. No person shall fail to comply with this section.
(ORC 3737.61)
1590.02 SETTING FIRES WHICH SPREAD.
   No person shall set, kindle or cause to be set or kindled any fire, which, through his or her negligence, spreads beyond its immediate confines to any structure, field or wood lot.
(ORC 3737.62)
1590.03 UNFRIENDLY FIRES IN BUILDING; ALARM DUTIES.
   (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)
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